This week:

• Mary Pattenden, Director of the Climate Change program at Pollution Probe
• Karen Buck, member of Citizens for a Safe Environment and the drafting committee for the preparation of an environmental assessment on Toronto’s waste issue.

The headlines in brief:

• The federal government has released its Clean Air Act, which has been strongly criticized by environmentalists for setting no short-term goals on climate change;
• The Canada Youth Climate Coalition staged funerals across the country to protest the federal government’s inaction in climate change;
• Conservative Environment Minister Rona has raised eyebrows by citing a reduction of automobiles with no known source;
• The bikechain vote failed to reach quorum on University of Toronto campus;
• A study on women with breast cancer in Women has linked the onset of the disease to working in the agricultural and automotive industries;
• A Memorandum of Understanding has been established to begin work on an 8.3 million acre national park in the NW territories;
• Canada has assumed the controversial position of trying scuttle an international ban on deep-sea trawlers;
• Machine gun target practice by the US Coast Guard has been temporarily suspended among Canadian concerns about safety and lead pollution;
• The US population hit 300 million on Tuesday morning.

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