It’s Election Day in Canada. You Know What to Do. – The Energy Mix
If you’ve already voted in the advance poll, well done! If not, get yourself out to the polling station and cast your ballot early, before the lines get longer.
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Your Ultimate #VoteClimate Guide to Election 2019
Climate change and the environment has emerged as the number one issue for voters as we enter the final weekend before election day Oct. 21 2019, with a quarter (25%) of voters polled saying it’s the most important election issue to them. As you consider your options, here’s all you need to know to #voteclimate.
An astonishing 4.7 million Canadians voted in advance polls over the October 11-14 long weekend – a 29% increase over advance voting participation compared with 2015. But there are still millions of Canadians deciding who to cast their ballot for. Here, we share some essential resources from Climate Action Network – Réseau action climat (CAN-Rac) Canada, members, and allies:
Andrew Scheer Has a Shockingly Bad Housing Plan That Could Leave Canadians With Riskier Debt
Not you….
The Conservative leader’s platform offers a pretty bad solution to Canada’s housing affordability crisis — more debt.
Greta Thunberg’s visit to Alberta was no ordinary celebrity drop-in – Macleans.ca
Before Greta
Thunberg rode an electric car into Alberta, many celebrity activists
before her had arrived to demand climate action: Leonardo DiCaprio, Neil
Young, Jane Fonda
and others. There’s a significant difference that has nothing do with
the age of the Swedish teen, or that, unlike many an entertainment
figure leveraging fame for a virtuous cause, the climate fight is
Thunberg’s calling card.
Thunberg rode an electric car into Alberta, many celebrity activists
before her had arrived to demand climate action: Leonardo DiCaprio, Neil
Young, Jane Fonda
and others. There’s a significant difference that has nothing do with
the age of the Swedish teen, or that, unlike many an entertainment
figure leveraging fame for a virtuous cause, the climate fight is
Thunberg’s calling card.
What’s new this time—and detractors like Premier Jason Kenney et al
should take note—is that Thunberg isn’t putting on a solo show for the
cameras. She led a crowd. An estimated 4,000 at a youth- and
Indigenous-led rally in downtown Edmonton. And this was the second
climate protest of this scale in the city in as many months. The actors’
and musicians’ method was to draw attention to oil sands. Thunberg
draws attention differently, declaring that she’s far from alone in
raising the alarm about an overheated planet—and that’s the case even in
Canada’s petro-province.
We owe Greta and the youth more than a Nobel Prize | rabble.ca
Sioux youth Tokata Iron Eyes invited Greta
to Standing Rock, North Dakota, where the Sioux and their allies tried
for years to block construction of a pipeline that now carries fracked
Bakken shale oil to an Illinois refinery, saying it puts water, rights
and climate at risk. She said she and Greta shouldn’t have to do this.
“No 16-year-old should have to travel the world in the first place
sharing a message about having something as simple as clean water and
fresh air to breathe,” she told The Guardian.
to Standing Rock, North Dakota, where the Sioux and their allies tried
for years to block construction of a pipeline that now carries fracked
Bakken shale oil to an Illinois refinery, saying it puts water, rights
and climate at risk. She said she and Greta shouldn’t have to do this.
“No 16-year-old should have to travel the world in the first place
sharing a message about having something as simple as clean water and
fresh air to breathe,” she told The Guardian.
But those racing to extract as much of Earth’s limited fossil fuel supplies as possible before markets fall in the face of better, less-expensive alternatives
and an accelerating climate crisis don’t seem to care about clean air,
water and land. Politicians see fossil fuels as a way to boost
short-term economic growth, often blinded to any vision extending beyond
the next election. Industry heads see massive profits and continuation
of privilege.