social justice

The green industries program at Don Mills Collegiate Institute has grown steadily over the 20-plus years that teacher Dan Kunanec has put into the urban innovation project, which each year sends dozens of high school students on their way to environmentally sustainable careers.

The Edge, located inside the Youth For Christ centre in downtown Winnipeg, is the city’s only full-sized indoor skatepark.

For the past 13 years, this spoken word poet from Victoria, B.C., has mentored hundreds of high school students at the annual Victorious Voices spoken word festival.

Our personal choices will determine how fast we achieve net-zero emissions.

To pave the way for an equitable transition out of the climate crisis post-COVID, the real innovation required is to nurture and invest in inclusive, equitable and people-powered networks and movements to instigate social change. 

Meet Lisa Chen, who wanted to use her biology degree to fight climate change but had trouble finding a relevant job.

To be truly feminist, Canada must fully consult women — particularly land and water defenders — to lay the groundwork for community-driven and inclusive clean energy economies, writes Jane Thirikwa with KAIROS Canada.

Taxes — particularly those on carbon —are the most equitable way to raise money for climate initiatives that impact poorest people and countries the most, say tax-justice advocates at the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

Working from a Council of Canadians playbook, two teens from Cumberland, B.C., persuaded the village to adopt a climate and social justice plan.

The author and activist is set to help develop the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia — one of the first of its kind at a Canadian university.

Social justice class inspired Mireta Strandberg-Salmon's campaign to ban bottled water sales in school vending machines.

Serisha Iyar, 25, launched Leading in Colour in July 2019, an organization aimed at giving racialized youth a voice and, more importantly, the ability and tools needed to mobilize to create real change.

With opioid deaths surging, the province’s decision to shut down the McCullough Centre in Gunn is just the latest example of the governing United Conservative Party’s callous disregard for the lives of people coping with addiction in Alberta, writes Susan Slade, a vice-president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.

Hip-hop culture has much to add to the racial justice conversation taking place in the streets and on basketball courts across the United States and even in Canada, says the curator of a University of Toronto education series on the movement.

The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman's killer, but the school says doing so would go against its principles.