All articles by Jesse Firempong
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Greenpeace: Conditions on federal business support are preparation for “new rules after the crisis”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 May 2020 TORONTO – Today, the federal government announced additional financial support for big businesses under the new Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility (LEEFF) program, which…
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We need YOU to help shape the post-pandemic economic recovery
We are a generation of makers, activists, farmers, craftivists, innovators, dreamers, artists and caregivers showing our leaders the change society needs in the economic recovery after COVID-19.
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Greenpeace Canada response to federal oil & gas funding package
no dedicated bailout money for oil (they could already access the general pot of money)$1.6B for oil well clean-up, but fed money comes with the conditions we have requested (AB…
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10 simple ways to care for each other during the COVID-19 pandemic
The new coronavirus, COVID-19, has many of us glued to the news cycle, concerned for vulnerable loved ones, and adapting our lives to deal with the changes the pandemic is…
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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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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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“We’re in a sacred story”: The meaning of the #RejectTeck bird you’re seeing everywhere
If you’re involved in the climate and Indigenous rights movements in Canada, you’ve probably seen this beautiful bird design a lot. But you might not know the artist, Isaac Murdoch.
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Air pollution from fossil fuels costs Canada US$38 billion every year: Greenpeace
A new Greenpeace report shows that air pollution from burning fossil fuels is also attributed to an estimated 21,000 premature deaths.
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What you might not know about Indigenous law and the raids on Wet’suwet’en
The complexity of what laws and whose laws apply is something you won’t often see reflected by media organizations. With the help of Ricochet journalists, we summarized what you need to know.
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Statement on arrests of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders and solidarity protesters
RCMP helicopter drops off tactical teams in Wet’suwet’en territory. February 2020. © Jerome Turner/Ricochet FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 February 2020 OTTAWA – In response to the dozens of arrests of…