Author: Matthew Lie - Paehlke

We're fucking pissed. It's hot. There's smoke in our eyes. And people are STILL going about their lives like everything is fine. Yes, we know that many people feel the emergency just like we do - but collectively, we're sleepwalking off a cliff and it's terrifying. If you're as pissed as we are you might … Continue reading The Great Summer Postering Contest of 2023

In May, we participated in the UTS Service Saturday volunteer event and spent the day working with a group of about 20 grade 8 student volunteers. What an experience! Rather than asking students to stuff envelopes or some other mundane volunteering task, we decided to let them speak for themselves. After all, they're the ones … Continue reading Did you see our postcard?

Power of Your Dollar – Katrina Canedo We started our BankSwitch campaign in 2020, looking at data from the 2019 Banking on Climate Chaos Report. We totalled up the big 5's fossil fuel funding since 2016 -- the date of the Paris Accord -- and they all looked pretty bad. RBC was in the lead, but … Continue reading In 2023, BankSwitch is starting to look interesting…

OUR PLAN IN TEN SECONDS: Get materials on key issues from trusted non-profitsFind coordinators in target ridingsProvide online training for coordinators and volunteersKnock all the doors and tell people where all the parties stand on key issues Why will this work? Because -- under Doug Ford -- the Conservative party is bad on almost every … Continue reading Our Plan to Beat Doug Ford

On October 29th, people rose up from coast to coast to call out RBC for funding so many fossil fuel projects, including projects like Coastal Gaslink and Line 3 which are being rammed through Indigenous territory without the consent of traditional governments. Although RBC hasn't changed its ways and Coastal Gaslink is still being built, … Continue reading The Art and Music of RBCisKillingMe