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Thank You For a Great Year! And Onward Into 2019!
Melissa Munro — January 18, 2019Your Gift Can Help Save Baby Blues - And We're Going Back To Court To Do It!
Melissa Munro — December 27, 2018And we're going back to court to protect them!
In just a few weeks, I return to the courtroom with our legal team to fight a final phase of a court challenge to protect the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Our first appearance last December was to simply be given “standing”, (meaning a judge would first have to decide if we could even be heard in the larger, future battle to fight the re-issuance of an oil company’s licence that had expired.) And we won that one!
Celebrate Gretchen's Important Work With a Gift In Her Honour - December 2018
Melissa Munro — December 20, 2018Gretchen Fitzgerald, our senior staff director, is celebrating a birthday.
Beyond her responsibilities leading Sierra Club – from media interviews at all hours, to racing to coalition meetings, to being our well-informed voice to the public – Gretchen is quietly out there on Facebook trying to raise funds for Sierra Club Canada Foundation on the occasion of her birthday this month.
But we want to surprise her with something special.
Giving Tuesday Dizolve Laundry Eco-strips and Sierra Quarter-Zip Top November 27 2018
Melissa Munro — November 27, 2018You get us to the highest courts so we can fight to protect the world's most endangered whales.
You demand protections for our irreplaceable Great Lakes.
You fiercely call for a ban of pesticides that are killing bees and other pollinators so critical to the functioning of our ecosystems.
Here We Stand...And It's Great News!
Gretchen Fitzgerald — August 10, 2018It’s always nice to come back from a lovely vacation to good news – especially in a summer in which we are all sweating in the heat of impending climate chaos. And I’m happy to have some very good news to share with you.
The National Hike for the Environment 2018 - NOW UNTIL NOV. 4TH!
Melissa Munro — August 7, 2018Clock is Ticking: A Mid-Term Report Card on the Federal Government and its Work on the Environment
Melissa Munro — May 10, 2018A report released May 9th, 2018 by the leaders of Canada’s top environmental organizations reviews the progress of the federal government in meeting its platform and mandate commitments on environmental issues across the country.
You need to read this piece by Joel Ballard from The National Observer
Melissa Munro — May 9, 2018I highly recommend you take a few minutes to read this piece by Joel Ballard from The National Observer. It is an impressive piece of journalism.
Environmental Assessment being debated right now! Here is Nathan's story.
Melissa Munro — April 26, 2018When the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig sank in 2010, it spewed raw oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months, wreaking untold damage on marine life. The spill was the largest ever in U.S. waters, and the full effects are still unknown.
Plastics: Shallow Politics. Deep Concerns.
Becky Bassick — March 22, 2018by Becky Bassick & Lino Grima
Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Ontario Chapter
Ontario's 42nd general election is scheduled for June of this year. Sierra Club Ontario (SCO) is working hard with a coalition of other environmental nonprofits to ensure that water is part of the political conversation. In addition, SCO is taking this opportunity to discuss fundamental questions regarding our election process.
Shallow Politics. Deep Concerns.
Becky Bassick — March 21, 2018by Becky Bassick & Lino Grima
Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Ontario Chapter
Ontario's 42nd general election is scheduled for June of this year. Sierra Club Ontario (SCO) is working hard with a coalition of other environmental nonprofits to ensure that water is part of the political conversation. In addition, SCO is taking this opportunity to discuss fundamental questions regarding our election process.
Liberals say #BetterRules. We say we need better than that.
Gretchen Fitzgerald — February 19, 2018It's been just over a week since Bill C-69, Canada's new impact assessment legislation was presented for first reading in the House of Commons.
Holding Steady for Justice for the Gulf
Gretchen Fitzgerald — December 15, 2017I wanted to give you an update on our critical legal battle and appearance in court this week to protect the Gulf of St. Lawrence and all of the beautiful creatures who live there.
The case involves one important argument: the issuance of the licence that the offshore board has granted to the oil company, Corridor Resources. First though, we had to defend our ability to be heard, as “our standing,” is being challenged by the offshore board (responsible for granting exploration licences to oil companies), and by the oil company itself.
Stand in solidarity with whales!
Melissa Munro — December 13, 2017Change your profile and cover images on your social media pages and show solidarity for whales!
We are in court this week defending whales and the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the harmful effects of oil and gas exploration. You can read why and how right here.
Is Lone Pine the Last Straw? #EndISDS in Trade Agreements
Bana Hamze — October 10, 2017
Last week, Lone Pine’s decade-long quest to carry out shale gas fracking along the St. Lawrence River culminated at a NAFTA Tribunal hearing in Toronto.
Let them hear you. Let's fix the National Energy Board.
Melissa Munro — September 29, 2017They need to hear from you!
A broken National Energy Board puts our democracy and our environment at risk, and the Trudeau government has pledged to fix it.
At no other time in history have we been presented with this rare opportunity to be the architects of one of the most important decision-making bodies in our country.
The Climate Reality Project Canada & Sierra Club Quebec equip citizens to accelerate climate action in Canadian cities
RuiLin Guo — September 12, 2017Couplet, 1991-2017
Melissa Munro — August 18, 2017It feels like a death in the family.
The New England Aquarium Right Whale Research Program has just released confirmation of the death of the 13th right whale.
Couplet, #2123, was found on Monday, east of Cape Cod.
Protecting whales and water on World Oceans Day and every day.
Melissa Munro — June 12, 2017Few things are as spectacular and awe-inducing as a breaching humpback whale.
The sheer enormity of their body, with such strength and grace – blasting out of the water, seeming to defy the laws of gravity even just for a moment – is enough to take your breath away. It’s acrobatics and ballet on the largest scale, with a splash down that is out of this world!
It’s what they do, and it is what they have done for millennia.