Tag Archives: climate change

Radio — Unions, the climate crisis, and the latest UN climate conference

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Scott

Dave Bleakney is the second national vice-president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). In that role, he attended the COP 25 United Nations climate change conference in Madrid in December. Scott Neigh interviews him about how his union … Continue reading →

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Radio — Standing up for workers, communities, and the climate

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Scott

Rebecca Keetch has been an autoworker at the General Motors (GM) assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario since 2006. GM has said they will close the plant by the end of the year. Tiffany Balducci is the president of the Durham … Continue reading →

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Radio — Canadian Catholics mobilizing in response to the climate crisis

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Scott

Marisa Vertrees is the organizing director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), a network of almost 900 Catholic religious orders, dioceses, universities, lay organizations, and other insitutions in more than 90 countries. Agnes Richard is the co-ordinator of the … Continue reading →

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Radio — The youth climate strike movement in Canada

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Scott

Emma Lim is 18 years old and is a high school student in London, Ontario. Rebecca Hamilton is 17 years old and also a high school student, and she lives in Vancouver, BC. They are organizers with Climate Strike Canada … Continue reading →

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Radio — Organizing in small-town Nova Scotia to stop offshore drilling

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Scott

Marilyn Keddy is a social worker and a long-time activist who lives in an active lobster fishing cove near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Peter Puxley is also a long-time activist, and has worked as an economist and a journalist. Scott Neigh … Continue reading →

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Radio — Inspiring community action on climate change through film

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Scott

Kai Reimer-Watts is a filmmaker and a community activist based in Waterloo, Ontario. His first feature-length documentary is Beyond Crisis, “a meditative call to action that explores what it means to be living in this new era of climate change, … Continue reading →

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Radio — Building community resilience in the face of climate change

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Scott

Sheila Murray, Beatrice Ekoko, Lidia Ferreira, and Michelle Sullivan all work in some capacity with an initiative called the Lighthouse Project, a pilot that aims to develop new approaches for building resilience in a number of Ontario communities in the … Continue reading →

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