Dear Ottawa, please recognize that we live on planet Earth

The federal government released its draft Sustainable Development Strategy in January, but the word 'Earth' does not appear once in the 22,000-word document. Go figure.
Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin, pictured on Dec. 1, 2025, at the House Environment Committee, released the federal government's draft 2026-2029 sustainable development strategy on Jan. 12, 2026.

VICTORIA, B.C.—Thirty-nine years ago, Gro Harlem Brundtland, then-prime minister of Norway and chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, presented the commission's report to the United Nations. That report, Our Common Future—widely referred ...

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