Not exactly a riot, but NDP leader Jack Layton was out to show support for international measures to fight climate change.

The Sustainable Enterprise Resource Centre aims to operate as a sustainability incubator facilitating development, growth and collaboration of of organizations doing critical work in Canada involving sustainability.
By refusing to act decisively on climate change until Bush does, the Harper government has effectively given the industrial world’s biggest foot-dragger on global warming the final say on any intergovernmental effort. One wonders why anyone bothers holding meetings of environment ministers anymore.
The newly green Conservatives may not want to do anything to slow down the economy, but they appear to be putting the brakes on gas-guzzling SUVs with a new environmental levy that could come to as much as $4000.
People sometimes wonder why things like globalization, GMOs, or maltreated seals provoke outrage and protest, while the prospect of immanent planetary disaster do not, really. Well, protesters have finally arrived in Ottawa.

Toronto City Council established the Toronto Atmospheric Fund (TAF) in 1991 to finance local initiatives to combat global warming and improve air quality in Toronto.
The Harper government is taking two days to consider opposition amendments to proposed legislation, despite the fact that the committee is working against a self-imposed deadline. Meanwhile, John Baird continued to rail against the Liberals’ cap system, on the grounds that it allows companies to pollute as long as they pay fines. It would seem to follow that he has ...

The program seeks to leave a legacy of trees for future generations by initiating tree planting along City streets, arterial roads, neighbourhood parks and in ravines.
The Conservatives managed the near-impossible by reversing themselves on earlier pronouncements against participating in Kyoto, and still not figuring out a way to decisively cut emissions, hinting that Canadian companies may be allowed to take advantage of the Clean Development Mechanism, which allows rich countries to by emissions allowances from developing nations, but not to take part in a market ...
Australia’s largest city will be plunged into darkness for an hour on Saturday in a world first blackout to raise awareness of global warming.