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The article reports on the impact that various policies adopted by the United States have had on Canada's social and economic well-being. The author cites protectionist American trade rules and environmental regulations as being detrimental to the Canadian economy. Also examined is the relationship between Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and U.S. president Barack Obama.

In this article the author discusses U.S. president Barack Obama and suggests that his policies could be detrimental to Canada, particularly to the Canadian economy. The central issue in this contention is the impact of Obama's environmental policy on Canada's oil sands excavation, a significant source of Canadian export revenue.

The article examines environmental practices in Canada current in April 2008. According to the author Canada's environmental record is not good, the country reported to consume significant amounts of natural resources to produce considerable pollution. Reported is Canada's record on a number environmental issues including water consumption, greenhouse gas emission and energy conservation.

This article reports on the natural resources in Canada and the dilemma surrounding the use and abuse of them. Canadians have let their harvesting of natural products dwindle as they tried to diversify industry, but many countries around the world are expanding their imports of natural products. The Conference Board of Canada's "Canada Project" seeks to address the issues in the forestry, mining and agri-food industries, among others.

Our battered planet has many wounds, World Wildlife Fund Canada notes this week in its first-ever 'Nature Audit,' a 104-page document subtitled 'Setting Canada's Conservation Agenda for the 21st Century.' The wide-ranging study, borrowing from the world of accounting, tallies Canada's natural capital. It takes stock of our present-day environmental "equity," and compares what's left to the situation prior to European settlement, circa 1500-1600. The 'Nature Audit' concludes that the way we've accounted for nature in the past -- by basically ignoring its destruction -- is a recipe for bankrupting biodiversity. Still, there's room for optimism -- if we're prepared to take action. Several industries and individuals are already finding sustainable solutions to our seemingly perpetual problems. Plans for the gas pipeline in the pristine Mackenzie Valley are taking the environment and Aboriginal peoples into account as never before in this country. To build on this momentum, we have to get away from the myth that Canada is a sprawling swath of untouched landscapes. Despite repeated government promises to turn things around, the natural environment is under siege all across inhabited Canada. In the spring 2000 federal budget, then-finance minister Paul Martin asked an independent advisory body, the Ottawa-based National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, to devise indicators to track the impact that our century-old economic practices have on our natural and human assets. In a report released on May 12, the organization called on Ottawa to make profound changes to the way it keeps the books. To account for the true state of the economy, the report says, federal budgets need six additional indicators -- air pollution, water quality, wetland extent, forest cover, greenhouse gases, public education -- to add meaning to popular yet insufficient indicators like gross domestic product.

Discusses Canada's role in the Kyoto, Japan conference on international greenhouse gas emissions. The expectation that Canada would have signed any agreement resulting from the meeting; The resulting Canadian target for reduction of gas emissions; Concessions won by Canada.

Focuses on the enormous environmental cleanup bill that Canadian industry faces. Confusion over who pays for what; Ever-changing demands from regulators; Cleanup bill could exceed 20 billion dollars; Canadian economy is particularly vulnerable because of its reliance on natural resources; The Bata case. INSET: Getting the lead out.;Canada's dirty dozen and how they got that.

Considers why Canadian companies are turning to environmental auditors in the wake of higher costs for cleaning up contaminated soil. Escalation of the problem; Environmental audits described; Caveats about environmental auditing. INSET: The insurance crunch..

The article examines the climate change mitigation policies of U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada. An advantage possessed by Obama in reaching targets he and Harper have set for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions is examined in which possible regulations on coal-fueled power plants in the U.S. are relatively easier and less economically costly to impose than would be restrictions on Canada's shale oil and gas industries.

The article focuses on the impact that visible climate change is having on Canadian politics and elections. It comments on wildfires and extreme weather events and criticism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for failing to discuss the impact climate change is having on humanity. It talks about comments from Liberal Party and Green Party politicians and the role attribution science has played in encouraging political discourse on climate change.

The author discusses citizen participation in government in Canada, and argues that Canadians should rant more and express strong opinions to politicians. The 2012 Canadian federal budget is discussed, which included provisions for allowing the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to operate in Canada and changes to environmental regulations. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's proposal to change the Canadian national anthem "O Canada" is also mentioned.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the May 7, 2007 issue, including cover story “Harper Embraces the Nuclear Future," about Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's environmental policy; crime story "The Master Seducer," about the sentencing of convicted child molester John Inglis; and the editorial “Protect the Taliban?" about the handling of prisoners in Afghanistan.

