Jane Fonda

Actress and activist Jane Fonda is campaigning for a treaty to save marine creatures that are hunted for food including sharks, swordfish, octopus and tuna, saying they feel joy, feel sadness when they lose their offspring, and “are our brethren in the ocean.”

Also catching up with Eddie Murphy and a minor romantic comedy

Hollywood’s response to climate change includes donations, protests and other activism. but it’s apparently missing out on an approach close to home.

Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is no longer a taboo discussion, thanks to an international alliance to halt oil and gas production, leading climate experts told actor and longtime environmentalist Jane Fonda on Friday.

Anti-pipeline activists are accusing Canadian energy giant Enbridge of setting a disturbing precedent by providing funds for policing its Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota — and opponents worry Indigenous women who oppose the project are deliberately being targeted.

Canadian author Alice Munro and dozens of other Nobel Prize winners around the world have joined the heated opposition facing a massive oilsands project in northern Alberta, decrying the proposed development as "a disgrace."

As the shine comes off Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the SNC-Lavalin affair, oped writer Harry Sterling recalls that the widespread positive view of the young Canadian politician’s performance was questioned in 2017 by Jane Fonda, the well-known American movie actress and prominent environmental activist.

The U.S. film star and Oscar winner said she made the visit to learn about the impact of oilsands development on First Nations and to support their opposition to pipelines.

Klein, David Suzuki and Jane Fonda talk with Fram Dinshaw in a National Observer video filmed at the march for climate action on Sunday.