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MEDIA ADVISORY: Youth March for Climate Justice in Ottawa18 February, 201918 February, 2019 (OTTAWA) – Following a four-day youth climate convergence conference, volunteers from PowerShift:Young& Rise – an intersectionnal growing movement that gathered youth from all backgrounds across Canada – are marching…
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Three reasons why plastics won’t save the oil industry15 February, 2019As electric vehicles and cheap solar panels cut into the demand for petroleum-based fuels, an increasingly desperate oil industry has been banking on plastics to drive future demand growth. Here…
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Youth have the Power to Shift, so Rise.13 February, 2019
It’s clear: we have 12 years to act. We are living in a climate emergency where floods, wildfires and rising sea levels are impacting us around the world- but you…
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Statement: Greenpeace supports NDP’s call to feds to ban single-use plastics12 February, 2019(MONTRÉAL) – In response to the NDP’s Waste Reduction Strategy announcement today calling for a ban of single-use plastics across Canada by 2022, a commitment for plastic packaging reduction targets,…
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Time for Tim Hortons’ Roll Up the Rim campaign to stop fuelling plastic pollution8 February, 2019It’s Roll Up the Rim time again across Canada with lovers of Tim Hortons’ popular rewards game flocking to Timmy Ho locations for their daily double double in hopes that…
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What is happening to 100 million hectares of forests in Russia?1 February, 2019Right now, vast swathes of Russia are covered in “illegal” forests. 10% of all the forest in Russia (that’s an area about twice the size of Spain) lies in areas…
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STATEMENT: Greenpeace Canada reaction to win on Supreme Court orphan wells case31 January, 201931 January 2019 (TORONTO) — In response to today’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that bankrupt energy companies cannot abandon their environmental clean-up responsibilities, Nader Hasan, counsel…
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STATEMENT: Walmart Canada heeds to public pressure and addresses plastic pollution23 January, 2019(MONTRÉAL) – In response to the announcement of Walmart Canada’s Charter on Plastics, a commitment to reduce plastic waste across its operations, Greenpeace Canada’s spokesperson for the Oceans & Plastics…
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Canada’s big supermarkets drowning you in plastic? Join thousands demanding change!18 January, 2019Did you happen to catch CBC Marketplace’s recent episode on excessive plastic packaging at Canada’s major retailers? Or the piece on The National?
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Ford government’s gutting of climate plan panned by 99% of consultation participants15 January, 2019More than 11,000 Ontarians participated in the Ford government’s public consultation on its Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, making it one of the largest responses in the 25-year history of…