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clean electricity regulations

Clean Electricity Regulations

We are living through multiple emergencies, with fewer and fewer people able to escape the impacts of the escalating climate ...
Communities, Not Corporations: Transition for People and the Planet

Transition for People and the Planet, Webinar on May 24

You know as well as we do that Canada’s transition away from fossil fuels needs to be a process that ...
Climate Justice is Labour Justice #RaisetheBar

Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Out of the Kitchen! – A new report from our allies at the Worker Solidarity Network

Workers across sectors are already feeling the negative impacts of the climate crisis. After years of increasingly severe weather, we’ve ...
The Council of Canadians Atlantic Region

Spring 2023 Chapter Update: Atlantic Region

In the past four years, the world has faced many challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to reimagine what solidarity ...
The Council of Canadians Pacific Region

Spring 2023 Chapter Update: Pacific Region

After many years of living in colder climates to the east, I’m grateful to be back home on the unceded ...
Just Transition explainer: Reducing our Emissions

Canada must set and meet climate targets that address the crisis

The Canadian federal government must do its fair share to reduce domestic emissions, while supporting other countries to reduce their ...
Canada's Sustainable Jobs Plan: It's Complicated

Canada’s Sustainable Jobs Plan: It’s Complicated

The federal government has released its Sustainable Jobs Plan, which outlines the government’s strategy for advancing a workforce development agenda ...
Just Transition Explainer: Winding Down the Fossil Fuel Industry

Just Transition Explainer: Winding Down the Fossil Fuel Industry

What to know In order for the climate to remain stable enough for organized human civilization to endure, we must ...
Climate Groups Sound the Alarm on Public Transit Death Spiral

Climate Groups Sound the Alarm on Public Transit Death Spiral

15 environmental groups signed an open letter calling on Minister Freeland for federal funding to save public transit systems ...
Repeal Bill 23

We can, and must, resist Ford’s sprawl agenda

Ford's sprawl agenda is an all-out attack on environmental protection ...
Flood Parliament text on image of Parliament Hill with letters to MPs

Will the federal “sustainable jobs plan” mean a just transition?

The federal government has released its interim “Sustainable Jobs Plan” – aka its preliminary just transition strategy. There’s good news ...
Flood Parliament with messages to your MP

We need a just transition not another bailout for fossil fuel CEOs

Are you fed up with corporations hoarding wealth while the rest of us are bearing the brunt of inflation, inequality, ...