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Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau about Oil package bailout midst coronavirus crisis
COVID-19 is presenting real and immediate risks to people's health and livelihoods. It is appropriate and necessary for the federal government to make major interventions to keep people safe and healthy, to keep food on our tables and roofs over our heads.
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No New Money For Oil and Gas Companies—Give It To Workers—Say Large Collection of Groups Representing More Than One Million Canadians
March 24, 2020, Ottawa—A large collection of health, faith, environmental, labour and social justice groups, representing one million three hundred thousand Canadians, have sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau…
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Why we HAVE to make this stimulus green
We have an opportunity to come out of this public health crisis set up for a better future.
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Next steps on plastic for Canada – from science to a strong single-use plastic ban
In 2019, with the federal election just around the corner, the Trudeau government made a promise to ban single-use plastics by 2021. An important, albeit overdue, step in that process has now been completed with the release of the Draft Science Assessment on Plastic Pollution. So what next? Now’s the moment for the feds to…
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Next steps on plastic for Canada – from science to a strong single-use plastic ban
In 2019, with the federal election just around the corner, the Trudeau government made a promise to ban single-use plastics by 2021. An important, albeit overdue, step in that process has now been completed with the release of the Draft Science Assessment on Plastic Pollution. So what next? Now’s the moment for the feds to…
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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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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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STICKER SHOCK: Canadians reject Trans Mountain’s new price tag
February 19, 202 Support crumbles when costs exceed $12 billion, new poll finds OTTAWA – Only 16 per cent of Canadians approve of the federal government spending more than $12…
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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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Greenpeace welcomes Cabinet back to Ottawa with a burning call to Reject Teck
Just before dawn, Greenpeace Canada welcomed federal cabinet ministers back to the Hill with a fiery demand to reject the Teck Frontier Mine.