Discusses whether the North American Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Mexico has improved the economy in Canada. Anti-globalization issues that brought protesting activists to the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico on September 14, 2003; Focus on the 1990s in which the aim of NAFTA was to increase trade liberalization and investment within the continent; Statistics on trade between the U.S. and Canada, up to 2002; Environmental policy problems caused by the NAFTA side accord; Mention of complaints filed under Chapter 11, the NAFTA investment protection clause; Concern about deepening economic relations between the U.S. and Canada.

Discusses the plight of Bill Enouy, the mayor of Ontario, to keep Kirkland Lake safe from disposal projects. Efforts of farmers and local residents to oppose a plan to build a plant to treat soil contaminated by industries; Consideration of how the gold mines closed; Environmental assessment of the lake; Proposal from Bennett Environmental Inc. to build a soil-treatment facility in the environmental solutions park.

The article criticizes Canadian provincial policy on climate change. Audits of Manitoban, British Columbian, and Ontarian provincial government reveal systemic failures to adequately compose and implement climate action plans, resulting in predictable failure to meet climate and emission goals including the establishment of a carbon pricing scheme.

Reports on a classic modern conflict--ecology versus economy--acted out on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Protest against the levelling of old-growth temperate rain forest; How battle over the logging at Clayoquot Sound has grown from a local quarrel into a national issue.

Discusses Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard's discussion paper, titled `The Green Plan,' on Canada's environmental policies. Policy options and lack of concrete proposals; Public consultation process; Comments by Bouchard's supporters and criticism from environmentalists. INSET: `This is not an action plan' (interview with Bouchard), by L....

Discusses Canadians' concern for environmental issues. Examines environmental issues and government policies in several provinces. British Columbia; Quebec; Ontario; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Oldman River concert; Environmentalists' use of the courts. INSET: `I understand impatience' by L. Van Dusen (interview with....

The article looks at the effort by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to protect the environment. It compares the environmental policies of Trudeau and his successor, Stephen Harper. Also discussed are the measures to regulate emissions, the 2015 environmental platform of the Liberal Party and the challenge in fulfilling Trudeau's environmental promise.

The article focuses on the failure of the Canadian Liberal Party to enforce public interests and instead act in the best interests of industry and capital. It states Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned on environmental policy in 2015, but in 2019 Canada is the largest per-capita Group-of-Seven Nation contributor to subsidies for oil and gas, and won't meet the 2030 targets of the Paris Agreement. It comments the Liberal Party embraces centrist views instead of enacting policies voters want.

The article discusses environmental policy under the administration of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Canada and Canadian participation in the United Nations global climate talks in Paris, France. Emphasis is given to topics such as climate funding for developing countries, targets for reductions of carbon emissions, and the role of provincial governments in addressing climate change.

An interview is presented with climate change activist Tim Flannery, author of the books "Atmosphere of Hope" and "The Weather Makers." He discusses the potential for a greenhouse gas mitigation agreement at the planned December 2015 international climate change summit. Other topics energy and climate change mitigation policies in Australia and Canada and possible strategies for carbon sequestration.

The article looks at environmental policy in Canada in the context of the 2015 Canadian election campaign, focusing on environmental issues along the country's west coast, in British Columbia. It says that support for the Green Party has increased in coastal locations such as Vancouver Island, citing concerns about potential environmental problems caused by oil pipelines and tankers. Strategic voting for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in order to defeat Conservative Party candidates is cited.

The article looks at the statements of politicians about environmental policy and Canada's petroleum industry in the country's election campaign. It discusses remarks by New Democratic Party (NDP) parliamentary candidate Linda McQuaig, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, and Conservative Party Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The article focuses on Justin Trudeau, leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, and his proposed carbon pricing schemes in the Canadian petroleum market, known as the Canada Green Transfer. Topics include the petroleum industry within Canada in 2015, Trudeau's carbon tax, and public opinion of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The authors argue that British Columbia (B.C.) Premier Christy Clark is correct to stop increases in B.C.'s carbon tax. Topics include criticism of Clark by environmental activists, the creation of a cap-and-trade system in Quebec that may be joined by Ontario, and the impact of a carbon tax on economic growth.

