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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

John Robinson

John Robinson is a professor in the Institute for Environment, Resources and Sustainability and the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia.

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Clearing the Air on Climate Change

A new book goes a major distance but not far enough October 2007
What do Canadians want to know about climate change? Most are not, and don’t aspire to be, climate change experts. My guess would be that most Canadians, who the polls tell us are aware of and concerned about climate change, are happy to leave the details of the science to the scientists, but would like to know both how big a problem it is for this country and what can be done about…