Ontario veering off track from its climate change targets, internal forecasts reveal.

Mike Crawley · CBC News · Posted: Nov 25, 2021 

Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Interrelationships, Geographic Perspective

Inquiry: What should Ontario do to meet carbon emission targets? why is this Government not fulfilling their obligations in fight Climate Change? How might Canada meet its environmental targets if Provinces do not do their part? 

Activity: Use the geographic inquiry model to collect and organize data relating to environmental targets. Analyze the data to determine the potential success of Ontario's Made in Ontario Environmental Plan. Conduct an issue analysis to better understand the roles and position of stakeholders. Create a spatial journal to show where in Ontario environmental impacts maybe felt. Determine a possible plan of action that might bring Ontario back on course to meet their environmental targets and communicate it via story map to an appropriate audience.

 

 

B.C. declares state of emergency in wake of devastating flooding, mudslides Bridgette Watson, Akshay Kulkarni · CBC News · Posted: Nov 17, 2021 

Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Interrelationships, Spatial Significance, Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspective

Inquiry: What might be needed to ensure this level of damage doesn't occur again?

Activity: Conduct an issue analysis to determine the stakeholders and their roles relating to the BC flooding. Gather information on the factors that contributed to the flood situation in BC. Create a spatial journal of where the hardest hit regions can be found. Develop an action plan that might be able to be applied to this situation. Communicate your action plan via story map.

Supporting material:

B.C. flooding could be Canada's costliest disaster as cut-off Port of Vancouver snarls supply chain.

 

Livable Wages in Ontario 2021 by CRAIG PICKTHORNE 

Concepts of Geographic Thinking: Spatial Significance, Geographic Perspective, Interrelationships

Inquiry: What might be needed to ensure all citizens can earn a "livable wage"?

Activity: Use the data from the article to create a spatial journal highlighting the required wage to live a livable life. Collect information on living expenses (needs). Add that data to the spatial journal as well as wages across Ontario to help understand the interrelationships. Conduct an issue analysis to guide a  solution that might be able to raise the minimum wage so that Ontarians can live a livable life. Communicate solution via story map.