climate emergency

• Advocacy group calls on Calgary to ban gas-powered leaf blowers

  Project Calgary launched the petition last week with the goal of presenting it to city council once it has amassed enough support.

  Environment

  Apr 19
  
• Proposed climate action plan for London, Ont. endorsed by city committee

  First unveiled in early February, a 130-page draft version of the plan was formally tabled during Tuesday's meeting of the strategic priorities and policy committee.

  Canada

  Apr 6
  
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• Vancouver mayor proposes a climate levy

  If it's adopted by city council, Kennedy Stewart says the money raised from the levy would be used to cover infrastructure upgrades needed because of climate change.

  Environment

  Nov 24, 2021
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• Trudeau says B.C. flooding shows climate change impacts have arrived ‘sooner than expected’

  Trudeau made the comments during an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the devastating flooding in B.C. and other extreme weather events across Canada this year.

  Canada

  Nov 24, 2021
• Anxious about climate change? Here’s what you need to know about ‘ecological grief’

  Psychologists are noticing more and more instances of ecological grief. What it is and what you can do about it.

  Environment

  Nov 19, 2021
• ‘A parade of storms’: What’s behind all the downpours on the ‘wet coast’ this fall?

  What’s behind the huge downpours that have left parts of B.C. soaked, and will climate change make them worse?

  Weather

  Nov 16, 2021
• Penticton youth rally to demand action on climate change

  Youth-led demonstrations will occcur on the last Friday of each month in Penticton, rally organizers said.

  Environment

  Sep 26, 2021
• London, Ont. councillors suspend Wonderland Road widening in light of climate-focused review

  The review was conducted using the Climate Emergency Screen Tool (CEST), which was born out of city council's declaration of a climate emergency in 2019.

  Politics

  Sep 14, 2021
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• ‘A sendoff back to nature’: Montreal cemetery offers green burials

  More people are thinking about the environmental impact of human burials — for example, the seeping of toxic embalming fluids into groundwater.

  Environment

  Aug 28, 2021
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• Trudeau invited to Biden administration’s first global climate talks

  According to U.S. administration officials, the event will be one the U.S. hopes will help shape, speed up and deepen global efforts to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuel pollution.

  Canada

  Mar 26, 2021