While other governments are making plans to address the crisis, Saskatchewan and Alberta governments plant their heads firmly in the sand.

Global warming and climate change are in the news every day as the planet warms and weather events wreak havoc. We are in a climate crisis that can’t be ignored any longer.

The northern Ontario First Nations of Treaty 9 and several First Nations in Northern Manitoba have declared a state of emergency because global warming meant a late freeze-up and thin ice that is unable to bear the weight of the transport trucks that bring in food and building supplies.

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Each winter we hear of more and more tragedies where people fall through ice and drown.

Climate change and global warming result in drought on the Prairies and a smaller snowpack in the mountains. The summers now are hot and smoky as the forest fires rage in the forests of the north and the mountains.

While other governments are making plans to address the approaching crisis, the Saskatchewan and Alberta governments have planted their heads firmly in the sand.

The Saskatchewan government has decided to break the law and not remit the carbon tax on natural gas used for home heating. This is in response........

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