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October 2014

The importance of voting in municipal elections

Monday, October 20, 2014 by Keely Phillips, CIW Community Wellbeing Survey Manager

Did you know that voting in all elections is a responsibility of Canadian citizens? Over the next month, municipalities across several provinces and territories will hold municipal elections. Municipal policies can have a large impact on wellbeing and yet, with few exceptions, Canadians tend to be less interested in municipal politics than they are in federal or provincial politics (Figure 1).

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Are Canadians really connecting with environmental issues?

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 by Keely Phillips and Linda McKessock

This week marks the release of the World Wildlife Fund’s 2014 Living Planet Report. It found that Canada has the 11^th highest ecological footprint in the world, even though it ranks 37^th in terms of population. Additionally, our Canadian lifestyle requires nearly 7 global hectares of resources per person, but the planet can only support 1.7 global hectares per person (a global hectare is about the size of a soccer field). As a nation we are consuming far more than our share.

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