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The fossil fuel industry’s “genderwashing” exposes another layer of their hypocrisy
Every year when International Women’s Day comes around on the 8th of March, it’s now normal to see corporations jumping on the opportunity to make their brands appear more interested in gender equality. Companies organise…
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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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This. Is. BIG. We WON the #RejectTeck campaign!
I’ve rarely seen a campaign win like this before. In a surprising move, Teck, the company behind a proposal to build a massive new mine in Alberta to extract tar…
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What is Justin Trudeau reading? A #RejectTeck reading list
We hope you read the books we delivered to you this afternoon. Maybe even with children in your life. We hope you find them enlightening and inspiring (books and children alike!). As parents, we work so hard to teach our children simple morals, but it is perilously easy to slip into convenience over conviction, even…
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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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6 ways to break up with plastic and food waste on Valentine’s Day
You are probably wondering what kind of Valentine’s Day blog article would focus on a “break up”. Well, welcome to our funny, not so romantic, blue-sky world. My blue sky Valentine’s Day is filled with kindness, gender equality, positive vibes, love between all species, less plastic and mass consumption and more DIY gifts and local…
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How to protect the caribou in 3 easy steps
18 animals in 2016, only 7 left in early 2020. As we face an unprecedented decline in global biodiversity, the Val-d’Or caribou herd is fighting for its survival.
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Reaction to the exceptional measures put in place on the Val-d’Or caribou
Québec – In reaction to the Québec government’s announcement regarding the Val-d’Or caribou herd, which had 18 individuals in 2016 and now number just seven, Marie-Josée Béliveau, Food & Nature…
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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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RCMP Are Raiding Wet’suwet’en Land Defender Camps
BREAKING: The RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en camps Early this morning RCMP began their raid on Wet’suwet’en camps set-up to defend their lands against a fracked gas pipeline, Coastal GasLink, that…