Brent Preston is an organic vegetable farmer near the village of Creemore, Ontario. He is the president of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, which is one of the member organizations of Farmers for Climate Solutions, a new Canada-wide coalition that is pushing for changes in policy that will make the country’s agricultural sector part of the solution …
A rare two-interview day today! This morning, I spoke with Brent from Farmers For Climate Solutions – Fermiers pour la transition climatique. We talked about Canadian farmers getting together to push governments to adopt pro-climate agricultural policies. Then this afternoon I talked to Gillian and Tony of BIPOC TV & Film about their education, networking, and advocacy work …
Sheena Wilson is a professor of media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Alberta. One of her many roles is leading an initiative called Just Powers, described on its website as “an interdisciplinary and community-engaged network of research projects focused on climate justice issues” and “on creating socially-just approaches to energy transition and …
Dave Bleakney is the second national vice-president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). In that role, he attended the COP 25 United Nations climate change conference in Madrid in December. Scott Neigh interviews him about how his union is responding to the climate crisis, and about what CUPW has previously described as the …
Rebecca Keetch has been an autoworker at the General Motors (GM) assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario since 2006. GM has said they will close the plant by the end of the year. Tiffany Balducci is the president of the Durham Region Labour Council. Both are involved in Green Jobs Oshawa, a joint labour-community campaign involving …
Marisa Vertrees is the organizing director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), a network of almost 900 Catholic religious orders, dioceses, universities, lay organizations, and other insitutions in more than 90 countries. Agnes Richard is the co-ordinator of the new chapter of the GCCM in Canada. The GCCM’s mission is to engage Catholics in …
Emma Lim is 18 years old and is a high school student in London, Ontario. Rebecca Hamilton is 17 years old and also a high school student, and she lives in Vancouver, BC. They are organizers with Climate Strike Canada at both the local and national levels. Scott Neigh interviews them about what they are …
Just finished an interview with Marisa of the Global Catholic Climate Movement and Agnes of the GCCM’s new Canadian chapter. We talked climate change, faith, and social change. Listen for it on Talking RadicalRadio later in the summer! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.