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Behind the headlines: 6 need-to-know facts about the Teck Frontier mine
You’ve read it in the headlines. You’ve heard about it on the radio. But what actually is the Teck Frontier mine and why does it matter? Here’s what you need…
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What is Teck Frontier and how to reject a tar sands mine in 7 easy steps
Teck’s proposed Frontier Mine (“Teck mine”) is a new open pit mine to extract bitumen from the Alberta tar sands. If approved and built, it would be one of the…
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How to stop food waste: a comprehensive guide
58% of all food produced in Canada — 35.5 million tonnes — is lost or wasted every year. Globally, food waste is responsible for 8% of global GHGs. Let's ensure the food we buy makes it onto our plates and stays out of landfills.
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Teck Frontier, one of the largest tar sands mining projects ever
It’s one of the largest tar sands mining project ever proposed. This summer we all watched as extreme wildfires burned all over the world. This month we saw as…
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Wet’suwet’en standoff shows we need more than words from Horgan and Trudeau.
It’s shameful. On December 3rd, B.C. Premier John Horgan said he counts the passing of legislation to enshrine the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) into…
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Australian bushfires: what you can do
My heart has been breaking watching the ecological catastrophe playing out in Australia over the past several months. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and dozens of human lives have…
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‘Turtle Journey’ shows us why we urgently need to protect the oceans
Climate breakdown, plastic, oil drilling and overfishing have driven our oceans to a breaking point, but it is a story that doesn’t get told often enough. Which is why we’ve…
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Clearcutting wind farms is no way to create jobs
Spending hundreds of millions to build wind farms and then knock them down probably isn’t a great economic strategy. Yet it’s become the Ford government’s signature move, thanks to a…
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You are Greenpeace. Thank you!
Thank you for supporting Greenpeace in 2019! Every action you’ve taken, petition you’ve signed, and generous donation you’ve given — it all makes a difference and adds up to an…
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Doug Ford’s school cuts ended the environmental program that changed my life
High school senior Ciara Rieder shares her story of how Doug Ford's education funding cuts ended her school's world-class environmental leadership program.