The article looks at environmental assessment of proposed mining projects in Canada, as of 2013. It outlines the adoption of the 2012 Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA), saying it was designed to streamline assessments and prevent project delays. It discusses Taseko Mines's proposed Prosperity Mines project in British Columbia, whose review under the CEAA is due to be completed in November 2013.

The article looks at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth report on global warming, released in October 2013, and its likely impact on governments' climate change policies, focusing on Canada. The author says that Canada has taken few significant steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Topics include carbon taxes and the Keystone XL petroleum pipeline.

The article discusses government policy in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada regarding energy industries and oil projects as of July 2013. Topics include the rejected proposal for the construction of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline by the pipeline transport company Enbridge; environmental policy regarding the oil industry in B.C.; and conditions for oil projects as stated by B.C. Premier Christy Clark.

The article discusses environmental policy in Canada as of April 2013, with information on the pending approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and government policy in the U.S. on climate change. Topics include Canadian policy on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions; the growth of Canada's oilsands industry; and the oil industry in Alberta, Canada.

In this article the author remarks on criticisms of the environmental policies of Quebec expressed by the Conservative Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) Jim Prentice. He states his agreement with Prentice that Quebec should support national greenhouse gas emissions standards rather than adopting its own policies. He notes that greenhouse gas emissions in Quebec increased by four percent in 2007.

The article looks at Canadian climate change policies at the provincial and national levels. It reports on a planned meeting of incoming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the premiers of the provinces to discuss climate change policy and notes province-level policy initiatives including a carbon tax in British Columbia and a carbon cap-and-trade system in Quebec. Incoming Canadian Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna is cited.

The article profiles incoming Liberal Party Canadian Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, outlining her career and discussing challenges she faces in the position including preparing for the November 2015 international COP-21 conference on climate change.

This article discusses software from Carbonetworks Corp., which assists executives in planning for future environmental compliance regulations by mapping out corporate carbon footprints. This subscription based service will be useful as anticipated caps on carbon emissions and markets for trading emissions allowances are designed. The utility of this software in quantifying the financial advantages of different approaches to pollution mitigation is discussed.

In this article the author profiles John Baird, the cabinet officer in charge of the environment in the government of Stephen Harper and said to be a close adviser to the prime minister. His pugnacious character and unsubtle political manner are described. Baird's appointment to oversee environmental policy is said to have erased a perceived weakness in the Conservative Party government.

The article discusses the political relationship between Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and National Democratic party (NDP) leader Jack Layton. Layton may influence Harper on an environmental bill called the Clean Air act. Layton's campaign success may lie in climate change policy. The article suggests that while Harper has redefined the Conservative party, the left has suffered more divisions. Layton's campaign strategies, which include ceasefire talks with the Taliban, are given.

This article presents an interview with St&phane Dion, the Liberal party leader of Canada. In December 2006, Dion was elected into office. Interview topics include diplomacy, human rights violations in China and Sudan, Canadian peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan, environmental issues, and the role of Prime Minister.

This article focuses on the efforts of Canada to develop a trading platform for greenhouse-gas emission credits. Steve Teller is a man whose job is on hold. He's project manager of the Canadian Climate Exchange, a company that the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange formed two years ago to develop a trading platform for greenhouse-gas emissions credits, which corporations will be able to buy and sell in order to meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. There is a small swarm of brokers, consultants, fledgling exchanges and other entrepreneurial companies expecting that Canada's Kyoto commitments--to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012--will spawn a new industry around the trading of emission credits. A trading system gives businesses that face pollution restrictions the choice of paying the government for credits, subsidizing emission reduction projects elsewhere, or paying for internal measures that reduce emissions, whichever is cheaper. These are companies in the electricity generation, oil and gas, mining and heavy manufacturing industries, which together are expected to produce about half of Canada's total greenhouse-gas emissions by 2010. The Kyoto Protocol went into effect on Feb. 16, and yet Canada's plan to meet its steep--some say impossible--emission reduction obligations is still not fully known.

Offers information concerning energy conservation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Automobiles that are fuel-efficient, according to Natural Resources Canada, such as the Honda Insight, Volkswagen New Beetle TDI, Toyota Echo Hatchback, Chevrolet Malibu Maxx, and others; The advantages of manual transmissions, carpools, and block heaters.

