This week:

• In the lead up to the October 10th Ontario Elections, TGM brings you The Environment Bosses, Ontario’s first cross-section of environment critics and Ministers from the various provincial parties. In part one of this feature, Jordan Poppenk interviews NDP Environment Critic Peter Tabuns about his accomplishments and vision from the opposition. Part two will feature Environment Minsiter Laurel Broten (Liberal), Frank de Jong (Green), and Laurie Scott (PC).
• Peter Stock continues his discussion with Local Food Plus founder and president Lori Stahlbrand, asking about how food retailers are going local, whether the local food movement is elitist, a recent study that debunks some food miles myths, and whether the public is really ready to abandon strawberries in January.

The headlines in brief:

• Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended a major climate change summit in Washington to promote a contentious international plan based on intensity targets;
• The Ontario Clean Air Alliance has released a study indicating that Ontario could shut its four high-polluting, coal-fired power plants as early as 2010 if it wished;
• A report has revealed that Ontario’s water mains leak as much as 30 per cent of the drinking water they carry;
• Nova Scotia has designated a new nature reserve to protect more of the area’s ecological features and wildlife;
• The Quebec government is planning to ban phosphates in dishwashing detergents to curb its growing blue-green algae problem;
• According to a federally funded panel of business and environmental experts, the Conservative government is overestimating the amount of greenhouse-gas reductions that will be achieved through its programs;
• Temperature records were shattered this week in Toronto, Halifax and other Eastern municipalities for the hottest fall day since record-keeping began in 1840;
• An international sting operation has broken up a smuggling ring and netted 27 tonnes of an endangered shellfish.

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