Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You can be insured for almost anything if you pay enough for the premium, but if the insurance industry isn't willing to bet its money on the safety of [biotechnology], it means the risks are simply too high or too uncertain for them to take the gamble.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.