All articles by Alex Speers-Roesch
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Banking Regulators Must Stop Letting Big Banks Finance the Climate Crisis
In case you haven’t heard, Canada’s big banks are bankrolling the climate crisis. The Big Five banks (RBC, TD, Scotiabank, BMO and CIBC) have collectively poured over $900 billion into…
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Greenpeace launches petition in support of Inuit hunters, calls on government to reject Baffinland mine expansion
Today Greenpeace Canada launched a new email petition targeting federal Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal, calling on him to reject the proposed expansion of the Baffinland iron mine
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B.C. Floods Show Urgent Need For Action On Climate Change & Fossil Fuel Phase Out
What’s happening right now in British Columbia is heartbreaking and terrifying.
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Were BC’s Horrific Heatwave and Wildfires Caused By Climate Change?
You’ve probably seen the shocking and disturbing news. BC experienced a brutal heatwave which brought record-breaking high temperatures of nearly 50˚C. Hundreds of people died.
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Greenpeace Protests in Solidarity with Nuluujaat Land Guardians at ArcelorMittal Headquarters in Luxembourg
Earlier today Greenpeace activists gathered in front of the headquarters of global steel giant ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg to protest in solidarity with the Nuluujaat Land Guardians and Inuit communities
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Ministerial Briefing Note Shows How Canada’s Natural Resources Ministry Is Captured by the Oil Industry
This is a revised, blog-ified and slightly expanded version of the Twitter thread here.
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Canada’s Big Banks are Bankrolling the Climate Crisis
Where do fossil fuel companies get the money for their climate villainy? What dirty deeds the big banks are up to?
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Oil industry leveraging pandemic to pressure government for climate-wrecking favours in Newfoundland offshore
We’re five months into the pandemic and so far we’ve seen lots of examples of polluting industries trying to use the crisis to pressure governments for more subsidies, changes to…
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Acts of Resistance: Museum of Vancouver Exhibit on Indigenous Protest Art Goes Virtual
The Museum of Vancouver has a fantastic exhibit right now on Indigenous protest art called Acts of Resistance. It features seven Indigenous artists and the flags they designed for a…