All articles by itsahashtaglife
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Ask 5+: A strategy to encourage friends and family to VOTE!
Using your personal networks to turn additional voters out to the polls is incredibly powerful. “Asking 5 or more people to vote” is proven to turnout an average of 5.09…
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Abortion: Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party Don’t Have a Good Track Record
As with everything to do with politicians who are trying to get voted in, you need to look at the history and the nuance.
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JOIN: Federal Leaders Debate Night BINGO! and Town Hall
Join us for the federal elections 2025 leadership debate BINGO party!
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How to manage eco-anxiety: Advice from a climate activist
“The moon is following us home again!” My daughter exclaimed as she always does. “But why is it red?” Her question hit me with the weight of the realization that with the moon, the climate crisis, too, is following us home.
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Low Waste Holiday Gift Guide
For those of you looking to bring some cheer to friends and family this season while reducing Holiday waste to care for the planet, here are some low-waste Holiday gift ideas to get you started.
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Can’t decide on a real vs. fake Christmas tree? Try one of these eco-friendly options
Alongside zero waste wrapping, we can now add ‘the great tree debate’ to the list of viral Holiday eco-trends worth unpacking: which is more sustainable, a real tree or a fake tree?
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The future of holiday gifting is secondhand. But we can start right now.
We won’t transform our linear take-make-waste economy into a sustainable circle overnight - putting repair, reuse and recirculation at the heart of our economic system will take government support and intervention to bend the linear line of consumption into a true circle. But there is something we can all do right now to shift the…
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Never Buy Gift Paper Again: the Ultimate Guide to Zero Waste Wrapping
Canadians generate 545,000 tonnes of waste from gift wrapping and shopping bags every year — that’s the equivalent of 100,000 elephants if you need a visual. Here are 12 techniques to rethink how you wrap up your gifts this year.
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Your Non-Shopping Shopping List: Buy Nothing and Still Get What You Need on Black Friday
“Between 60-80 percent of the impacts on the planet come from household consumption. If we change our consumption habits, this would have a drastic effect on our environmental footprint as…
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New poll shows most Canadians want the government to do this one thing in response to COVID-19 — but are those who hold the purse strings listening?
A new poll commissioned by Greenpeace Canada has revealed that 62% of Canadians believe “now is the right time” for the federal government to address long-standing problems like inequality, climate…