Canadian News
ICYMI: CCL Canada Featured in an Activist Guidebook
Read moreThe Guidebook draws upon four case studies of successful climate mobilizers. Climate mobilizers are dynamic leaders in organizations inspiring citizens to take part in climate action. Their common link is in finding ways of bringing people into the climate movement, whether on a neighbourhood sidewalk or inside government chamber walls.
BLOG: Organizing a climate strike by Caterina Lindman
Read moreHaving strikes in our local area is a way to amplify Greta’s message and to exercise our own power in showing how urgent it is to avert climate collapse. If we don’t act with urgency, the world will suffer immensely due to ocean acidification, sea level rise, more droughts and storms, and wildfires. We need to restructure our economies and society to live within sustainable ecological limits, and we seem to be unable to grasp the urgency of the crisis.
BLOG: A Thank You to All the Unsung Heroes by Cathy Lacroix
Read moreAll our members at Citizens’ Climate Lobby are unsung heroes. We don’t do this work for profit or for glory, we do it because it’s the right thing to do. We can be part of something that really matters. I remember hearing Marshall Saunders say that he used to think the important people would take care of the important things. Apparently, that must make us the important people because our politicians have let us down on the climate issue. We’re the ones doing the work.
MEDIA RELEASE: Toronto Youth Strike for Climate: Student Demand Voice on Climate Plan
Read moreJanuary 11, 2019 (Toronto, ON): Climatefast, FridaysforFuture GTA and Citizens’ Climate Lobby Toronto are holding a Youth Climate Rally at Queen’s Park Friday, January 11, from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. This rally is being held in solidarity with 11 other climate rallies across Canada as part of the global FridaysforFuture climate movement inspired by the teenage Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg.
BLOG: I’m Skipping School for Climate Emergency!
Read moreI’m in grade 11, and for one day a month, I skip school. Such action would normally be considered a petty teenage rebellion. However, with the threat of climate catastrophe hurtling towards us, we are not living in normal times. There is nothing radical about my desire for a livable future.