Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrew Nikiforuk

Send us a textHow will we feed people living in the megacities of the 21st century, especially while confronting climate chaos and the depletion of fossil fuels and fossil water? According to the mainstream media: ecomodernism! Massive deployment of technology on factory farms and an extreme ramp-up of industrialization will save the day – right? RIGHT?!? If you read the New York Times, you might think that supermarket shelves will forever overflow with 3D-printed fish sticks, mylar bags full of genetically modified cheesy poofs, and faux corn dogs that ooze out of laboratory vats. Jason, Rob, and Asher question the wisdom of doubling down on industrialization in food and farming. It's no surprise they recommend paying attention to nature and ecological limits. Stick around for ideas you can use in your community to support a healthy, regenerative food system (and keep on eating). Originally recorded on 1/21/25.Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.Sources/Links/Notes:Jason Bradford, The Future Is Rural, 2/19/19.Eliza Barclay, "What to Eat on a Burning Planet," The New York Times, 7/29/24.David Wallace-Wells, "Food as You Know It Is About to Change," The New York Times, 7/28/24.Andrew Nikiforuk, "A Reality Check on Our 'Energy Transition'," Resilience, 1/6/25.Michael Grunwald, "Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food," The New York Times, 12/13/24."Changing How We Grow Our Food: Readers disagree with an essay about factory farms," The New York Times, 1/4/25.Jay Famiglietti, "Will We Have to Pump the Great Lakes to California to Feed the Nation?" The New York Times, 8/5/24.Clip of the Hydrologist in Chief "explaining" the oh-so-simple solution to water shortages.Support the show

Top stories today: ANOTHER gang shooting And, another one that dangerously put the public at risk of being caught in the crossfire. Relative of patient who died in long term care speaks out This is following yesterday's report from Ian Young, that essentially there was a major failure in long term care when it came to reporting outbreaks. That failure was just protocol. Punishment for animal abuse, not strict enough  A former hockey goalie is in the news after some brutal reports about what he did to a dog while pet sitting. Much more in the full episode! _____________ NAVIGATE THE PODCAST:  Chapter 1 Another day in the lower mainland, another gang murder It's getting tiring at this point. Yet, another shooting.  Sgt Elenore Sturko is Surrey RCMP's Media Relations Officer, who lets us know the current situation on the policing front.  Chapter 2 A response to Vancouver being the best place for young workers Eric spoke to Seabus meme's.  Chapter 3 What went wrong in long term care We spoke to Ian Young yesterday about a long term care report, now senior care leaders are trying to figure out what happens. Meanwhile, a relative of a victim who passed in long term care, is continuing to speak out.  Chapter 4 Animal abusers deserve harsher penalties We present a disturbing case to you through the eyes of Animal Lawyer Rebeka Breder.  Eric spoke to a psychologist about what might trigger this. Chapter 5 Alberta, Jason Kenney, and the UCP in shambles What happens next? By all accounts Premier Kenney has botched the pandemic response in Alberta. We speak with Andrew Nikiforuk, Contributing editor to The Tyee, science writer Author of two books on pandemics: ‘The Fourth Horseman' and ‘Pandemonium' Chapter 6 Adrian Dix on support and funding for ALS Health Minister Adrian Dix joins the show.  Chapter 7 A conversation with a survivor of a grizzly bear attack Colin Dowler is the lucky man who survived the grizzly bear attack and tells us the story. _____________   Remember to wash your hands, practice physical distancing, and stay home at all costs if you are sick. We're not out of the woods yet!    The Lynda Steele Full Show podcast includes all the individual segments that can be found on the Lynda Steele Show page, digitally stitched together for your convenience.    Listen live online at globalnews.ca/radio/cknw/ 3-6 PM!

What happens next? By all accounts Premier Kenney has botched the pandemic response in Alberta. We speak with Andrew Nikiforuk, Contributing editor to The Tyee, science writer Author of two books on pandemics: ‘The Fourth Horseman' and ‘Pandemonium'

GUEST: Andrew Nikiforuk, Contributing Editor with the Tyee, award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An article which first propped up in the Tyee suggests the only solution, is zero. That's right, reaching zero cases. We're currently averaging somewhere in the ballpark of 450 cases. To reach zero, the BC Government would have to take drastic measures, which many seem to be okay with. Andrew Nikiforuk  wrote the article in question. Hes a contributing editor to The Tyee, science writer  and Author of two books on pandemics: ‘The Fourth Horseman' and ‘Pandemonium'

Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk lays out civilian concerns around coal strip mining in the Rockies. Conservationist and author Kevin Van Tighem, former superintendent of Banff National Park, helps us understand what's really going on with the UCP and ownership of Alberta's parks. Award-winning journalist Brandi Morin revisits Canada's top Indigenous news stories of 2020. Former Oilers captain and Stanley Cup champion Andrew Ference explains why he was so ticked off at an Edmonton outdoor rink, and what he's expecting with the upcoming, shortened NHL season.

