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The clock is ticking on the next opportunity to introduce state-of-the-art national and provincial/territorial building codes that support the push to a post-carbon economy.

We’ve been hearing for years that climate change is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. That our children and theirs will judge us by what we did to stop the melting ice caps and the rising seas. That we’ll know we’re serious about climate change when we’ve mounted a peaceful mobilization on the scale of the Second World War to build a post-carbon world.

When a community has a 139-year tradition of whaling, you would expect it to be a tough sell and a tough slog for people to give up a familiar livelihood in the spirit of wildlife conservation.

The federal government is moving ahead with a microbead ban that has already gained unanimous support in the House of Commons. You have until March 10 to have your say on the issue.