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Three Provinces and Climate Change: The Good, The Bad, and the Silent

Diane Beckett — May 20, 2016
The week was scarcely half over by the time three provincial governments or their advisors had weighed in on Canada’s emerging climate strategy. The stark differences in approach—from a visionary, ambitious program in Ontario, to outright climate denial in Saskatchewan—point to the challenges ahead in the effort to forge an effective, pan-Canadian response to climate change.

Our Friends in Alberta Need Our Support

Diane Beckett — May 6, 2016
Right now, tens of thousands of people from Fort McMurray and surrounding communities have fled the raging fires overtaking and threatening their neighbourhoods, their homes, their treasured keepsakes and memories, and their most basic sense of safety.

Leave Your Mark

Diane Beckett — April 22, 2016
You have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to leave your mark and push Canada towards a strong climate strategy – right now.

We’re Winning Now. Let's Bring it Home.

Diane Beckett — March 22, 2016
We’ve been hearing for years that climate change is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. That our children and theirs will judge us by what we did to stop the melting ice caps and the rising seas. That we’ll know we’re serious about climate change when we’ve mounted a peaceful mobilization on the scale of the Second World War to build a post-carbon world.