This week:

• MP Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale) speaks with political corespondent Danny Leskiw about the Liberal Green Shift Carbon Tax Proposal.
• Engineering correspondent Nicholas Wood interviews Professor David Keith, Director of the ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group at the University of Calgary, who speaks about the frightening last-resort measures scientists are cooking up “just in case” of a climate catastrophe.
• Danny Leskiw is featured as this week’s guest host.

The headlines in brief:

• The Conservative government muted the release of a major Health Canada report, warning of the dire health consequences of climate change on Canadians.
• A private members’ bill was given royal assent this week that requires all civil servants to meet particular carbon standards in all decision-making, and to give every decision a “green screen”.
• The Western Climate Initiative (WCI), which will include a cap and trade carbon market for all member states, was founded this week, with BC, Manitoba, Quebec and seven American states signing on. Ontario announced later in the week that it intended to join the initiative as well.
• The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, meanwhile, rejected the WCI this week, saying a cap-and-trade system would never be practical nationally as it disproportionately hurts energy rich provinces.
• EU puts restrictions on the import of Canadian seal pelts, saying they will reserve a right to reject any pelts they feel may have involved unnecessary animal cruelty.
• The Greater Vancouver Area passed a raft of by-laws this week requiring consumers to pay for almost all kinds of carbon emissions, and to pay for the use of any toxic chemicals in the country’s strongest “polluter pays” legislation.
• Liberal leader Stephane Dion announced this week plans to impose trarrifs on imports from the worst polluting countries.
• Ottawa is being urged to curb mine waste in tailing ponds after a new report shows the waste to exist at all-time high levels across the country.

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