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How the Federal Parties Rate on Climate
Short Version: What You Need to Know Conservatives: The Conservatives are at least clear: they don’t even pretend to care about climate change or that they will really do anything about…
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Building a Solar Dream in a Tar Sands Nightmare
After dealing with three decades of intensive oil, gas, logging, fracking and tar sands exploitation in our homeland, my community of Little Buffalo decided to forge a new future and become powered by the sun.
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Kwakwaka’wakw & Greenpeace: An Inevitable Alliance
Indigenous peoples are bound to the land; a connection created when our ancestors first walked the earth has been passed down from generation to generation. The desire to protect Mother…
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Return to Sonora: TimberWest in the Great Bear Rainforest
It was exactly 2 years ago today that I published a blog on Sonora Island – the southernmost end of the Great Bear Rainforest, within the traditional territories of Kwakwaka’wakw and Coast…
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Where can I learn how to change the world?
When I ask successful activist-organizers this question they basically all say the same thing: you learn by doing it. You jump right in and start acting, usually by joining an…
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When I ask successful activist-organizers this question they basically all say the same thing: you learn by doing it. You jump right in and start acting, usually by joining an…
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Major breakthrough for Ocean Lovers: UN takes landmark step towards high seas biodiversity agreement
It is time for Ocean Lovers worldwide to celebrate! After years of political foot-dragging, and four hectic days of negotiations at the United Nations, a breakthrough came in the wee hours of Saturday morning,…
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Resolute Forest Products “blocking” mill sale
Ontario NDP leader Andra Horwath is accusing Resolute Forest Products of “blocking” the sale of its shuttered Fort Frances mill to Wisconsin-based Expera Specialty Solutions. Prior to its final closure this year,…
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Greenpeace apology to Inuit for impacts of seal campaign
A seal pup and a hunter — and a Greenpeace activist standing between them. That’s the image many indigenous inhabitants of Northern Canada still see when someone says the word…