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Reality check: Saving wildlife and biodiversity means saving ourselves
It's World Wildlife Day, an opportunity to examine the endless pursuit of limitless growth - and what that means on a planet with finite resources. So much of the wildlife on this planet is heading for extinction. Here's what we need to do.
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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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What does it mean to Build Back Fossil Free?
Year after year, fossil fuel companies get the subsidies and tax breaks they ask for. But what if this year, they didn’t?
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Have your say on the most significant budget of our lifetime: Tell Justin Trudeau to Build Back Fossil Free!
The time has come for the Trudeau government to prove that its great, green ambition is not just empty words. The 2021 federal budget is expected next month and we will learn whether the big promises of the Speech from the Throne last fall will be translated into concrete investments.
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Jason Kenney’s career funding foreign campaigns against climate action
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has spent much of his political career trying to change public policy in the U.S. and Europe, so it is odd that he should be so outraged by the idea of people outside Canada caring about the climate impacts of oil development.
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Follow Biden’s Lead and Cancel TMX Say Large Collection of Groups Representing More Than 3.5 Million Canadians
A collection of labour, faith, health, science, youth, environmental, community, social justice and indigenous groups representing more than 3.5 million Canadians have sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and his entire cabinet asking for him to cancel the taxpayer-funded $12.6 billion and counting Trans Mountain pipeline project (TMX).
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Success! Nuclear weapons are illegal at last
Nuclear arms are the most destructive, indiscriminate and monstrous weapons ever produced – but today, we can all celebrate a major milestone in the long march towards peace: the Treaty…
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With holiday waste set to spike, Greenpeace report warns that plastic recycling “is not a thing”
VANCOUVER / AAMJIWNAANG — A new Greenpeace investigation reveals that Canada can’t handle the plastic trash companies generate. Findings demonstrate that the federal government's new approach for achieving zero plastic waste by 2030 is likely doomed to fail, leaving households, communities and the environment to deal with the consequences.
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Greenpeace Canada reaction to the federal climate plan
OTTAWA — In reaction to the Climate plan released today by the federal government, Keith Stewart Senior Energy Strategist at Greenpeace Canada, said:
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TransMountain: a pipeline only profitable in worst case scenarios.
Toronto – December 8, 2020 – In reaction to the Parliamentary Budget Office financial and economic update on TransMountain, Keith Stewart, senior energy strategist, Greenpeace Canada commented :