Canada’s decision to join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) is controversial in some circles. The NDP and Greens reject the organization and the Liberals say this decision has not yet been subjected to proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

“It's beyond me how this government continues to believe it has any environmental credentials. It's failing ...   more »

MTV boss Judy McGrath jokes to Reuters that she considered therapy after she discovered she had fallen asleep on her BlackBerry and Arianna Huffington predicts that the next big thing to hit the digital generation will be logging off. "Everybody's so overloaded," Huffington tells a reporter at MediaPost Publications. ...   more »

Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn just announced that Canada has joined the Global Nuclear Energy proejct — much to the dismay of the Green Party — and has also decided to look at all options for Atomic Energy Canada Ltd.

Here’s the release from NRCAN:

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Barbara Hayes is the 24–year-old National Director for the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. This week, she made a presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. While others there talked about science and policy, Hayes spoke about the emotional and generational impact of ...   more »

Prime Minister Harper will be in Newfoundland and Labrador tomorrow where he and Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams look end the biggest spat in Confederation since Eddie Shack looked the wrong way at John Ferguson.   more »

Liberal MP Mike Savage, who represents the Nova Scotia riding of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, got an e-mail from one his constitutents today. The correspondent’s spouse is serving on HMCS Toronto, which is steaming for its home port of Halifax right now after a mission with NATO's Standing NATO Maritime Group ...   more »

Fred Pearce, writes in The New Statesmen that warns about water shortages: Water consumption has tripled in the past 30 years and there's a growing danger that disputes over the most necessary of resources could erupt into violence.... In the past three decades the human population has doubled but human use of water has tripled – largely because, tonne-for-tonne, modern ‘high-yielding’ crop varieties often need more water than the old crops.

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The Friends of the Earth -- and many others, I should add -- believe that the Minister of the Environment, John Baird, has not done what the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act required and has broken the law of the land by failing to do so. And so yesterday The Friends of the Earth filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada asking for a judicial review of the conduct of Baird and cabinet...   more »

Martin: Well, Mr. Schreiber does not have the right to remain silent and that will have to be made known to him and how that's enforced remains to be seen but his rights and his obligations are different as a witness before a parliamentary committee than they are under a court of law.... Martin: Well, I'm having a meeting as soon as I walk away from this mic with the Speaker to on behalf of the committee to urge the Speaker to allow Mr. Schreiber to stay in his own home with access to his own papers and his own clothes.

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Andrew Cline, a journalism school professor at Missouri State University, puts out the challenge to professional journalists: When we get a chance to ask politicians something, we should be asking questions that tend to elicit information that actually matters to somebody:

Citizen journalists, bloggers, people who go to town hall ...   more »