ON 2024 Budget & Housing

Ontario budget has almost NOTHING NEW for affordable housing  Ontario’s 2024 budget dashed hopes for new housing investments. Released last week, the budget provides no new money for capital funding to build new non-profit housing. Nothing. There is new money for housing-related infrastructure and a bit of new money to operate supportive housing, some of … Read more

Fossil Fuels

‘No one is too young or too old to be a climate activist’: 98-year-old one of four seniors arrested for bank protest See the article in the April 2nd Hamilton Spectator. Members of our local Elders 4 Climate Sanity are committed to bringing the need for climate action and climate justice to our attention.  https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/no-one-is-too-young-or-too-old-to-be-a-climate-activist-98-year/article_58937f72-00f4-5ad1-aa9d-bac282615093.html … Read more

Celebrate Spring – Every Day is Earth Day

We celebrate spring with renewed attention to our relationship with the natural world and a commitment to be good stewards of our planet. Throughout April, the Climate team will link you to organizations and  events in Hamilton and area that focus on local climate solutions and activities.  From Green Venture Hamilton  Ask the Experts Open … Read more

Gender Expression of Plants and Animals

If you have access to CBC on your television, you might have been able to watch a new episode of  The Nature of Things that talked through many examples of animals and plants whose sex and/or gender expression change during their time on earth. As someone who is genderqueer it wasn’t hard being sucked inside … Read more