Andrew Nikiforuk and Dave Yager are two energy authors with different perspectives on fossil fuel development. They talk to Kathleen Petty about the immense challenges for jurisdictions hooked on oil.

by Andrew Nikiforuk and Amorina Kingdon • The history of influenza as a global disease is inextricably tied to steamships and the expansion of world trade. A war demonstrated how big a pandemic could get. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

A really good article was published in the Tyee recently, where the author, Andrew Nikiforuk, spoke with Global Fisheries Expert, Dr. Daniel Pauly, and asked him what he would change about global fisheries if he were a Global Fisheries Minister. Daniel had 3 things that he would change: 1) End Government Subsidies For Industrial Fisheries Fleet; 2) Create Fishing Reserves For Small, Local Fisheries; and, 3) Establish No-Go Zones To Protect Fish. Listen to the episode for more information. Here are some links on Dr. Daniel Pauly: University Of British Columbia Website The Sea Around Us Project Website What would you do if you were Global Fisheries Minister? Share your plan in the Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group: http://www.speakupforblue.com/group. Check out the new Speak Up For The Ocean Blue Podcast App: http://www.speakupforblue.com/app. Speak Up For Blue Instagram Speak Up For Blue Twitter Check out the Shows on the Speak Up For Blue Network: Marine Conservation Happy Hour Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k4ZB3x Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2kkEElk ConCiencia Azul: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k6XPio Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k4ZMMf Dugongs & Seadragons: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lB9Blv Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lV6THt Environmental Studies & Sciences Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lx86oh Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lG8LUh Marine Mammal Science: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k5pTCI Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k1YyRL  

Sometime in the 1990's I received a long letter from a teacher named Alex Lawson, asking me to consider doing an Ideas series on the state of education. The letter impressed me by its sincerity, and by the sense of urgency its author clearly felt, but I found the idea somewhat daunting. The subject inspires such endless controversy, and such passion, that I could immediately picture the brickbats flying by my ears. I also worried that my views were too remote from the mainstream to allow me to treat the subject fairly. My three younger children, to that point, had not attended school, and my reading and inclination had made me more interested in de-schooling than in the issues then vexing the school and university systems, which I tended to see as artefacts of obsolete structures. Nevertheless Alex and I kept in touch, and I gradually became able to pictures the pathways such a series might open up. Thinking of it as a set of "debates" or discussions, without getting too stuck on a tediously pro and con dialectical structure, allowed me to reach out very widely and include the heretics with the believers. The series was broadcast, in fifteen parts, 1998 and 1999. I re-listened to it recently, and I think it holds me pretty well. There are a few anachronisms, but my dominant impression was plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Alex Lawson, whose ardour and persistence inspired the whole thing, appears in the third programme of the set. De-schooling gets its day in programmes seven through nine.This series Inspired a letter I have never forgotten, from a retired military man in rural New Brunswick, who wrote to me afterwards that I had "performed a noble service for our country." I was touched, not only that he saw nobility in what I had done, but that he could see that I had attempted to open up the question of education and provide a curiculum for its study rather than trying to foreclose or settle it.The series had a large cast of characters whom I have listed below.Part One, The Demand for Reform: Sarah Martin, Maureen Somers, Jack Granatstein, Andrew Nikiforuk, Heather Jane RobertsonPart Two, A New Curriculum: E.D. Hirsch, Neil PostmanPart Three, Don’t Shoot the Teacher: Alex Lawson, Daniel Ferri, Andy HargreavesPart Four, School Reform in the U.S.: Deborah Meier, Ted SizerPart Five, Reading in an Electronic Age, Carl Bereiter, Deborrah Howes, Frank Smith, David SolwayPart Six, Schooling and Technology: Bob Davis, Marita Moll, Carl BereiterPart Seven, Deschooling Society: Paul Goodman, Ivan Illich, John HoltPart Eight, Deschooling Today: John Holt, Susannah Sheffer, Chris MercoglianoPart Nine, Dumbing Us Down: Frank Smith, John Taylor GattoPart Ten, Virtues or Values: Edward Andrew, Peter Emberley, Iain BensonPart Eleven, Common Culture, Multi-Culture: Charles Taylor, Bernie Farber, Bob DavisPart Twelve, The Case for School Choice: Mark Holmes, Adrian Guldemond, Joe Nathan, Andy Hargreaves, Heather Jane RobertsonPart Thirteen, Trials of the University: Jack Granatstein, Paul Axelrod, Michael Higgins, Peter EmberleyPart Fourteen, On Liberal Studies: Clifford Orwin, Leah Bradshaw, Peter EmberleyPart Fifteen, Teaching the Conflicts: Martha Nussbaum, Gerald Graff

