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Question for mayoral candidates: How would you make Toronto a leader in creating green jobs?

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:44:37 +0000

Brought to you by Heikki Walden of www.torontoloftblog.com. On April 24th, at the Toronto Green Living Show, four of Toronto’s mayoral candidates spoke about their environmental platforms and answered a series of questions presented by moderator Roger Petersen. In this clip, the four candidates answer: “The province has been pushing for green jobs, and wants to be a leader in that. How would you, as mayor of the city of Toronto, make Toronto a leader in the province in generating green jobs?”

Pine beetle expected to eat 11,000 jobs in 20 years

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:44:30 +0000

Pine beetle expected to eat 11,000 jobs in 20 years
A report from the Central 1 Credit Union predicts the mountain pine beetle’s glutinous binge of B.C.’s forests will cost 11,250 forestry jobs in the next two decades.

Government cuts 2,450 jobs at Environment Ministry

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:46:19 +0000

Government cuts 2,450 jobs at Environment Ministry
The government decided to cut a total of 2,450 jobs from the Environment Ministry personnel and in structures reporting to the institution, including 1,190 occupied posts, Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely told Mediafax yesterday, after the Cabinet meeting.

Green Eco Jobs & Careers

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:52:49 +0000

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Rally for Ancient Forests, the Climate and Forestry Jobs 2009

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:47:05 +0000

On October 17, 2009, over 500 people attended the “Rally for our Ancient Forests , the Climate, and BC Forestry Jobs” in the pouring rain in Victoria, British Columbia. It was considered, by one campaigner, to have been “bc’s largest environmental rally in the lousiest weather!” Protesters were calling on the BC Government to save old-growth forests on bcs south coast (Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland), ensure sustainable second-growth logging and ban raw log exports. The Rally and March was organized by the Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC) and included speakers such as Eli Enns (Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Park coordinator), Gisele Martin (Tla-o-qui-aht tourism operator and cultural/environmental educator), Arnie Bercov (Pulp, Paper, and Woodworkers of Canada), Valerie Langer (Friends of Clayoquot Sound and forestethics forest campaigner), Jens Wieting (Sierra Club of BC forest Campaigner), Jane Sterk (BC Green Party leader), Rob Fleming (NDP Environment critic), Scott Fraser (NDP MLA for Alberni-Pacific Rim), Annette Tanner (WCWC Mid-Island chapter), Tara Sawatsky (Wilderness Committee Forest and Marine Campaigner), and Ken Wu (Wilderness Committee Campaign Director, Victoria office).

What jobs can you do along with forestry and conservation?

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:36:15 +0000

I wante to just do forestry and conservation but the average salary is only $30000-$40000. $40000 being expierenced workers. What jobs do forest and conservation workers do along with forestry and consevation to make money?
i get what your saying, but $30,000 really isnt a lot. You can’t live on that and raise a family on that.