Enbridge calls Line 5 “as good as new” and says it can last “forever,” even though the pipeline has failed at least 33 times since 1968, spilling more than 1.1 million gallons of oil in Michigan and Wisconsin, write Maude Barlow and Jim Olson.
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a huge spotlight on the water crisis as half the world's population does not have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water.
We could curb every greenhouse gas emission in the world tomorrow but we would still have a global water crisis, writes Maude Barlow. She suggests it's wrong to blame climate change alone for the flooding in Eastern Canada.
It’s time to put the selfie sticks down. The Trudeau government is following in Stephen Harper's footsteps and promoting the extractive industry as the driver of jobs.