Joshua Ostroff

Toronto

Senior Manager, Editorial at World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada)

Views my own, obvs. Senior editorial manager, WWF Canada. (See also: CBC, Globe&Mail, Walrus, Sharp, Maclean's, Vice, CTV, HuffPost, Broadview, etc.)

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Articles

Elbows up for nature: The smart economics of voting to protect our environment

1 week ago | wwf.ca | Joshua Ostroff

Monday’s election arrives at a particularly uncertain moment in Canadian history, amid the ongoing domestic and international instability that has defined recent days, months and years. While our economy and sovereignty are currently under attack, eliciting cries of “elbows up” in the face of increasing aggression from the United States, our biodiversity and climate have been threatened for much longer.
The Curious History of Cover Songs and Why They Continue to Endure

2 months ago | everythingzoomer.com | Joshua Ostroff

| February 20th, 2025Aretha Franklin's 1967 cover of 'Respect' was so electrifying, to this day it still overshadows Otis Redding's original. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesWhen rock ’n’ roll first exploded in the 1950s, its success was built on cover songs.
The Curious History of Cover Songs and Why They Endure to This Day

Jan 23, 2025 | everythingzoomer.com | Joshua Ostroff

| January 23rd, 2025Aretha Franklin's 1967 cover of 'Respect' was so electrifying, to this day it still overshadows Otis Redding's original. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesWhen rock ’n’ roll first exploded in the 1950s, its success was built on cover songs.
Inuit communities connect to conserve

Dec 11, 2024 | wwf.ca | Joshua Ostroff

Talking to neighbours in person has always been the best way to learn and find common ground. But while just as true for neighbouring communities, it’s much harder when it’s 25 Nunavut communities spread across a couple million square kilometres.
Legends of the Pen: Sarah McLachlan and Tom Cochrane Among 2024 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductees

Nov 3, 2024 | everythingzoomer.com | Joshua Ostroff

| November 3rd, 2024 Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy (seen here in Zoomer, 2019) and Greg Keelor are among the new inductees to the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.Photo: Chris Chapman Hardly fumbling toward pedigree, Sarah McLachlan gave her fans reason to be ecstatic as the beloved ’90s icon – known for emotional ballads like Angel and I Will Remember You – is being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) alongside life-is-a-highwayman Tom Cochrane, Blue Rodeo’s dual champions...
COP16: How the world plans to halt and reverse biodiversity loss (and how we plan to ensure they do) - WWF.CA

Oct 21, 2024 | wwf.ca | Joshua Ostroff

Remember COP15, the landmark UN biodiversity summit in Montreal a couple winters back? That December 2022 international meeting, relocated from China due to the pandemic, resulted in the dramatic late-night signing of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), a mouthful of a name for a treaty that is fundamentally simple: halt and reverse biodiversity loss, which 196 countries agreed to.
State of emergency: Will a new ruling on spotted owls force Canada to protect endangered orcas?

Jun 27, 2024 | wwf.ca | Joshua Ostroff

“Either the threats are imminent or not. Either the threats concern the survival or recovery of the species, or they do not,” Justice Yvan Roy wrote in his ruling against the federal government for its delay in protecting the Endangered northern spotted owl.
A Look at Joni Mitchell’s Life From Both Sides Now – and Then

Jun 13, 2024 | everythingzoomer.com | Joshua Ostroff

Joni Mitchell famously warned us that we don’t know what we got ‘til it’s gone, but we’ve been proving that wrong since the Canadian icon was discovered, unconscious, on her Bel-Air kitchen floor in 2015, struck down by a brain aneurysm three days earlier. While the Saskatchewan-raised singer-songwriter was re-learning how to speak, walk, play guitar and, eventually, sing, we all got to realize what we have while it’s here, sparking a rare revival of a still-living artist.
As ‘Back to Black’ Explores Amy Winehouse’s Turbulent Life, Her Timeless Music Remains at the Centre of Her Legacy

May 17, 2024 | everythingzoomer.com | Joshua Ostroff

| May 17th, 2024A new biopic about British soul singer Amy Winehouse, 'Back in Black,' arrives thanks to continued cultural interest driven by the soap operatics of the singer's life. Photo: Bryan Adams/Trunk ArchiveWhen Amy Winehouse crossed the pond to Austin, Texas, for the South-by-Southwest music festival in March 2007 – a shining, shambolic soon-to-be superstar and not-yet-tragic hero – the concept of time dissipated in her wake.
As ‘Back to Black’ Explores Amy Winehouse’s Turbulent Life, Her Timeless Music Remains at the Centre of Her Legacy

May 16, 2024 | everythingzoomer.com | Joshua Ostroff

| May 16th, 2024A new biopic about British soul singer Amy Winehouse, 'Back in Black,' arrives thanks to continued cultural interest driven by the soap operatics of the singer's life. Photo: Bryan Adams/Trunk ArchiveWhen Amy Winehouse crossed the pond to Austin, Texas, for the South-by-Southwest music festival in March 2007 – a shining, shambolic soon-to-be superstar and not-yet-tragic hero – the concept of time dissipated in her wake.