This week:

• To help celebrate our one-year anniversary, newly reelected Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has sent TGM a stack of boxes, each containing environmental pledges for the next four years. Jordan Poppenk and Kevin Farmer unwrap the I.O.U.s and discuss the key provincial environmental election promises that will be worth following.
• Kalin Stacey, who completed a 1,300km through the Alberta tar sands with a team of students from the Sierra Youth Coalition, describes what he and his colleagues learned from their journey, and what they achieved along the way.
  

The headlines in brief:

• The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada released a report removing the peregrine falcon and the sea otter from the endangered list, but added another 36 species;
• Ottawa will begin curbside organics collection in green bins starting in 2009;
• A conference in Halifax has convened to review what to do about thousands of tonnes of munitions that have been dumped into the world’s oceans over the past six decades;
• Two thirds of the 3,000 respondents in an Alberta survey said they favour limits to the province’s economic growth;
• Owners of small- and medium-sized enterprises across Canada are buying into the notion that growing the economy and protecting the environment can be done at the same time;
• The Federal Government announced a funding injection for Via Rail worth nearly $700 million over the next five years;
• The Commitment to Development index puts Canada at the bottom of 21 wealthy nations when it comes to its environmental policies.

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