Andrew Nikiforuk's new book, Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry, is the shocking story of an oil and gas industry insider's determined stand to hold government and industry legally accountable for the tremendous damage caused by fracking. When Jessica Ernst's well water turned into a flammable broth that even her dogs refused to drink, the biologist and long-time oil patch consultant discovered that energy giant Encana had secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home, piercing her community's drinking water aquifer. Since then, her ongoing lawsuit against Encana, Alberta Environment, and the Energy Resources Conservation Board has made her a folk hero in many places worldwide where fracking is underway or is being contemplated. Slick Water raises dramatic questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with rapidly depleting supplies of unconventional oil and gas, and the future of civil society.

Canadian biologist Jessica Ernst worked in the oil and gas industry. When her well water became a flammable stew, she embarked on a fact-finding and legal campaign, now into a second decade, that's about to go to the Supreme Court. Her opponents: corporate fossil fuel giant Encana, the agency Alberta Environment, and the Energy Resources Conservation Board. At issue: just oversight of public resources (water!) and the accountability of both government and industry. Earthworms podcast guest Andrew Nikiforuk tells this complex story in his new book Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry (2015, Greystone Books, published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation). Nikiforuk, a Canadian journalist, is a recipient of the prestigious Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award. He weaves a compelling report of Jessica Ernst's research and extraordinary citizen activism with the science of fracking and its wake of human and environmental repercussions. The book is a page-turner. This conversation is an intelligent, compelling must-hear. Music: Public Enemy Number One, recorded at KDHX by the Godfathers.

This week on Sierra Club Radio:Award-winning photographer Ian Shive discusses his new book, The National Parks: An American Legacy.Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk tells the story of activist Jessica Ernst in Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry. From [field_sierra_department]

Andrew Nikiforuk's new book, Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry, is the shocking story of an oil and gas industry insider's determined stand to hold government and industry legally accountable for the tremendous damage caused by fracking. When Jessica Ernst's well water turned into a flammable broth that even her dogs refused to drink, the biologist and long-time oil patch consultant discovered that energy giant Encana had secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home, piercing her community's drinking water aquifer. Since then, her ongoing lawsuit against Encana, Alberta Environment, and the Energy Resources Conservation Board has made her a folk hero in many places worldwide where fracking is underway or is being contemplated. Slick Water raises dramatic questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with rapidly depleting supplies of unconventional oil and gas, and the future of civil society.

The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. And the potential environmental consequences have brought together citizens from across borders, to fight its rippling effects. On this edition, the second of a two part special, on the growing resistance to the tarsands. Fighting Goliath produced by Barbara Bernstein. Featuring: Kevin Lewis, Idaho Rivers United conservation director; Linwood Laughy, writer & historian; Borg Hendrickson, Clearwater Country co-author; Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent author; Bob Skinner, Canada School of Energy and the Environment interim director; Annick Smith, A River Runs Through It co-producer; Bob Gentry, environmental attorney; Steven Hawley, Recovering a Lost River author; David James Duncan, The Heart of the Monster co-author; Zack Porter All Against The Haul executive director; Steve Seninger, University of Montana economist; Spider McKnight, All Against the Haul communications specialist   The post Fighting Goliath (Part 2) Encore appeared first on KPFA.

