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Jagmeet Singh needs youth. We need a climate emergency leader.
Guest blog by Vijay Tupper I’m a sixteen-year-old high school student in Burnaby, B.C. In 2019, I joined the youth climate strikes that brought a million Canadians out into ...
Liberals move to outflank the NDP on green issues
John Horgan, Rachel Notley make things awkward for federal New Democrats When Justin Trudeau was asked by a reporter why he dodged Indigenous youth who traveled from Fairy Creek ...
What if B.C. had its own Climate Defence Force?
July 2021 is a good month for international cooperation in the face of the climate crisis Last weekend a battalion of Mexican firefighters touched down into the inferno that ...
Dogwood’s response to the Alberta Inquiry
We’re more determined than ever to stop fossil fuel expansion in B.C. Note: the rules of the Province of Alberta’s “Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns” prevent us from ...
At this late hour in the climate crisis, every vote matters
A razor thin victory at City Hall reminds us how we could lose the climate fight. Late last week, Dogwood caught wind that a seemingly-routine series of staff recommendations ...
Plan B: Decarbonize
We can’t wait for our leaders to save us. We have to get off fossil fuels. The year was 1994. I was finishing a Bachelor’s of Science degree and ...
Old growth trees cleared for Site C dam reservoir
While the controversial project sits in limbo, BC Hydro inflicts irreversible damage Guest post by Ken Boon Premier Horgan is spending $3 million a day of our money on ...
If I can’t be a child, I want the rights of an adult
Society considers me a woman at the age of seventeen, I want my voting rights to reflect that Working with the Vote 16 BC campaign to lower the voting ...