This week:

• Dr. Devra Davis, a cancer epidemiologist and Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, speaks with Danny Leskiw about the war on cancer, some missteps it has taken, and environmental causes of the problem.
• First-time correspondent Chris Berube speaks to Matthew Price, a spokesperson of Environmental Defense, about public environmental attitudes in Alberta and their eye-catching report last week about the tar sands, which described the project as the “most environmentally destructive project on earth.”

The headlines in brief:

• The 2008 federal budget includes two main environmental measures: $250 million for carbon capture technology and $500 million for public transit.
• The Conservatives’ much-criticized clean-car rebate program has been scrapped;
• A group that includes all major oil sands producers, the Cumulative Environmental Management Association, is asking Alberta to stop selling oil sands leases;
• Canada is overhauling its 18-year-old strategy on sustainable packaging and corporate responsibility;
• An endangered bird, the Roseate Tern, is affecting the fate of a $4-billion dollar energy project on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore;
• An Alaskan town north of the Arctic Circle has filed suit against 24 energy companies over erosion they say is caused by climate change.
• South Africa has announced that it is reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants, in an effort to control their numbers.

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