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Serena Mendizabal, a Wolf Clan member of the Cayuga Nation in Six Nations, is ensuring any development on the area known as the Haldimand Tract, comprising six miles on each side of the Grand River, occurs only with the consent of chiefs and clan mothers.
The emergencies the RCMP's Community-Industry Response Group manages have been primarily the enforcement of corporate injunctions against Indigenous people and environmental activists at extractive sites.
The wildfires in Alberta are just the latest reminder of how omnipresent the climate crisis has become. So why hasn't the campaign focused more on climate issues — and what does that say about politics right now? asks columnist Max Fawcett.
Given the fossil fuel industry’s track record, there is good reason to mistrust the motives behind the oilsands consortium’s sudden commitment to joining the fight against climate change.
Are NDP governments bad for the economy? As history shows, it's quite the opposite — and that's a story Rachel Notley's NDP needs to start telling before it's too late, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
In 2022, 22-year-old Ashoke Mohanraj was named one of Starfish Canada’s Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 after writing a best-selling children’s book, Pollinator Man, aimed at helping children become more engaged with their role in defending our planet.
