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Your guide to bailout people, not corporations!
We are hearing more and more about the “stimulus packages” that the government is putting forward to address the impacts of COVID-19 on our economy. If you’re like me, you…
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Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau about Oil package bailout midst coronavirus crisis
COVID-19 is presenting real and immediate risks to people's health and livelihoods. It is appropriate and necessary for the federal government to make major interventions to keep people safe and healthy, to keep food on our tables and roofs over our heads.
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The fossil fuel industry’s “genderwashing” exposes another layer of their hypocrisy
Every year when International Women’s Day comes around on the 8th of March, it’s now normal to see corporations jumping on the opportunity to make their brands appear more interested in gender equality. Companies organise…
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We need to talk about colonial violence, Wet’suwet’en and Prime Minister Trudeau
ICYMI: Some updates on the Wet'suwet'en solidarity actions. As settlers on Indigenous land, we have a responsibility to push for an end of colonial violence. The relationships, systems and processes that do violence to the land and Indigenous Peoples is not a thing of the past.
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This. Is. BIG. We WON the #RejectTeck campaign!
I’ve rarely seen a campaign win like this before. In a surprising move, Teck, the company behind a proposal to build a massive new mine in Alberta to extract tar…
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STICKER SHOCK: Canadians reject Trans Mountain’s new price tag
February 19, 202 Support crumbles when costs exceed $12 billion, new poll finds OTTAWA – Only 16 per cent of Canadians approve of the federal government spending more than $12…
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What is Justin Trudeau reading? A #RejectTeck reading list
We hope you read the books we delivered to you this afternoon. Maybe even with children in your life. We hope you find them enlightening and inspiring (books and children alike!). As parents, we work so hard to teach our children simple morals, but it is perilously easy to slip into convenience over conviction, even…
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Greenpeace welcomes Cabinet back to Ottawa with a burning call to Reject Teck
Just before dawn, Greenpeace Canada welcomed federal cabinet ministers back to the Hill with a fiery demand to reject the Teck Frontier Mine.
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Liberal voters across canada visit their MPs concerned they’ve been fooled on climate
Federal government’s Teck Frontier Mine approval would greatly undermine Canada’s ability to follow through on climate promises For immediate release TORONTO, February 13, 2020 — Voters in more than 100…
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$12.6B TransMountain construction cost better invested in Green New Deal
Canada – In reaction to the announcement that the TransMountain Expansion Pipeline construction costs are now estimated to be $12.6B, Greenpeace Canada climate campaigner Mike Hudema said: