Jenny Uechi
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About Jenny Uechi
Jenny Uechi is the publisher of Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia.
Help, we're about to be hit by climate change!
An extinction event is coming, so do look up. Or is there a better story?
Environmental groups applaud Quebec’s ban on fossil fuel exploration
In a groundbreaking move, Quebec Premier François Legault announced the province will "definitively renounce the extraction of hydrocarbons on its territory" during a speech Tuesday.
Canada’s race to net-zero and the role of renewable energy
As the UN climate talks draw near, Canada has enormous work left to do to reach its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Greta Thunberg's speech at Youth4Climate hits hard at 'empty words and promises'
"Thirty years of blah, blah, blah," Greta Thunberg said in a speech Tuesday. "Net zero by 2025. By 2050! This is all we hear from our leaders. Words that sound great, but so far have led to no action. Our hopes and dreams drowned in their empty words and promises."
Young people demand rich countries take more responsibility for global warming in Africa
Youth activists in major cities in Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Nigeria, Uganda, Togo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo staged protests, delivered petitions to leaders, and dropped banners protesting climate change.
Yazidi women face nightmarish healing process. Here's what Canadians can do to help.
Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman from Iraq who was forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State, won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Congolese gynecologist and surgeon Denis Mukwege for "their efforts to end use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
Notley's punishing push back
Premier Rachel Notley pulled Alberta out of the national climate agreement Thursday until the federal government gets the Trans Mountain pipeine expansion back on track.