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- Academics Urge Government Climate Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
- Bhopal: The Inside Story
Carbide Workers Speak Out on the World's Worst Industrial Disaster
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
An account of the disaster in Bhopal, India.
- Bhopal's Fight for Memory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In December, 1984, unknown poisonous gases burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled for possible closure, was understaffed, not maintained adequately, and had already seen prior deaths from exposure to leaks.
- Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Des jeunes participent à une occupation pacifique pour la justice climatique à l'intérieur du Comité sur l'Environement de la Chambre des Communes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Six jeunes ont entrepris une occupation pacifique à l'intrieur du Parlement canadien, à
l'occasion d'une rencontre du Comité permanent de l'environnement et du
développement durable dans l'édifice du centre.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC.
- Walkerton Tragedy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Brief overview of the Walkerton water contamination incident.
- Youth Stage Peaceful Sit-in for Climate Justice inside House of Common's Environment Committee
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Six youth staged a peaceful sit-in inside the Canadian parliament, at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, pledging to stay until the Harper government acts to combat the climate crisis.
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