This week:

• We feature coverage of a rally organized by Environmental Defense at the Ontario Legislature calling for a ban on the compound Bisphenol A. Jordan Poppenk interviews with Dr. Pete Myers, medial biologist, Peter Tabuns, newly-reelected Ontario NDP environment critic, and Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defense. Sign Environmental Defense’s online petition to ban Bisphenol A in Canada.
• Jordan Poppenk is joined in conversation by Jonny Dovercourt, Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, editors of GreenTOpia, who speak about their freshly minted volume of environmental essays for Toronto and area.
• Tia Maryanne Kim makes her first appearance on TGM to cover Canadian municipal and provincial news.

The headlines in brief:

• The federal government has announced that it will set aside 25.5 million acres in the north for use as two new conservation areas;
• The Quebec government said it would buy a large parcel of land slated for residential development on Île Charron;
• Ontario will appoint a panel of medical experts to study and potentially bad toxins found in consumer products such as bisphenol A;
• A coalition of environment groups, claims over 45,000 migratory bird nests, are being destroyed in Ontario every year, due to oversight, and lack of government funding;
• Researchers have found a parasite that was present in all 446 Ontario bee samples they analyzed;
• Shell Canada experienced two independent incidents involving releases of sour gas in Alberta in the same day;
• New BC legislation would mandate 33 per cent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

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