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Podcast for May 2019: The Pact for a Green New Deal in Canada
This week a coalition of Canadians from all walks of life including labour unions, environmental organizations, Indigenous groups, scientists, and artists came together to launch the Pact for a ...
Parenting in a climate crisis
The year I started having tough conversations about climate change with my four year old My eldest son turned four this year, and since he’s now old enough to ...
How do we pay for a Green New Deal?
First, stop giving public money to oil and gas companies This week, groups across Canada launched a bold plan to fight the climate crisis. The Green New Deal would ...
Why I want the right to vote
Guest blog post by Nahira Gerster-Sim My name is Nahira and I was adopted from China. Because of the one child policy, my biological parents felt they were not ...
Canada’s Green New Deal starts here
How do we save 20,000 jobs and kick-start a green economy? Posties and auto workers have an idea Auto workers at the GM plant in Oshawa, on the shore ...
On Trudeau’s watch
As the waters rise, politicians double down on heavy crude I visited the seaside community of Qualicum Beach to join a packed screening of Directly Affected, a film about ...
Knock, knock – It’s your climate
Summer of 2017 brings climate debts home to roost “To discuss the cause and effect of these storms, there’s the… place (and time) to do that, it’s not now.” ...
Budgets fail to meet today’s challenge
On climate, Trudeau talks like Churchill but walks like Chamberlain With the federal budget delivered in Ottawa last week, we are reaching the tail end of that time of ...