The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. And the potential environmental consequences have brought together citizens from across borders, to fight its rippling effects. On this edition, the first of a two part special, on the growing resistance to the tarsands. Fighting Goliath produced by Barbara Bernstein. Featuring: Kevin Lewis, Idaho Rivers United conservation director; Linwood Laughy, writer & historian; Borg Hendrickson, Clearwater Country co-author; Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent author; Bob Skinner, Canada School of Energy and the Environment interim director; Annick Smith, A River Runs Through It co-producer; Bob Gentry, environmental attorney; Steven Hawley, Recovering a Lost River author; David James Duncan, The Heart of the Monster co-author; Zack Porter All Against The Haul executive director; Steve Seninger, University of Montana economist; Spider McKnight, All Against the Haul communications specialist The post Fighting Goliath (Part 1) appeared first on KPFA.

The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. And the potential environmental consequences have brought together citizens from across borders, to fight its rippling effects.  On this two part special, we experience the growing resistance to the tarsands. Fighting Goliath… produced by Barbara Bernstein. Special thanks to Claire Schoen, Atava Garcia Swiecicki, Lauren Villa, Sandra Pacheco, and the members of the Sol Collective. Featuring: Kevin Lewis, Idaho Rivers United conservation director; Linwood Laughy, writer & historian; Borg Hendrickson, Clearwater Country co-author; Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent author; Bob Skinner, Canada School of Energy and the Environment interim director; Annick Smith, A River Runs Through It co-producer; Bob Gentry, environmental attorney; Steven Hawley, Recovering a Lost River author; David James Duncan, The Heart of the Monster co-author; Zack Porter All Against The Haul executive director; Steve Seninger, University of Montana economist; Spider McKnight, All Against the Haul communications specialist.     More information: The Rural People of Highway 12 Fighting Goliath, Kooskia ID  All Against the Haul, Missoula, Montana    Wild Idaho Rising Tide  The Common Sense Canadian  ForestEthics Advocacy, Vancouver, BC, and Bellingham, WA: Tar Sands SOS Sightline Institute, Seattle Andrew Nikiforuk Pacific Wild – Ian McAllister Tsleil-Waututh Sacred Trust Initative Coastal First Nations Recovering a Lost River   The post Making Contact – Fighting Goliath (Part 2) appeared first on KPFA.

The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. And the potential environmental consequences have brought together citizens from across borders, to fight its rippling effects.  On this two part special, we experience the growing resistance to the tarsands. Fighting Goliath… produced by Barbara Bernstein. Special thanks to Claire Schoen, Atava Garcia Swiecicki, Lauren Villa, Sandra Pacheco, and the members of the Sol Collective. Featuring: Kevin Lewis, Idaho Rivers United conservation director; Linwood Laughy, writer & historian; Borg Hendrickson, Clearwater Country co-author; Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent author; Bob Skinner, Canada School of Energy and the Environment interim director; Annick Smith, A River Runs Through It co-producer; Bob Gentry, environmental attorney; Steven Hawley, Recovering a Lost River author; David James Duncan, The Heart of the Monster co-author; Zack Porter All Against The Haul executive director; Steve Seninger, University of Montana economist; Spider McKnight, All Against the Haul communications specialist.     More information: The Rural People of Highway 12 Fighting Goliath, Kooskia ID  All Against the Haul, Missoula, Montana    Wild Idaho Rising Tide  The Common Sense Canadian  ForestEthics Advocacy, Vancouver, BC, and Bellingham, WA: Tar Sands SOS Sightline Institute, Seattle Andrew Nikiforuk Pacific Wild – Ian McAllister Tsleil-Waututh Sacred Trust Initative Coastal First Nations Recovering a Lost River   The post Making Contact – Fighting Goliath (Part 1) appeared first on KPFA.

An interview with Andrew Nikiforuk and a round table discussion about the closure of federal libraries in Canada.

Ryerson University journalism instructor Lisa Taylor shares the preliminary results of her study on Canada's press councils. Award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk talks about fracking being put on trial in Alberta. Vancouver Observer staff writer Alexis Stoymenoff discusses her reporting on American donations to the Fraser Institute. And our rabble-rousing panel - Don Anderson, Eleanor Gregory, the Georgia Straight's Charlie Smith and Allan Warnke - share their thoughts on the week that was in provincial and federal politics.

