{"id":8640,"date":"2019-05-03T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2025-07-02T04:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:20:27","slug":"advisory-indigenous-leaders-scientists-doctors-artists-and-youth-unite-in-call-for-the-pact-for-a-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/8640\/advisory-indigenous-leaders-scientists-doctors-artists-and-youth-unite-in-call-for-the-pact-for-a-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"ADVISORY: Indigenous leaders, Scientists, Doctors, Artists and Youth unite in call for  The Pact for a Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Media Advisory<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>FOR DISTRIBUTION ON May 3rd, 2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>MONTREAL (May 3rd, 2019) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u2013 A diverse cross-section of civil society endorsers will hold a press conference in three cities across Canada on Monday, May 6th, in Montreal, Toronto, and \u00a0Vancouver, to announce the launch of pan-canadian <\/span><b><i>The Pact for a Green New Deal<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The press conference in Toronto starts at 10 AM EST and in Vancouver at 1:30 PM EST.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In Montreal, the panel includes <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carole Brazeau, Anishinabe (Algonquin), Human rights protector and former Environment and Sustainable Development Coordinator at Quebec Native Women Inc.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will Prosper, film producer, journalist and civil rights activist.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Damon Matthews, professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, Department of Geography.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Eric Notebaert, Regroupement qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois des professionnels en sant\u00e9 pour l\u2019environnement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Jamie Latvaitis \u2013 Cospokesperson of <i>La plan\u00e8te s\u2019invite \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 and<\/i>\u00a0Climate Strike Canada.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dominic Champagne, instigator of Le Pacte pour la Transition and playwright.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Members of the press are invited to attend <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>DATE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monday, May 6<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>TIME:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 10:00 AM EST<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>VENUE: <\/b><b>Pavillon des Sciences biologiques (SB), 141 Avenue du Pr\u00e9sident-Kennedy, Montr\u00e9al, QC H2X 3X8, (UQAM) (M\u00e9tro Place-des-Arts: Exit UQAM)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the press outside Montreal are invited to join the livestream of the press conference (and add their questions in the comments\u2019 section):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laplanetealuniversite\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laplanetealuniversite\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>-30-<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>For questions about the press conference and\/or to book interviews with the panelists, please contact: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>In Montreal<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loujain Kurdi, Communications Officer &#8211; Greenpeace Canada in support of The Pact for a Green New Deal coalition, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:media@greennewdealcanada.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">media@greennewdealcanada.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> , 514-577-6657.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greennewdealcanada.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (up and running on May 6th)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In Toronto and in Vancouver, please contact:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heather Badenoch, \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:media@greennewdealcanada.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">media@greennewdealcanada.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u00a0613-859-8232.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Advisory FOR DISTRIBUTION ON May 3rd, 2019 MONTREAL (May 3rd, 2019) \u00a0\u2013 A diverse cross-section of civil society endorsers will hold a press conference in three cities across Canada&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,3],"tags":[23,24,25,27,29,31,32],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-live-sustainably","category-nature","tag-climate","tag-consumption","tag-energysolutions","tag-forests","tag-indigenous","tag-oceans","tag-oil","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71106,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/71106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}