SMRs are hardly the clean technology needed for the next generation and they’re unlikely to turn a profit. This year, the federal government has made apparent its enthusiasm for the nuclear industry’s latest dream – small modular reactors (SMRs). Following up on an SMR “Action Plan” released last July, it recently provided a $20-million investment to an Oakville, ON-based […]
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has come to be defined by two things: its hesitant responses to the emerging second wave of COVID-19 and its relentlessly pro-business approach to virtually all other matters. The situation invites the question of whether the government’s stumbling reluctance to impose more restrictive measures to head off the growing numbers of […]
TORONTO, Nov 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When an oily sheen was discovered on the surface of the local water reservoir in October, Canada’s Neskantaga First Nation was forced to close off the pipes and move. Isolated in remote northern Ontario, accessible only by plane or on winter roads, nearly all 300 residents evacuated to […]
A paper out of York University is included in a special collection of Health Promotion Practice that focuses on health engagement, knowledge and participating in Indigenous communities. A journal of the Society for Public Health Education, Health Promotion Practice has curated eight papers published in 2020 that focus on Indigenous health, and has made the collection open access. The […]
(JTA) — Tzeporah Berman did not set out to be an environmental activist. Raised in a Jewish family outside Toronto, she dreamed of becoming a fashion designer and after high school moved into the city to enroll in a fashion arts design program at Ryerson University. Fast forward three decades and Berman, 51, is one […]
November 16-20 is Geography Awareness Week, an international celebration of Geography as a field of research and learning. Geography is an interdisciplinary discipline that brings together many forms of knowledge. Geographers seek to understand how space shapes, and is shaped by, social relations, and they study the physical processes and human impacts that create our […]
Rapid urbanization affects everyone, but women living in poverty represent a disproportionate percentage of the urban poor, bearing the brunt of housing and employment insecurity, inadequate transportation infrastructures, violence, and the climate crisis and other environmental disasters. Through research, public education and policy engagement in strategically chosen cities in the global south, Professor Linda Peake’s […]
Over the past five years a series of scandals concerning slave-like working conditions on fishing vessels have provoked global efforts to improve working conditions for fishery workers. Yet initiatives that seek to improve working conditions are hampered by a lack of empirical evidence and explanatory analysis of the dynamics that lead to such unacceptable working […]
Canada’s polar regions are under siege. Temperatures are warming more rapidly than elsewhere on Earth and model projections see this trend persisting well into the future. Ecosystems are being degraded and permafrost is melting. The effects of climate change and other global environmental phenomena, such as toxic containments, are drivers that challenge the integrity of […]
Ontario’s boreal forest is a large and heterogeneous area. Not only is it the most extensive of all vegetation types in Ontario (about 45 million hectares and representing 50% of the province), but it also includes at least 7 ecoregions due to its geo-climatic variability. Almost all of this boreal forest area, nearly 30 million […]