Green Jobs

A Green New Deal for all will ensure that transformation is carried out equitably, that it is rooted in climate justice principles, that it centres the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and that it creates over a million jobs in the process. Read more.

NEWS: Barlow on Japan’s WTO challenge to Ontario’s Green Energy Act

The Toronto Star reports today that, "Japan’s trade challenge Monday of the McGuinty government’s green energy program could mean lost ...

NEWS: Ontario’s Green Energy Act prompts ‘trade’ concerns

The Japanese news agency Kyodo News International reports that, "Japan will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization against ...

Canada-EU free trade and the Ontario Green Energy Act

Two weeks ago I spoke about the trade threats to Ontario's Green Energy Act at a Centre for Civic Governance ...

European Greens, United Left take aim at Canada-EU trade agreement

While Canadians sit around in the dark on Harper's free trade talks with Europe, European parliamentarians are grilling our government ...

On the road in Nova Scotia for Green Jobs

Thanks to the generous invitation of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network (NSEN, http://www.nsen.ca), I’ve spent yesterday and today in a ...

VIEW: ‘Green collar jobs vital to Nova Scotia’, say Lorincz and Harden-Donahue

Tamara Lorincz, the executive director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network, and Andrea Harden-Donahue, energy campaigner with the Council of ...

UPDATE: New report launched on green jobs and the public sector

Andrea Peart and Andrea Harden-Donahue present the report to a media breakfast I wanted to draw your attention to energy ...

Green Decent and Public: New report launched on green jobs and the public sector

Right now, the world is facing a climate and economic crises. Without urgent action for a transition to low carbon ...