Bridging Generations: Climate Stories, Wisdom, and Action in Hamilton
Elders 4 Climate Sanity (E4CS) has sent the following letter to Employment and Social Development Canada in support of funding the project Bridging Generations: Climate Stories, Wisdom, and Action in Hamilton by the New Horizons for Seniors Program. The funding decision will be made in January 2027. New Horizons for Seniors ProgramEmployment and Social Development Canada […]
Ontario’s Disappearing Farmland
Mike Schreiner, leader of the Ontario Greens, was interviewed recently by Doreen Nicoll on her Substack feed, Small Change. Listen to it here. The topic was the Ford government’s threat to Ontario’s farmland. Schreiner painted a stark and powerful picture of the damage being done by the Ford administration to our food security. We thought […]
Don Brown Recognized in the House of Commons
On January 29, MP Aslam Rana made the following statement in the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. “Mr. Speaker, on December 19, we had the great joy of celebrating one of my constituents, Mr. Donald Brown, as he turned 100 years young. “Mr. Brown is a treasure and inspiring member of our community. It was a […]
H350 Focus Group
On Wednesday, August 6th, we held a meeting at the Norman Pinky Lewis Recreation Centre, along with representatives from partner organizations Environment Hamilton, Stop Sprawl, the Wilderness Committee and the Council of Canadians. The objective was to build on the momentum generated by the Kill Bill 5 rally at Hamilton City Hall and to brainstorm how to raise […]
Should city buses be free during heat waves?
Our objective of having the HSR provide free transit during heatwaves is gathering momentum. Check out these recent stories in: The Hamilton Spectator, 30 July 2025 CHCH News, 28 July 2025
Imagine…
It’s not just the provincial government that’s the problem. Under the Trump-imposed NATO defence spending target, Mark Carney has suggested that it would require an additional $45 to $50 billion a year to comply. Even at the lower figure, that’s $1121 for every person in Canada. Pro-rating that to Hamilton’s current population would result in a […]
The Kill Bill 5 rally at City Hall
The Kill Bill 5 rally at Hamilton City Hall was a great success! It touched on multiple areas that will inevitably be impacted, should Bill 5 not be repealed, including climate change, Indigenous self-governance, the housing crisis, labour and human rights, and the very essence of our democracy. Courtney Skye: Protect the Tract Sandy Shaw & […]
The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism
Shortly after our recent Action Update on the effects of the climate crisis on the costs of insurance, this article appeared in The Guardian. In it, Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies, said that “without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other […]
Lessons from the California Wildfires
The catastrophic fires in Los Angeles are a stark warning to Hamiltonians that climate change is real and getting rapidly worse. Climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time last year, supercharging extreme weather and causing “misery to millions of people”. It can devastate even wealthy […]
Protests work!
In it’s article “Here are some fantastically uplifting stories from 2024“, The Hamilton Spectator highlighted the activities of “the Dundas Four”, Hamilton 350’s elders who were arrested at the RBC branch in Dundas in March this year. Here’s an extract from the article: Aged agitators take on banks and big oil A group of seniors, […]