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 […]
Climate Change Reserve (CCR) Budget
On Thursday, Feb 12, the evening before the debate in Council, Cllr Mike Spadafora submitted item 9.7 to the General Issues Committee (Budget) scheduled for the following day. This motion called for the Climate Change Reserve (CCR) budget for Hamilton to be deferred to 2027. The CCR was established in 2018 in order to fund […]
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 It touched on multiple areas that will inevitably be impacted, should Bill 5 not be repealed, including climate change, Indigenous self-governance, the housing crisis, labour and human rights, and the very essence of our democracy.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 […]
Excellent summing up of the climate crisis
From time to time, one comes across an article that, while not necessarily offering new information, sums up what we already know in a powerful and concise manner. In one such piece in The Guardian on December 20, The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear, former UK prime minister Jeremy Corbyn states […]
Earth Day Weekend
To mark Earth Day weekend, 22 April 2024, a number of supporters gathered outside the offices of MPPs Neil Lumsden and Donna Skelley. https://youtu.be/RVIVsySEM1c Check out our photo wall from the rally