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Megan is A\J’s editorial manager, a lover of journalism, and graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment. 

 

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The Accidental Optimist
BEING AN ENVIRONMENTALIST is not the easiest gig. A dedicated activist will constantly fight against oil companies worth more money than you can imagine, listen to apathetic citizens who won’t even...

Scapewolves
Last year British Columbia’s government launched a now-controversial program to kill wolves in the Peace and Selkirk Regions in order to protect the dwindling caribou population. The government has enlisted various...
Brian Craig | ERS375 Restoration Class of 2015

The Last Class
There is no master plan for how your post-secondary education should look. Go to university, go to college, go to college before university, do both. Get a master’s and a...

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Last Chance
The final hours of climate change negotiations in Paris are looming. Having wrapped up Thursday night’s session at 6 am Friday morning, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has conceded that...
Everything is at Stake for Canada’s Youth
For a self-dubbed Minister of Youth, Justin Trudeau has yet to really impress the Canadian Youth Delegation (CYD) at UN climate negotiations in Paris. 17 young Canadians are in Paris...
ExxonMobil on Trial
There was nothing “mock” about it. Canadian journalist Naomi Klein and American founder of 350.org Bill McKibben served as co-council in the trial of ExxonMobil. One of the biggest oil...
A Love Letter from the Earth
Inside Petit Palais in Paris, activists, artists, politicians, science and tech companies gathered to send a love letter from Earth to Paris. In the months before the start of COP21,...
Adhering to the Laws of Nature
It is easier to adjust human created rules than it is to override the laws of nature. Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein borrowed a set of that piece of...
Bill McKibben
Repair Work Ahead
Canada’s reputation at global climate talks has gone downhill over the last decade, and we have a lot of work to do in order to repair that. Last July, US...
McKenna says Canada is Back
The 90-day countdown is almost on for Trudeau to meet his election promise of developing new emissions targets post-COP21. The day before the UN climate negotiations’ official start, Ministers Catherine...
Paris in a Nutshell
The last time a major global climate agreement was on the table was at 2009’s COP15 in Copenhagen. The Copenhagen discussions failed to reach the expected agreement and were almost...
Marching On
The recent attacks in Paris led French President Francois Hollande to bar all protests in the city surrounding the UN climate talks, including the Global Climate March, which expected to...
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Canada’s Fair Share
Canada has a lot of catching up to do in terms of mitigating global climate change. That’s the main message of Climate Action Network Canada’s (CANC) Road Map to Paris,...