Last month, 15 kids and teenagers filed a lawsuit against the federal government for putting their lives at risk through dangerous climate change. One of them was 15-year- old Ira Reinhart-Smith from Caledonia—almost two hours outside of Halifax, on the way to Kejimkujik National Park. “This is the biggest threat that humanity has ever faced,” says […]
Extinction rebellion
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Halifax youth are dying-in and marching out in the name of climate change action
On a Friday afternoon in February, 17-year-old Citadel High School students Willa Fisher and Julia Sampson stood among the 300 hundred youth they’d organized chanting for Halifax’s first Fridays for Future student strike. Now, with three strikes under their belts and the support of a community of resources, Fisher and Sampson are organizing their most […]
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Why Nova Scotia is the perfect place to fight for climate justice
Nova Scotia is a perfect battleground for the fight for climate justice. This place is not characterized by ease or sensationalism. The ways that our gentle hills rise from our 7,400 kilometres of coastline became spectacular to me only after years of reflection. The wealth of plant life that inundates everything only became remarkable when […]