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Welcome to the WE-CAN Climate News Roundup
Your Primary Source for CLIMATE NEWS
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Top Story
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📌 Help Us Break Through the Climate Silence – Week of Action
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From Seniors for Climate: This week, together we’re going to break through the climate silence and spark the conversations we need to open up the space for urgent political action. There’s a chilling climate silence on what’s truly needed to meet the urgency of this moment. Seniors for Climate is organizing a Canada-wide Week of Action from June 1-7, with community events designed to break through the climate silence. And that’s where you come in. Find an event near you here.
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Join the Movement. Fuel the Change. The climate crisis won’t wait — and neither can we. At the West Coast Climate Action Network, we connect with and support nearly 300 climate organizations across BC. Together, we amplify impact, share resources, and drive urgent change.
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But we can’t do it without you!
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By becoming a monthly donor, you provide steady and reliable support that sustains the climate movement throughout the year. Your contributions fund vital coordination, advocacy, events, and tools — empowering people and organizations across BC to fight for a livable future. Monthly giving also makes it easier for you to stay connected to the cause, while helping us plan and grow with confidence
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Whether it’s $5 or $50 a month, your donation directly strengthens climate action in BC — and every dollar adds up.
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Be the spark. Join our growing community of monthly donors today.
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Thank you for standing with us in this decisive decade.
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Action Now!
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📌 Protect the Southern Resident Orcas - Urgent
From Georgia Strait Alliance: We are sounding the alarm on Canada’s proposal to fast-track major projects that could dictate the future of the Southern Resident orcas. After June 7, the fate of the Salish Sea will be decided, so the urgency of the situation cannot be overstated. We have sent 950 letters to the government, and counting. Will you help keep the momentum going? Act now here.
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📌 The June 2026 BC Budget Consultation – by 2pm June 19
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From WE-CAN: The NDP Budget Committee is accepting written submissions for its 2027 Budget. What should we be asking for? You can make up to three recommendations, with an explanation for each. You can participate by using the submission form HERE. We have set up a google doc to share ideas and proposals. Click here.
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📌 Stop War Profiteering: Tax Excess Profits (Please act)
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From Stand.earth: Oil and gas companies are making skyrocketing profits — set to rake in an extra $60 billion within a year. The federal government has the power to step in. Instead of letting corporations profit off global instability while people struggle to pay bills, it should impose a 75% windfall profits tax on Big Oil’s profits. That simple solution could raise up to $46 billion — money that could lower bills, fund public transit, build affordable green housing, and speed up the transition to renewable energy. Add your voice! Act here
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📌 Flood the Consultation: Don’t Fast-Track Destruction
From 350.org: The Government of Canada is proposing major legislative changes that would make it easier for mega-corporations to profit while our communities and the planet suffer the consequences. We’ve sent thousands of emails and made hundreds of phone calls to MPs. Now, let’s flood the public consultation process with messages opposing this dangerous proposal. Use our email template to send critical feedback to Prime Minister Carney and officials before the consultation closes on June 7. Tell them not to fast-track destruction. Take action now! Do it here
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📌 Tell Federal Leaders: Build Safe, Healthy, and Affordable Homes (Please write)
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From Stand.earth: Next week, Elbows Up For Climate — a coalition of nearly 300 mayors and councillors across Canada — is meeting with one goal: to elevate climate on the national agenda while making our communities safer and more affordable. A major part of the meeting? Discussing how to make our homes across Canada more sustainable and affordable. Right now, buildings are one of the top polluters in Canada — but as the federal government begins to look towards building new homes, we have a big opportunity to change that. That’s why we are flooding the federal key decision makers with demands for housing that lasts. Let's build climate-safe homes made for 2050, not 1950. Send your letter here
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WE-CAN Friends and Allies
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Might YOU be a Potential Plaintiff for a Precedent-Setting Legal Climate Action?
