Carrie Saxifrage
About Carrie Saxifrage
Carrie Saxifrage has written for the Vancouver and National Observer since 2006. She is the author of The Big Swim: Coming Ashore in a World Adrift (2015), which Bill McKibben called “serious adventure on a serious planet.” Carrie also wrote Extract: The Pipeline Wars in 2012.
The climate labyrinth: Gisela Ruckert and Kamloops 350
Since the mid-naughts, Gisela Ruckert has led Kamlooops 350 in educating citizens about the need for climate action. Now that most Canadians agree, the issue is electoral reform.
Canadians are ready for carbon pricing, politicians not so much: experts
Politicians remember all too well the lambasting Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion took in 2008 when he proposed a carbon price. But evidence shows that times have changed, and so has Canada.
A taste of Burnaby Mountain: mud, climate change, and history in the making
Each day the protest Burnaby Mountain recreates itself. There are consistencies: deep mud, moments of confusion, courage, grace, tears in the eyes and a sense that history is being made.