activism

Chloe Fraser, a 23-year-old Vancouver writer, was named a top environmentalist under 25 for her accredited university course that teaches participants about the power of stories to motivate engagement in climate issues. 

Jose Reyeros sees his Latinx culture as a pathway to climate resilience. The 23-year-old University of British Columbia graduate is co-founder and leader of Ritmos Climáticos.

Old-growth activist Ben Holt recently pleaded guilty to mischief charges and vowed to give up his civil disobedience. “I can either continue in civil disobedience or I can continue in my marriage. I enthusiastically choose my marriage.”

Dozens of young Canadians are sounding the climate alarm in an open letter to Canadian politicians.

The amazing thing is that if cut to the core message, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg are pretty much saying the same thing at the UN climate conference: The hour is late and we are very far from where we need to be, writes Kairn Carrington.

Naomi Leung and fellow high school students leading Climate Education Reform BC believe schools must educate students to understand climate change is real and it will change everything.  

A group of young Asian Canadian women, seeing few role models who looked like them in politics or academia, met online at this year’s virtual Daughter of the Vote event and have since joined forces to raise their voices.

Patricia Lane introduces us to Sophia Yang and Threading Change, a group of international youth working for a feminist, fossil-free fashion future.

As the daughter of activists, Savi Gellatly-Ladd learned to organize at a young age.

“The climate issue is so intersectional. It hits housing, it hits social justice, the pandemic — we want to explore all of that,” says Abby Neufeld, co-founder of The New Twenties, a writers’ collective and magazine aiming to shape discourse around climate issues.

Not all people of colour are — or want to be — activists, so let's stop pigeonholing them, says Aysha Tabassum.

On the right, Kenney and Legault have repackaged conservative values as populist. On the left, it's less about parties and more about activists.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is the sixth person in history to become an honorary citizen of Canada.

The international ecojustice, anti-consumer activist sensation is launching his book, 'The Earth Wants You' in Canada for the first time.