Published in The Conversation, The National Post, May 22, 2019 A few weeks ago, I was invited attended speech by federal environment and climate change minister Catherine Mckenna in Toronto on climate change and a number of other environmental issues. …
Monthly Archives: May 2019
With more oil to be shipped by rail, train derailments show enduring safety gaps
Published in The Conversation, National Post, and Winnipeg Free Press, February 28, 2019 With Bruce Campbell The recent runaway CP Rail train in the Rocky Mountains near Field, B.C., highlighted ongoing gaps in Canada’s railway safety regime, more than five …
Cooling the rhetoric on Canada’s environmental assessment efforts
Published in the Conversation, National Post and Calgary Herald, March 27, 2019 With Martin Olszynski (University of Calgary) and Deborah Curran (UVic) In the fall of 2018, we suggested that post-truth politics were sinking the debate with respect to Bill …
The Ford Doctrine in Action: Cutting Energy Conservation and Public Health
Published in the Conversation and National Post April 28, 2019 Although less than a year in office, the government of Ontario Premier Doug Ford has already demonstrated a remarkable talent for pursuing very short-term gains at the expense of very …