On Nov. 1, Abby Herd helped lead a group of Simon Fraser University students over the finish line as they won an eight-year campaign to persuade the administration to divest from fossil fuels by 2025.
For a brief moment in time, public-minded values like community engagement and communal decision-making were allowed to eclipse private interests, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Some topics are just too big to be covered in one column. That’s why, over the next two weeks, Max Fawcett will tackle the housing crisis and the ways we could address it in a series of them. First up: the need for more federal leadership.
Ahmed Hussen says tamping down on the rush for investment properties and flipping, as well as discouraging foreign investors from holding on to vacant homes, is also part of a push to rein in rising home prices.
Marches erupted across the country to show solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en who are fighting to stop Coastal Gaslink's LNG pipeline from being built in their territory.
"For too long, the political conversation around density and development in our biggest cities has been dominated by a relatively small group of privileged homeowners."
In June, Birmingham, U.K., did what few other cities outside London have had the temerity to do and imposed a fee on high-polluting vehicles entering certain city zones.
The global climate justice movement focused its protest energy directly on big banks who bankroll new and expanded fossil fuel projects on Friday, with Royal Bank of Canada marked as enemy No. 1 in actions across Canada.