Canada and the European Union have reached an historic agreement to recognize each other’s organic standards and laws, after nearly four years of formal negotiation. This is the world’s second such agreement. In June 2009, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the United States Department of Agriculture signed the very first “organic equivalency arrangement,” which […]

A recent report detailing the geothermal energy resource potential in Canada confirms that “geothermal energy, as a renewable energy source, not only provides a clean and renewable option for electricity generation around the clock, but also efficient and competitive heating options for Canadians all over Canada.” Alexander Richter, director of the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association, […]

A new Greenpeace ranking report shows all eight of Canada’s major supermarket chains are making progress on implementing sustainability policies that will help reduce the burden on some of the most commercially popular – but unsustainably harvested – seafood species.   The third annual report on seafood sustainability, “Emerging from the deep: Ranking supermarkets on […]

Why is it that our collective social intelligence on so many critical matters falls dramatically short of our individual citizen intelligence? It is amazing that our society can function as well as it does, given that we are in a state of continuous denial about so many things we do as a society. It feels […]

The retiring baby boom generation and a declining population are creating a war for talent as businesses compete for employees, according to a new survey. Over half of Canadian employees (57 per cent) recognize this trend to have a direct impact on their careers, Randstad’s latest Global Workmonitor survey revealed. Chinese employees feel this most […]

An attempt is underway to reverse a decline in honey bee colony populations. More than $244,000 in federal government money will be given to the Ontario Beekeepers’ Association to develop new strategies to help reverse the decline. The project aims to help beekeepers secure sustainable honey harvests and provide essential pollination services to the fruit […]

The wait is over: your bills and unwanted flyers will begins arriving in Nelson today. Canada Post deliveries will resume Tuesday after a month of postal disputes between Canada Post and its 48,000 employees. After the Commons and Senate gave approval to Bill C-6 — ordering locked-out postal employees back to work — on the […]

Reuters, GENEVA Chrysotile asbestos will not be listed as a hazardous industrial chemical that can be banned from import after countries including Canada and Ukraine blocked consensus, a United Nations spokesman said Friday. The decision was taken at a meeting of states that have ratified the Rotterdam Convention despite the treaty’s scientific review body having […]

New data released today from the 2010 National Physician Survey (NPS) shows that, in spite of improvements in some areas, Canada’s doctors are finding it increasingly challenging to meet the changing health care needs of the ever growing number of Canadians living with chronic and complex medical conditions. Of the approximately 12,000 practicing physicians who […]

Half of all Canadian employees are disengaged at their work. That message comes through loud and clear in a new survey, conducted over the past two quarters among nearly 30,000 workers in 17 countries, including more than 2,000 workers in Canada (not including workers from the public sector). Slightly more than one in three (36 […]