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The Ontario Endangered Species Act (ESA), a law without friends in power
2013-04-10  |  Dan McDermott

Sierra Club Ontario was a strong supporter of the Ontario Endangered Species Act from the moment that the McGuinty Government proposed it. We worked with our environmental community colleagues to help fine tune it and I deputed before a Queen’s Park committee in support of the ESA. Was the final product perfect? No it was not, but at least we had a species protection act that attempted to be comprehensive and had some basis in science. Those were the good old days.

 


Now we are faced with a situation in which the stewards of the ESA, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), are proposing these sweeping changes to the Act:

·         A five-year exemption for all logging operations, affecting a 45 million hectare area

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Volunteer opportunities: April/May and more
2013-04-05  |  Kristina Jackson
First, we are happy to help you bloggers & writers out there get published on our website. If this is your particular interest please email shaimaa@sierraclub.ca to put you on that email list. Second, If you are interested in our Natural Capital project (online info at: http://ontario.sierraclub.ca/en/missnatcap) we are doing some volunteer training. We will be doing at least 8 walks & talks around natural areas in Mississauga in 2013. The schedule is flexible  - we are setting the dates now. If you commit to volunteer (in any capacity: leading, assisting, promoting, etc...) Sierra Club will train you on the basics of ecological goods & services as well as a bit of naturalist skills. Please email kristinaj@sierraclub.ca if you...
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Mississauga's Natural Capital: The Foundation of Our Health and Well Being
2013-03-27  |  Kristina Jackson
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Water Weak
2013-03-26  |  Jeff Alan

By Jeff Alan

TVO's annual Water Week has passed, which doesn't mean you missed it; Every week is water week with internet content availability. Get on over there! I tried to get the “Quench” app (http://thewaterbrothers.ca/quench), but it doesn't seem to want anything to do with my aging cell phone. 

After watching 'White Water, Black Gold' (http://www.whitewaterblackgold.com/), I guess it was a reasonable precursor to Monday morning's leak of waste water into the Athabasca River thanks to Suncor (in Financial Post here).

The Financial Post piece...

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(ICE) BREAKING NEWS...
2013-03-23  |  John Bennett

By John Bennett

I'm often asked to explain why people should support Sierra Club Canada? “Because we provide one of the best, most up-to-date sources of information on issues impacting the Canadian environment,” I often reply.

For example, late last night I received a high-priority email from our in-house climate expert Paul Beckwith (Paul is a climatologist, physicist and part-time professor with the University of Ottawa). In his email Paul wrote: “John, it’s urgent you see the new NASA satellite visualization of the cracking sea ice between February 17th and March 18th…this has never happened before! Normally the ice just melts at the outer edges but in this case almost the entire ice sheet is on the move and breaking up (which is indicative of the extreme thinness, and slushiness, and weakness of the ice). March is always the time of year when the ice should be strongest ... this is REALLY bad news!

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