This week:

• Science correspondent emeritus Sapna Sharma returns to interview Marty Krkosek, a graduate student at the University of Alberta and the lead author of a headline article in the journal Science on the contribution of fish farming to the collapse of wild salmon populations in British Columbia.
• We feature coverage of the D8 rallies held across the country in December in protest of the Federal government position taken on climate change at the international UN climate change summit in Bali. This segment includes speakers and interviews including, in order of appearance:
• Jen Hassum, Ontario Chairperson, Canadian Federation of Students
• Jack Layton, NDP Party Leader [interview]
• Bruce Cox, Executive Director, GreenPeace Canada [interview]
• Shamez Amlani, Streets are for People [interview]
• Misha Hamou, student, age 12
  

The headlines in brief:

• A advisory group commissioned by the federal government, NRTEE, has recommended a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system to fight climate change;
• Federal Environment Minister John Baird and Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner renounced the proposed carbon tax but not the suggested cap-and-trade system;
• Energy audit rebates promised to homeowners by the Ontario government have now been delayed by nearly a year;
• Huntingdon became the first Quebec municipality to implement a retail ban on plastic bags;
• A provinicial uranium moratorium in Nova Scotia, Canada’s only ban on uranium, is at risk;
• A new report from the Pembina Institute and World Wildlife fund ranked 10 oil sands companies in order of their sustainable practices, with Albian Sands Muskeg at the top and Syncrude and Synenco at the bottom;
• Strange weather patterns have swept the country for the first week of 2008, including heavy snowfall, balmy temperatures, heavy fog and dangerous winds;
• US officials say they will need more time to decide whether to list polar bears as threatened;
• The World Economic Forum says that the focus on climate change must not waver despite economic and geopolitical turmoil in the coming year;
• China will ban the production and distribution of thin plastic bags beginning on June 1st.

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