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Green New Deal Launch
Large, Diverse, Non-partisan Coalition of Youth, Artists, Scientists, Indigenous Leaders and Groups Calls for Green New Deal for Canada Urgent climate action must cut emissions in half within 11 years…
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Biodiversity loss: urgent need for forest, ocean protection and dietary change
Toronto- The UN’s biodiversity report warning of mass species loss due to human impacts must spark urgent action to protect the world’s forests and oceans and lead to sweeping change…
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ADVISORY: Indigenous leaders, Scientists, Doctors, Artists and Youth unite in call for The Pact for a Green New Deal
Media Advisory FOR DISTRIBUTION ON May 3rd, 2019 MONTREAL (May 3rd, 2019) – A diverse cross-section of civil society endorsers will hold a press conference in three cities across Canada…
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Updated: Doctors’ group, environmental groups and residents call on Toronto’s City Council to hold big polluters accountable for climate costs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 25 APRIL 2019 TORONTO — Toronto residents and organizations held a press conference this morning to announce their support for a motion before the City of Toronto…
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REACTION – Ford Government hands a rotten egg to Ontario’s wildlife just in time for Easter
Responding to today’s proposals by the Ontario government to amend the Endangered Species Act, Head of Forest Campaign with Greenpeace Canada Shane Moffatt commented: “The Ford government is proposing to…
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REACTION – Kenney sowing division for political gain
In response to the elections of Jason Kenney, Mike Hudema, Greenpeace Canada’s Climate and Energy Campaigner, said: “Common courtesy might suggest that we give Jason Kenney the benefit of the…
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Canadian tar sands emissions now larger than entire provinces ofQuebec, British-Columbia or Manitoba.
April 16, 2019 (TORONTO) – According to Canada’s submission to the United Nations (2019 National Inventory Report 1990-2017), Canada’s 2017 national emissions increased by 8 MT bringing it up to…
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Greenpeace activists ship plastic monster back to Nestlé
(Montreal) – Greenpeace activists in Canada, the U.S., Switzerland, and several other countries around the world [1] unveiled “plastic monsters” covered with branded plastic packaging at Nestlé offices and consumer…
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Premier Ford’s 2019 budget is “the most anti-environmental budget in Ontario” since Walkerton
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 APRIL 2019 TORONTO — Keith Stewart, Senior Energy Strategist with Greenpeace Canada, said the following in response to the 2019 Ontario budget: “The 35 per cent…
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30×30: groundbreaking scientific study maps out how to protect a third of the world’s oceans by 2030
CANADA – As governments meet at the UN to negotiate towards an historic Global Ocean Treaty, a groundbreaking study by leading marine biologists has mapped out how to protect over a third…