Blame it on falling revenues, reluctance to limit spending or raise taxes for fear of political ramifications, Ontario is in dire debt straits. If Ontario's borrowing continues to soar, it will reach $282 billion within the next two years or so. At the moment every single Ontarian accounts for $17,825 in province debt.

"The rising cost of fossil fuel energy and the increasing deterioration of the Earth's climate and ecology are the driving factors that will condition all of the economic and political decisions we make in the course of the next half-century," said Jeremy Rifkin in his book The Emphatic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, 2009. Recently global warming has become an acute problem that needs to be solved with collective efforts. Kyoto Protocol was the one among such efforts. Canada's withdrawal from the protocol put the country's image, its place on the global economy and commitments to environment under doubt.

The aboriginal houses reveal a history of successful adaptations to particular environment, cultural beliefs and lifestyle practices. At one hand owing to their nomadic lifestyle, some houses were simple, portable, and even temporary. However, then there were some whose architecture was breathtaking. The environment played a major role in the house buildup and community arrangement of aboriginal people. For instance, the Haida people, once living on the Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C utilized the abundant forests in shape of tall trees for house building. On the contrary, the Huron were a sedentary tribe who lived in longhouse made of small trees and even barricaded their villages.