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Last year, My Sea to Sky retained legal counsel to draft an opinion on challenging oil and gas subsidies, on the basis that they violate the Charter right to life, liberty, and security of the person. They think a challenge has potential merit. Might YOU be a potential plaintiff? Have you suffered, or are at risk of suffering, physical or mental injury attributable to climate change, whether directly (e.g. heat stroke, health issues from wildfire smoke) or indirectly (e.g. forced relocation or forced to stay indoors due to wildfire)? This could also apply to someone under your care, like a child. Are you a BC resident and comfortable being in the public eye to share your story? For more details, please email tracey@myseatosky.org
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Climate Solutions
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A World Without Fossil Fuels Advertising
All around the world, organizations are targeting fossil advertising. Like our video here! National parliaments, cities, newspapers, ad agencies, museums. They all want to break with fossil ads. On our website we feature the successes and ongoing initiatives that are known to us. Read more
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The Household Battery Revolution that Could Change Energy Bills … and the World
From The Guardian: Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policies. “It is a profound change in how you run an energy market. The message is that if you can make rooftop solar happen, you can make a number of other changes really easily. And storing energy just opens up so much more flexibility in the system,” she says. “We’ve just found a new way to do it.” Read more
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China Sold More Plugin Vehicles in 2025 than the USA Bought Vehicles of All Types
From Clean Technica: China sold 16.49 million plugin vehicles in 2025 domestically and abroad. (12.8 million domestically.) In the US, people bought 16.38 million vehicles overall, and produced 10.2 million. Read more
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What Climate Messaging Works – and What Doesn’t
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From Angus Hervey: In 2024, behavioural scientists published findings from one of the largest ever experiments on climate messaging. Tested across 59,440 people in 63 countries, they found that doom and gloom was the single most effective strategy for driving social media shares. It was also the worst for motivating real-world action. What the study found actually worked was moral framing and scientific consensus. Messages that leave people feeling like they’re part of something bigger, and capable rather than overwhelmed. But that stuff doesn’t travel well online, which is probably why it hasn’t been widely adopted. It’s time for a change. Read more
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Climate Image of the Week
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Climate Politics and Action
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David Suzuki’s Call to Action at 90
From The Tyee: Let love motivate our fight to survive, the iconic Earth defender urged more than 2,000 guests on Friday. “We are at a remarkable tipping point in the history of life on Earth. We must return to an ancient relationship with Earth. Laws, the economy, politics are all human constructs and can be changed. They were designed to shape, guide and constrain our behaviour and actions, but ignore the reality that our very existence and well-being rest on Nature.” Read more
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The Inconvenient Clarity of Steven Guilbeault
From National Observer: A few tumultuous years ago, kvetching about Canadian climate policies over dinner, I got myself on the receiving end of one of those clarifying questions that really stick with you. “Would any of us, if we got elected to politics, do any better?” asked a friend, who now runs one of the bigger climate outfits in the country. Read more
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Guilbeault Quits as Carney Turns his Back on Climate
From National Observer: Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault was, for a time, the right man for the moment. That moment was 2019 and climate change still rated as a top political concern for Canadians. Guilbeault, a former Greenpeace activist turned Liberal politician, based much of his campaign on climate change and won a seat in his first ever bid for federal office. It was a tough political environment. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “sunny days” were already waning; the Liberals won, but only by a hair, and were forced to govern with a minority government. Read more
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Quebec and B.C. Voters in Key Swing Ridings Strongly Oppose Federal Funding for a Pipeline
From CANRaC: New polling shows that seven in ten voters (68%) in key ridings for the Liberal Party in Quebec and British Columbia oppose any federal funding for an oil pipeline to the West Coast, or any other fossil fuel expansion projects. The pipeline currently has no private-sector proponent, and no real business case, as oil demand destruction accelerates in Asian markets. The project risks requiring large public subsidies to go ahead. Read more
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Canadians, Including Albertans, Wanted a Stronger, Faster Industrial Carbon Pricing System
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From Sierra Club: New polling shows Canadians are more than twice as likely to support increasing Alberta’s industrial carbon price to $130 per tonne by 2030 (47%) than delaying until 2040 (22%). In Alberta, more people (43%) supported the 2030 target than delaying to 2040 (33%). Read more
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Climate Science and Impacts
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The Energy and Environmental Impact of AI and How it Undermines Democracy
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From Greenpeace: The environmental impact of AI is becoming harder to ignore. A different future is possible. Technology for the common good would mean a society where digital tools are built first to meet real social and ecological needs, and where AI is used only when it is appropriate, justified and not more resource-intensive than simpler alternatives. It would run on 100% additional renewable energy, disclose its full energy, water and supply-chain footprint, and be designed so communities are not left paying the price through higher bills, water stress or pollution. Read more
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Forestry and Nature
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One of the Strongest Marine Protected Areas in the World
From The Tyee: Six First Nations, BC and Canada will preserve and steward a large chunk of the Central Coast. That means no pipelines. The area will be protected under Indigenous law, and known as Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon, pronounced “Me-ah-yall-twa Ha-lee-joh-gom hOH-own,” meaning “Realm of the Salmon, Home of the Salmon.” It will cover 6,700 square kilometres of B.C.’s Central Coast. “This is the first time, at least in the last 150 years, where our people have a formal say in marine management,” Doug Neasloss, stewardship director and elected council member of the Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation, told The Tyee. Read more
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'Egregious': Feds Race to Destroy Key Organic Agriculture Research Fields
From National Observer: Field crews at the federal agricultural research station in Swift Current, Sask., have destroyed Canada's only public organic research plots and are planning to plant the fields with non-organic wheat seed. The move risks the land's organic certification, which takes years to obtain and can be eliminated if synthetic pesticides or fertilizers are used on the land. "It's 20 years of research potentially being destroyed.” Read more
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State of Finance for Nature 2026
From UNEP: For every dollar invested in protecting nature, $30 are spent destroying it. In 2023, $7.3 trillion flowed into nature-negative activities, from fossil fuel subsidies to investments in high-impact sectors like utilities and energy. Meanwhile, only $220 billion supported Nature Based Solutions, with private finance contributing just $23 billion. To meet global biodiversity, climate and land restoration targets, investment must increase 2.5 times to $571 billion annually by 2030—equivalent to 0.5% of global GDP. Read more
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Reducing Wildfire Risk on Your Property
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From the Climate Adaptation Research Lab: We have just published Reducing Wildfire Risk on Your Property: Practical Forest Stewardship for Landowners. It provides residents of the Gulf Islands (and across BC!) with information on how you can reduce the wildfire risk on forested properties. Check it out here
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Climate Videos, Books, Podcasts, Courses, Art
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As New Ecological Realities Reshape the Planet, What Role Does Art Play?
