Sofia Vedechkina Communications Manager The Climate Reality Project Canada svedechkina@climatereality.ca (514) 293-1285 MONTREAL, March 17, 2022 – For the fourth year in a row, The Climate Reality Project Canada (CRPC) is releasing its National Climate League (NCL) Standings. One of the 2022 Clean50 Top Projects honourees, the NCL is a yearly project developed by the organization that was first launched in 2018. An exercise in participative democracy, its purpose is to en

by Robert Miller As the heat bubble scorched British Columbia this summer, the record setting temperatures extended far south into the United States where the Hoover Dam reservoir hit its lowest recorded depth since construction was completed in 1936. As the Hoover Dam forewarned, it would not take long for the heat problem to become a water problem. By August, Alberta and Saskatchewan were experiencing severe to extreme drought conditions and ranchers were selling their live

by Steve Bentley The whole world shifted for Alberta in 2014 and it never stopped shifting. The oil and gas rollercoaster economy that was all we’d ever known kept taking unprecedented hits from a dizzying array of sources, all of them global in scope and that would ultimately prove insurmountable for business as usual. Heading into 2022, Covid had forced the world to stop and consider just what it was we’d all been doing and reconsider what’s really important. At the same ti

By Maheep Sandhu, Community Climate Hubs Manager at the Climate Reality Project Canada In November 2021, I had the privilege to attend the global climate negotiations occurring in Glasgow, Scotland on behalf of the Climate Reality Project Canada. While at COP26, I did live correspondence for community-based partners like the Calgary Climate Hub and The Climate Dialogues, interviewed young people from Kahnawá:ke, observed negotiations for the Climate Action Network-Canada, and

By Jennifer Houghtaling Houghtaling is a municipal councilor for Cumberland County in Nova Scotia. She is also an artist and potter who tends to express her beliefs through her art. This piece called “We are the Bear” was created after reading a book* about the melting ice in the north that causes the polar bears to become stranded out on the ice surrounded by ocean. Planting trees was literally a ground breaking moment in my life and likely most tree planters who could actua