The article focuses on Hanfeng Evergreen Co. Hanfeng nursery company, which joined the TSX in September after trading on the Venture Exchange for more than a year, is taking advantage of China's stated commitment to becoming more environmentally friendly. It's also using its Canadian connection to bring the latest landscape and fertilizer know-how into a country that is only now acknowledging the importance of going green. China's goal is to increase spending on environmental protection to as much as 5% of GDP. With the approaching Beijing Olympics, in 2008 and Shanghai Expo, in 2010, Chinese municipalities are dramatically increasing spending on urban landscaping. Chief operating officer Zhao Peiyong notes that many of the mature trees Hanfeng plants in China's parks and boulevards are actually from Canada, quite an accomplishment when you consider the difficulties in shipping them across the Pacific. It now has nurseries in Beijing, Shanghai and Dalian in the northeast, and plans to start up more as business expands to new locations in China. The founder of Hanfeng, president and CEO Yu Xinduo, was among the first Chinese entrepreneurs to realize the business opportunity behind China's urban greening movement in the lead-up to its successful bid for the 2008 Olympics, which was sold to the International Olympic Committee as "the green Olympics." Realizing the potential that comes with the fact that there are more than 600 cities in China, most with virtually no grass or landscaping, Yu expanded Hanfeng into lawn-care equipment and fertilizer, and secured distribution rights for North American suppliers of landscaping products.

Presents international news briefs as of December 30, 2002. Political violence in Venezuela, where the political opposition is standing off against President Hugo Chávez; Dropping of the charge of creating a disturbance against Sandra Brown Turner, an airport security guard at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario; Announcement of the Raelian cult that they have produced the first human clone; Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol environmental treaty by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

The 19th annual Maclean's year-end poll, prepared in partnership with Global Television and the newspapers of CanWest Publications, was conducted between Nov. 1 and 12 by Toronto-based The Strategic Counsel. The sparsity of population does not permit polling with the same degree of accuracy in the territories. National results, adjusted to take into account a disproportionate number of interviews in the smaller provinces, are considered accurate to within 3.1 percentage points 19 times out of 20. Numbers have been rounded off and, in most cases, "don't know" and no-answer responses are not shown. Figures represent percentage of respondents. Topics in the poll include general attitudes, the economy, corporate governance, the environment, global warming, foreign relations, and terrorism.

Reports on the stance of the citizens of Alberta, Canada with regards to the Kyoto Protocol, proposed environmental legislation. Suggestions from Albertans about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; Consideration of how the Canadian government decided to rid of a panel of experts who decide which drugs should be publicly delisted; Views from nationalist Mel Hurtig from Edmonton, Alberta.

Discusses the environmental situation in Ontario, Canada. History of environmental policy in Ontario; Poor ranking as of 1999 in North America's worst polluting states and provinces; Comments of independent environment commissioner Eva Ligeti; Comments of Ontario Premier Mike Harris; Programs designed to combat the pollution problem in Ontario.

Reports on the lack of progress in forming a federal-provincial accord on greenhouse gases as of November 1997. The backsliding of many officials on important issues as the World Environment Summit in Kyoto, Japan approaches; The main issues of contention; Profile of Canada's record on greenhouse gas emissions.

Discusses how environmentalists in Canada feel that Earth Week is an opportune time to warn Canadians about the government's plans to deregulate industries. Impact voluntary systems will have on industries and the environment; Argument that moving away from deregulation could push environmental protection back nearly half a century; Ways the government is looking to economize.

Reports on reaction to the Conservative government's long-awaited strategy for Canada's environment, the so-called Green Plan. Lack of specifics and other criticism; $3 billion cost; Environment Minister Robert de Cotret's proposals; Proposals of the plan; Obstacles to any new laws or taxes.

Analyzes the Canadian federal government's struggle to produce and environmental Green Plan. Unpopularity of the Conservative government; Environment Minister Robert de Cotret; Recession versus the cost of environmental action; Saskatchewan Court's decision to throw out a federal application for an injunction to halt work on the Rafferty-Alameda dam project; Outline of the Green Plan.

Assesses the environmental records of Canada's ten provincial governments. The provinces are rated according to the size of environmental ministry budgets, the numbers of inspectors, etc.

Reports on Canadians' and Americans' attitudes concerning environmental issues and the economic costs of cleaning up the environment. While citizens of both nations are alarmed about pollution, Americans are less willing to sacrifice individual freedom for the sake of a cleaner environment. `Maclean's'/Decima `Two Nations' poll results; Americans' love affair with the automobile; Tap water; Air quality.