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BMO’s take on climate greenwashing
Greenpeace activists disrupted BMO Financial Group's conference on climate action, at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal. The activists unfolded banners to remind the crowd that BMO continues to fund climate destruction and violate the rights of indigenous peoples, despite the banks attempt to convince the public of the contrary.
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Greenpeace Canada complaint spurs formal inquiry into Pathways Alliance ad campaign
TORONTO – The Competition Bureau has announced that it will launch an official investigation into the marketing practices of the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of the six largest oil sands…
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Wildfires and climate change burn their way into Alberta election campaign
Election campaigning is on hold in at least a half-dozen ridings in Alberta where wildfires are threatening homes and lives.
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Greenpeace Victory: Defamation Lawsuit Filed by Resolute Forest Products Dismissed in the USA
This monumental victory comes almost ten years after logging giant Resolute launched a series of lawsuits to silence Greenpeace Canada, Greenpeace USA, individual activists and its own independent auditors over concerns with its operations in the boreal forest and its impact on dwindling woodland caribou herds.
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Greenpeace calls for Imperial Oil to be charged over Kearl spill, projects message on Supreme Court
Greenpeace Canada projected a message on the walls of the Supreme Court of Canada, calling for the federal government to charge Imperial Oil in connection with the leaks and a spill at a tailings pond at its Kearl Oil sands operation.
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New report: RBC jumps to world’s #1 fossil fuel financier
Despite increasing fires and floods, Canadian banks are laggards and fossil fuel “lenders of last resort”
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Nouveau rapport : RBC devient le numéro un mondial des bailleurs de fonds pour les combustibles fossiles
Malgré la multiplication des incendies et des inondations, les banques canadiennes demeurent à la traîne et constituent des « bailleurs de fonds de dernier recours » pour les combustibles fossiles
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Was COP15 a turning point for nature?
This past December, Canada hosted a decade-defining conference on biodiversity — the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Let's see how it went.
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Indigenous land defenders, climate allies bring shareholder showdown to RBC’s AGM
RBC proved it has no interest in reconciliation, furthering corporate colonialism in how the bank treated the Indigenous delegation who arrived at the bank’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Saskatoon this morning as hundreds of Indigenous water protectors, young people, and allies rallied outside.
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HAPPENING NOW: RBC refuses to let Indigenous delegates, including Wet’suwet’en Hereditary leadership, Gulf South representatives into AGM in Saskatoon
RBC’s attempt to divide and threaten with arrest and physical violence the Indigenous delegation – who all have received necessary proxies – and shut out Wet’suwet’en Hereditary leadership is further confirmation of the bank’s commitment to corporate colonialism. RBC is the primary financier of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which lacks consent from Hereditary Chiefs, the…