Columbia Journalism Review science editor Curtis Brainard and University of Victoria drug policy research Alan Cassels discuss whether doctors should have to disclose the payments they receive from drug companies. British Columbia Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair talks about a new online newspaper for unionists. The Tyee's energy and equity columnist Andrew Nikiforuk shares his thoughts on why fracking has become a political issue in Alberta but not so much in Briish Columbia. And our rabble-rousing panel - Don Anderson, Eleanor Gregory, Bob Russell and Allan Warnke - share their thoughts on the week that was in provincial and federal politics.

Feature #1: If you live on the Front Range, or just about anywhere else in Colorado, you don’t have to go far to notice huge swaths of rusty brown that have replaced green conifer forests. By now, many people are familiar at least with the devastating effects of the mountain pine beetle. But far fewer may understand just how these voracious insects actually make their living, or that this epidemic -- and its causes and triggers -- are far more nuanced, and controversial, than meets the eye.  How On Earth co-host Susan Moran talks with Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk about the beetles that have been gorging with impunity on lodgepole pine, spruce and other forests from British Columbia down nearly to Mexico. His new book is called The Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests.Previously, he wrote a best-selling book called Tar Sands. Feature #2:  Sharks have a special place in the human psyche.  Perhaps it is a combination of the mystery of the depths of the ocean and natural fear and awe of powerful beasts that can kill humans with a single bite.  But these predators also are key players in the ocean’s ecosystem. The science and legends of sharks are the subject of a new book called “Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks” by Juliet Eilperin, the environmental science and policy reporter for The Washington Post.  How On Earth's Joel Parker talks with Juliet about her book. Listen to the extended interview here. Hosts: Susan Moran and Joel Parker Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Joel Parker

The Tyee's energy and equity columnist Andrew Nikiforuk joins us to discuss the risks associated with carbon capture and storage projects. Provincial New Democrat deputy mining critic Doug Donaldson shares his thoughts on the departure of the province's top mining bureaucrat to lead the province's top mining lobby group. Sierra Club of BC executive director George Heyman tells us why he's considering running for that NDP in the next election. And our rabble-rousing panel - Don Anderson, Michael Prince, Bob Russell and Allan Warnke - debate the week that was in provincial and federal politics.

Big Ideas presents Jeff Rubin and Andrew Nikiforuk on The Future of the Oil Economy. This panel discussion took place at the 2010 Globe and Mail Festival Open House. Moderator is Paul Waldie.

Authors Jeff Rubin and Andrew Nikiforuk discuss The Future of the Oil Economy, with moderator Paul Waldie. This panel was part of the 2010 Globe and Mail Open House Festival.

Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical expose of the World's largest energy project - the Alberta oil sands - that has made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders on earth. In Tar Sands, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands and argues forcefully for change.

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The rapid development of the tar sands has changed the nation and made most of Alberta a suburb of Fort McMurray. The current financial meltdown has highlighted the folly of exploiting this resource with inadequate planning, little financial accountability, dubious technology and poor regulation. But low oil prices have also given Alberta an opportunity to reassess the pace and scale of development. Without a clear savings plan, fair royalties and hard renewable energy targets the tar sands could impoverish the province. Speaker:Andrew Nikiforuk For the last two decades, Andrew Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the West for a variety of Canadian publications including The Walrus, Maclean's, Canadian Business, and the Globe and Mail's Report on Business. He is a frequent commentator on CBC. In the late 1990s, Nikiforuk investigated the social and ecological impacts of intensive livestock industries and the legacy of northern uranium mining for the Calgary Herald. His public policy position papers on water diversion in the Great Lakes (2004) and water, energy and North American integration (2007) at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre sparked both discussion and reform. Andrew's journalism has won many National Magazine Awards and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists. His Alberta-based book, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War against Big Oil, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. His latest book is The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent.

The rapid development of the tar sands has changed the nation and made most of Alberta a suburb of Fort McMurray. The current financial meltdown has highlighted the folly of exploiting this resource with inadequate planning, little financial accountability, dubious technology and poor regulation. But low oil prices have also given Alberta an opportunity to reassess the pace and scale of development. Without a clear savings plan, fair royalties and hard renewable energy targets the tar sands could impoverish the province. Speaker:Andrew Nikiforuk For the last two decades, Andrew Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the West for a variety of Canadian publications including The Walrus, Maclean's, Canadian Business, and the Globe and Mail's Report on Business. He is a frequent commentator on CBC. In the late 1990s, Nikiforuk investigated the social and ecological impacts of intensive livestock industries and the legacy of northern uranium mining for the Calgary Herald. His public policy position papers on water diversion in the Great Lakes (2004) and water, energy and North American integration (2007) at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre sparked both discussion and reform. Andrew's journalism has won many National Magazine Awards and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists. His Alberta-based book, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War against Big Oil, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. His latest book is The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent.

