Month: May 2024

Climate Litigation Brought by Youth 

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Litigation is an important act of climate advocacy with mixed results in Canada and elsewhere.  Youth legal action over Ontario government’s climate targets A group of young Canadians is challenging Ontario’s roll back of relatively progressive climate targets.  https://environmentjournal.ca/nextgen-perspectives-youth-legal-action-over-ontario-governments-climate-inaction/ A successful litigation by American youth A group of 16 American youth won a climate case … Read more

Food Sovereignty and Sustenance at Six Nations 

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Consider attending this event on Mothers’ Day weekend – May 11 & 12, co-hosted by Six Nations of the Grand River and Waterloo University.  Chiefswood Park is in Oshweken on the Reserve and is a lovely spot to visit.  McMaster Indigenous Professor Kitty Lickers will be speaking on May 12 about food sovereignty and seed … Read more

Well Attended and Well-Received

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Nothing captured the spirit of the May 6/24 Housing Solutions Now! event more than Graham Cubitt’s proposed schedule for ground breaking ceremonies. If federal money was approved for Hamilton non-profit housing projects tomorrow (Tuesday May 7), he said, an Indwell project could start by Friday. Another ground breaking could be held in June and a third … Read more

Youth-Led Seedling Sales

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This month, we continue our focus on opportunities for youth engagement in Climate Action and successful youth-led organizations. Green Venture Youth-Led Seedling Sales May 11, 2024:10am-2pm  At Laidlaw United Church during SEW HUNGRY on Ottawa Street Address: 155 Ottawa Street North Find our table of veggie and herb seedlings, along with our Alley Planting and … Read more