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From National Observer: Artists invite us to think differently and imagine new futures. This exhibition offers no singular answer, but rather a plurality of responses, from poetic to urgent. Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change is the first major exhibition in Canada to examine the intersection of the climate crisis and contemporary art on a global scale. Featuring works from the past 25 years, it underscores the urgency and relevance of sustainability and the environment as defining issues of our time. Vancouver Art Gallery. Read more
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You Can Take Action! Events, Protests and Rallies
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*PLEASE NOTE* If your climate organization is a WE-CAN member, click “Post your Event” under ‘Calendar’, and it will be added following approval.
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The calendar is a great networking tool, helping you connect and share events with the broader climate movement. Check it out and start posting your events today!
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Tuesday June 2, 1 pm Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All
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From Jeremy Lent: It has often been said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism—and yet that is what the historical moment urgently calls for. Humanity faces an imminent choice: continue with a system built on extraction and endless growth, or reimagine civilization itself. In his new book Ecocivilization, Jeremy Lent offers that reimagination, grounded in proven design principles of ecosystems and humankind's inclination toward justice, mutuality, and dignity. To join the meeting at 1pm, click here
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Wednesday, June 3, 12 pm Suzuki Sessions: Community Resilience to Escalating Climate Threats
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From David Suzuki Foundation: In this exciting series of online gatherings, David Suzuki and honoured guests discuss the most important opportunities for action on climate and environmental justice. Today we feature inspiring leaders who are helping communities develop resilience. David Suzuki and Tara Cullis will share learnings from their recent Stronger Together Tour, which took them through southern Ontario to meet with grassroots groups and local leaders working on community resilience and emergency preparedness. Register here
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Thursday, June 4, 12-1:30 pm Organizing Climate Futures - Campaigns!
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From Indigenous Climate Action, Research for the Frontlines, and UVic’s Transformative Climate Action: The first session in our series will focus on Campaigns, bringing together three powerful speakers: Sleydo' Molly Wickham, Jesse Stoeppler, and Tia Kennedy. We will explore what land defense campaigns teach us about building just and livable climate futures, and what we’ve learned through movement organizing. Register here
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Monday June 8, 6 pm When the Forest Breathes: A Conversation with Suzanne Simard
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From Sierra Club of BC: With her book Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest. Now, with her new book When the Forest Breathes, she uncovers the ways that nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal can ensure the longevity of threatened ecosystems. Register here
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Saturday, June 13, 10 am Save the Rail Trail – Okanagan Transit Alliance
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From Okanagan Transit Alliance: Meet on the pedestrian bridge over Highway 97 by the landmark building to educate the community about the expense and harm the Clement Extension will cause to our community. This is a family-friendly event planned to coincide with the farmer's market. Come to our Work Party on May 23rd at 7 pm to make print materials and meet us in person. Email okanagantransitalliance@gmail.com for the location.
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Grants, Job Vacancies and More!
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Job Vacancy: Community Climate Action Mobilizer (In Victoria, By June 7)
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From Youth Climate Corps: This summer, YCCBC is coming to Victoria! We’re excited to be joining the community, and we want you on our team. Apply to become a Community Climate Action Mobilizer and spend your summer building leadership skills, taking meaningful climate action, and making connections in your community. Read more
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Are You Hosting a Climate Event Through a PICS-Network University? We Can Provide Support.
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From PICS: Our University Climate Knowledge Mobilization Events program supports climate change-related research dissemination, knowledge mobilization, and events hosted by PICS university (UBC, SFU, UNBC, UVic) groups, organizations, departments, or institutes. The program offers up to $2,500 for eligible events. We aim to support up to 35 events a year and will close when funding is fully subscribed. Read more
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Environment Funders
Their list of members is here - a useful source of thinking when it comes to fundraising
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WE-CAN’s Fundraising Toolkit for Climate Action Groups is here
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From all of us in the West Coast Climate Action Network
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We honour the title and rights of the Indigenous peoples on whose ancestral lands we live and work.
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