The rapid development of the tar sands has changed the nation and made most of Alberta a suburb of Fort McMurray. The current financial meltdown has highlighted the folly of exploiting this resource with inadequate planning, little financial accountability, dubious technology and poor regulation. But low oil prices have also given Alberta an opportunity to reassess the pace and scale of development. Without a clear savings plan, fair royalties and hard renewable energy targets the tar sands could impoverish the province. Speaker: Andrew Nikiforuk For the last two decades, Andrew Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the West for a variety of Canadian publications including The Walrus, Maclean's, Canadian Business, and the Globe and Mail's Report on Business. He is a frequent commentator on CBC. In the late 1990s, Nikiforuk investigated the social and ecological impacts of intensive livestock industries and the legacy of northern uranium mining for the Calgary Herald. His public policy position papers on water diversion in the Great Lakes (2004) and water, energy and North American integration (2007) at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre sparked both discussion and reform. Andrew's journalism has won many National Magazine Awards and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists. His Alberta-based book, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War against Big Oil, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. His latest book is The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent.

The rapid development of the tar sands has changed the nation and made most of Alberta a suburb of Fort McMurray. The current financial meltdown has highlighted the folly of exploiting this resource with inadequate planning, little financial accountability, dubious technology and poor regulation. But low oil prices have also given Alberta an opportunity to reassess the pace and scale of development. Without a clear savings plan, fair royalties and hard renewable energy targets the tar sands could impoverish the province. Speaker: Andrew Nikiforuk For the last two decades, Andrew Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the West for a variety of Canadian publications including The Walrus, Maclean's, Canadian Business, and the Globe and Mail's Report on Business. He is a frequent commentator on CBC. In the late 1990s, Nikiforuk investigated the social and ecological impacts of intensive livestock industries and the legacy of northern uranium mining for the Calgary Herald. His public policy position papers on water diversion in the Great Lakes (2004) and water, energy and North American integration (2007) at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre sparked both discussion and reform. Andrew's journalism has won many National Magazine Awards and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists. His Alberta-based book, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War against Big Oil, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. His latest book is The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent.

The scale of biological invasions unsettling our hospitals, water and livestock now dwarfs the whole SARS debacle but gets little respect. Hospital invaders are particularly insidious. One in ten patients will acquire unwanted bacterial, viral or fungal infections when they visit a hospital in Canada and an estimated 8,000 will die from these infections every year. Drawing on examples from his new book, Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century, Andrew Nikiforuk will explain how hospitals have become industrial factories for drug-resistant super bugs and what the average citizen can do about this threat to public health. Speaker: Andrew Nikiforuk Andrew Nikiforuk is the author of three previous books, including Saboteurs, which won a Governor General's Award for non-fiction. His first book, The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges and Emerging Viruses, won critical acclaim in Canada, the United States and Britain. An award-winning journalist, Andrew Nikiforuk has written for Alberta Venture, Walrus, Saturday Night, Avenue, Canadian Business and the Globe & Mail Report on Business Magazine. He and his family have owned land in the Porcupine Hills for nearly 20 years where he is a member of the Livingstone Landowner's Group.

The scale of biological invasions unsettling our hospitals, water and livestock now dwarfs the whole SARS debacle but gets little respect. Hospital invaders are particularly insidious. One in ten patients will acquire unwanted bacterial, viral or fungal infections when they visit a hospital in Canada and an estimated 8,000 will die from these infections every year. Drawing on examples from his new book, Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century, Andrew Nikiforuk will explain how hospitals have become industrial factories for drug-resistant super bugs and what the average citizen can do about this threat to public health. Speaker: Andrew Nikiforuk Andrew Nikiforuk is the author of three previous books, including Saboteurs, which won a Governor General's Award for non-fiction. His first book, The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges and Emerging Viruses, won critical acclaim in Canada, the United States and Britain. An award-winning journalist, Andrew Nikiforuk has written for Alberta Venture, Walrus, Saturday Night, Avenue, Canadian Business and the Globe & Mail Report on Business Magazine. He and his family have owned land in the Porcupine Hills for nearly 20 years where he is a member of the Livingstone Landowner's Group.