Carrie Saxifrage
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About Carrie Saxifrage
Carrie Saxifrage has written for the Vancouver and National Observer since 2006. She is the author of The Big Swim: Coming Ashore in a World Adrift (2015), which Bill McKibben called “serious adventure on a serious planet.” Carrie also wrote Extract: The Pipeline Wars in 2012.
When the RCMP moved on Fairy Creek protesters’ last stronghold
Carrie Saxifrage ventures seven kilometres down a logging road to see the last remaining camp at Fairy Creek and witness the Bridge of Matriarchs, a structure where four women in their 70s have chained themselves.
LNG BC ferries don't deliver environmental promise
LNG fueled ferries result in little or no net greenhouse gas reduction. But that hasn't stopped BC Ferries from buying them.
Meet some of the Burnaby Mountain injuction defendants
For several months, a number of people have slowed progress at Kinder Morgan's Burnaby Mountain site, often using their bodies to block traffic. We caught up with a few of them outside of the B.C. Supreme Court.
What I learned in Mexico about violence against women that everyone should know
In Mexico City I met Maria, 20. She lives in one of Mexico City’s poorest neighborhoods where violence is a part of life. “Throughout my life, I’ve witnessed many situations of violence that I didn’t even know were violence,” she told me. “I’ve been in violent relationships that I thought were normal. Now I wonder, 'Why is it men can hit us?'"
Polar bear prints throughout history: Michael Engelhard and the "Ice Bear"
Perhaps our fascination for polar bears arise from their similarities to humans. We each, in our way, have been "master existences."
The visions of Frances Deverell
If we spent money on computers and electrification and high speed transmission wires and networks for matching up complex energy inputs and outputs, those would be very sexy, high paying jobs.
David Trowbridge's baby boomer activism for sustainability
David Trowbridge of Clean North hates to see trees cut down. "It's almost like they're cutting me," he said. So he's working on tree by-law for the City of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Winnipeg: decolonization and being a good ally
The declaration by Maclean's magazine that Winnipeg is Canada's most racist city mortified those residents who have been working for years to become "good settlers."
Chickadee Richard, Anishinaabe elder: Live your prayer
Chickadee Richard: "I don't know why our movement is called 'Idle No More.' I've never been idle."
Chantal Stormsong Chagnon: Out of the frying pan and into the 8th Fire
Chantal Chagnon presents First Nations culture to schools, universities and other public forums, with some politics thrown in.