Is Winter an Apolitical Issue for Canadians?Ībout ten minutes into the 30 minute interview, Gulli said that she felt that winter (unlike other Canadian identity issues like ‘health care’ or ‘Canada as peacemakers’) was “apolitical”. “This is really going to shake our identity to the core.” To her, “Canada without winter is a huge loss,” she says. There’s a whole mythology that Canada is cold,” says Franke James, a Toronto-based author and artist whose work often includes themes relating to warming winters and what they signal about the way we live today, and what they might mean for our future. “We feel that we are heroes, that we are battling the snow. And it’s threatening to take our national identity with it. Here’s an excerpt from Maclean’s:įor the last 65 years, temperatures have risen across the country, and all signs suggest this will continue. When Gulli called me we had a lively conversation about the impact of a warming climate on Canada and Canadian culture. So, in a visual essay and video, I posed the question “Will Global Warming Be Good for Canada?” I wrote the story because I was concerned that people weren’t aware of the looming threat posed by climate change and were complacent. That was the winter that saw 1300 laid off in Collingwood during ski season, and the breaking news that the Arctic ice was melting much faster than scientists expected. Thanks to climate change - which is not going away anytime soon - a story I created five years ago still has legs, and resulted in an interview with Maclean’s Magazine for their March 2012 cover story “The Year That Winter Died.”Ĭathy Gulli, from Maclean’s Googled “winter Canada warming” and found my story about the green winter of 2006-2007. Maclean’s Magazine asked me, “Is Winter an Apolitical Issue for Canadians?”
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