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• Who Will Be The Next Manitoba Youth Climate Changemaker?

  Oct. 4, 2024 – Climate Change Connection – Climate Change Connection Youth Influencer Challenge Calls for Youth to Speak Up! From what to eat, what to drive, young people can have a big influence on what their parents, families and friends do; how they live; and what they buy; and they can be a driving source of positive change, especially when it comes to climate change.

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• Community garden in Poplar River First Nation sows seeds for more sustainable future

  Oct. 4, 2024 – CBC – A community garden program in a remote First Nation in eastern Manitoba, run by a father and son, is growing in more ways than one. It’s helping sow the seeds of sustainability amid concerns about climate change and high food prices.

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• Global Warming of 1.6C Now Best Case Scenario, New Research Shows

  Aug. 19, 2024 – New Scientist  -Humanity’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, which has been totemic in climate policy for the past decade, is now almost certainly out of reach.

• Fossil fuel subsidies cost Canadians a lot more money than the carbon tax

  Apr. 1, 2024 – The Conversation Canada – The federal carbon tax increase is now in effect, and will raise gas prices by three cents per litre in most Canadian provinces. The hike prompted complaints from seven premiers and a recent parliamentary showdown, culminating in a failed vote of non-confidence in the Liberal government. Yet this ongoing debate overlooks a far costlier carbon tax: fossil fuel subsidies.