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Join us Thursday, Dec. 15 at 8 a.m. ET for a livestream conversation with EU Commissioner for the Environment Virginijus Sinkevičius and Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. 

Independent Sen. Rosa Galvez was struck by the influence lobbyists have on environmental regulation and the imbalanced nature of government consultations when she joined the Senate in December 2016.

A Facebook page identifying itself as a non-profit organization that discusses issues pertaining to a town in the Greater Toronto Area is linked to the same right-wing political operatives behind a slew of purportedly grassroots community pages across the country.

The first Conversations event of 2022 is happening this Thursday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. PST / 10 p.m. EST. Linda Solomon Wood, David Beers, Gregg Howald and Andy S. Wright will discuss ecological restoration around the globe.

On Thursday afternoon, Canada’s National Observer hosted what deputy managing editor David McKie described as a “kitchen table” discussion on Canada’s path to a net-zero future.

Valérie Courtois and Dahti Tsetso, director and co-director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, join Canada’s National Observer founder and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood for a Conversations event on May 13 at 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET.

Join Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna and Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on May 4 for a Conversations event about climate-focused infrastructure spending and Canada's future.

Mark Jaccard, author of 'The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success,' will join Canada’s National Observer founder and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on April 8 for an exclusive Conversations event.

Writer and activist Julian Brave NoiseCat joins Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on March 11 for a conversation on grassroots organizing as a path to power.

Sophie Brochu isn’t one to shy away from a fight, and now the president and chief executive officer of Hydro-Québec is facing two: both climate change and a cantankerous oil and gas industry determined to go kicking and screaming into obscurity.

Former MP Ethel Blondin-Andrew says Indigenous people have the know-how but lack resources to help mitigate climate change.

On Thursday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, Blondin-Andrew will join Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood in the year’s first Conversations event to look at how Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship across the country are creating jobs, strengthening food security and inspiring youth.

Chomsky avoids the trap of blaming America's woes on a single politician, no matter how destructive and venal.

James Comey says he was so concerned about Donald Trump that he chronicled their conversations in notes, later tipped off the media about those notes to force the appointment of a special investigator