In Canada, the British Columbia government in order to increase “food security” is handing out $200,000,000 to farmers in the province. Food insecurity, which means crazy high food prices, comes to us courtesy of the sequestration of the vast amounts …
Coming Economic Maelstrom Completely Unnecessary
With one action, in one week, the whole world will boom. I am sharply aware that the upper middle class, the people I grew up among, studied and worked with do not give a damn about the less fortunate. They …
Surviving Sustainability: Towards Enduring Prosperity
The first formal definition of “sustainability” was given by the 1987 Brundtland Report or, properly, the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability …
THE FAILURES OF FOREST CERTIFICATION AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC WEALTH OF THE CANADIAN NORTH
Today’s all-out assault by the combined forces of Canada’s powerful environmental movement on the so-called dirty oil of the oil sands has its precursor in recent history. The present environmental movement cut its teeth with its incursion into Canadian forestry, …
Save our private Land: Increasingly strict regulations limits land development
50,000 core rural jobs have been lost since environmental planning began Ten thousand careers in and out of the civil service have been dedicated to saving land, foundations founded, organizational fields devised and put into action. University departments and sustainability …
Process Over Product: The Failures of Sustainable Land-use Planning in Ontario – Appendix 6 & Appendix 8
View Appendix 8 Here View Appendix 6 Here.
Process Over Product – The Failures of Sustainable Land-use Planning in Ontario
For the past 150 years, the province of Ontario has been the primary driver of Canada’s collective wealth. However, since the early 1990’s, with the passing of five Acts in quick succession,1 an unacknowledged shift began. Through these and subsequent …
Who’s really endangered?
As the federal election looms, a hailstorm of criticism is being launched against the Harper government for its failure on environmental issues. Already, the media reports have informed us that we are not protecting our caribou. Canada is an international …
The Critical Need for Endangered Species Reform
As the federal election looms, a hailstorm of criticism is being launched against the Harper government’s failure on environmental issues. Already the media has informed us that we are not protecting our caribou and that Canada is an international pariah …
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