Sophie Brochu isn’t one to shy away from a fight, and now the president and chief executive officer of Hydro-Québec is facing two: both climate change and a cantankerous oil and gas industry determined to go kicking and screaming into obscurity.

Former MP Ethel Blondin-Andrew says Indigenous people have the know-how but lack resources to help mitigate climate change.

On Thursday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, Blondin-Andrew will join Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood in the year’s first Conversations event to look at how Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship across the country are creating jobs, strengthening food security and inspiring youth.

In conversation with Canada’s National Observer on Thursday evening, Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein flagged a tangential result of the past four years of Donald Trump: a deluge of hard-hitting, gobsmacking investigative journalism, Luke Ottenhof writes.

“Canadians don’t like to hear it, and I don’t like to say it, but even under Donald Trump, the Americans did a better job at tackling the climate emergency over his four years than Canada did,” newly elected Green party Leader Annamie Paul said during a public conversation via Zoom on Thursday.

The host of Democracy Now! stated United States’ staggering pandemic numbers can be attributed to Trump’s “complete incompetence and malevolence.”

“It’s about the conservation of threatened species and recovery of threatened ecosystems,” said Gregg Howald, CEO of  FreshWater Life, an NGO that works on freshwater preservation. “Islands support a disproportionate amount of our global biodiversity. About 20 per cent [of global biodiversity] are found on these islands, and they represent just about five per cent of the Earth’s surface.”