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People’s Party’s Bernier Max’d out on ‘mass immigration,’ climate-emergency claims

September 25, 2019 admin 2019 federal election, canadian election, election 2019, environment, immigration, local news, Maxime Bernier, national, people's party of canada, politics

Credit to Author: Lori Culbert| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:34:21 +0000

The leader of the new People’s Party of Canada talks to Postmedia about his chances in B.C., where the PPC has nominated candidates in nearly every riding

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Logging truck convoy drives home message about dire state of B.C. forest industry

September 25, 2019 admin environment, forestry, local news, municipal government

Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:13:21 +0000

Log haulers say they have lost work because sawmill closures mean they are no longer needed to carry logs to the mills.

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Everest Is Melting, Revealing Tons of Garbage and Human Bodies

September 24, 2019 admin climate change, climbing mount everest, crisis, dead, dead bodies, environment, environmental extremes, Everest, everest dead bodies, Garbage, India, Mount Everest, mountaineering, Mt. Everest, Nepal, sherpas, snow, trash

Credit to Author: Omkar Khandekar| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:36:41 +0000

Due to decades of commercial mountaineering and climate change, the worlds tallest mountain is becoming “the world’s highest garbage dump.”

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Youth lead the charge as more than 15,000 expected to attend Friday's climate strike at Vancouver City Hall

September 23, 2019 admin climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, environment, global climate change, local news

Credit to Author: Cheryl Chan| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:25:49 +0000

Close to 50 businesses will close their doors Friday in support of Friday’s for Future movement’s climate change rally in Vancouver

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Stop Asking People of Colour to Get Arrested to Protest Climate Change

September 18, 2019 admin climate change, environment, environmental justice, opinión, United Kingdom

Credit to Author: Tatiana Garavito| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:40:53 +0000

Extinction Rebellion is overwhelmingly shaped by the concerns, priorities, and ideas of middle-class white people. If it doesn’t tackle white supremacy, it doesn’t serve us.

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The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History

September 13, 2019 admin activism, climate change, environment, Environmentalism, green movement, Indigenous, RACE, tipping point

Credit to Author: Julian Brave NoiseCat| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:42:07 +0000

Because racism in environmentalism hasn’t gone away, and it’s holding the movement back.

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Douglas Todd: 'Values chasm' between young and old matters in this election, says pollster

September 12, 2019 admin 2019 federal election, columnists, environment, local news, multiculturalism, national, politics, staff blog: the search, staff blogs

Credit to Author: Douglas Todd| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 02:03:38 +0000

Canadians under 35 are generally more “libertarian,” less nationalistic and more likely to celebrate differences among people

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Residents of a Siberian Town With Black Snow Are Pleading for Asylum in Canada

September 12, 2019 admin black snow, Canada, climate change, environment, environmental refugees, kiselyovsk, Russia, siberia, tipping point

Credit to Author: Sarah Emerson| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:51:59 +0000

Residents of Kiselyovsk, the heart of Russia’s coal-mining industry, are asking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accept them as environmental refugees. But they don’t stand a chance.

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