95-Metre ‘Mega-Banner’ Urges #Carney to Pick a Path, Choose Renewables and #ClimateAction

Ahead of next week’s Speech from the Throne, four national climate groups mounted a 95-metre fabric installation in Ottawa’s Major’s Hill Park on Wednesday, urging Prime Minister #MarkCarney to “pick a path” between new oil and gas #pipelines and climate action.

On the same day, Faith and Climate Action held a “pray-in” at #RoyalBank of #Canada headquarters in Toronto, protesting bank financing for new #fossilfuel infrastructure like the proposed #PrinceRupert Gas Transmission #PRGT project in #BritishColumbia which is expected to receive #BCgovernment approval within days.

The “mega-banner” in #Ottawa “took over 20 hours to construct, dozens of volunteers, sheer grit, and caffeine-fuelled delusion,” wrote Emily Lowan, fossil fuel supply campaigns lead at Climate Action Network-Canada (CAN-Rac), in an email to supporters. “It may even break records as the largest banner in Canadian #climate movement history!”

https://www.theenergymix.com/95-metre-mega-banner-urges-carney-to-pick-a-path-choose-renewables-and-climate-action

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #EndFossilFuels #StopEcocide #environmental #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #BanCorporateLobbyists #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #neoliberals #BoycottBill5

#RBC client accusing #bank of #racism after #police called to investigate transaction

An #Ottawa woman plans to file a #HumanRights complaint against the #RoyalBank of #Canada after a routine trip to her branch to pick-up her credit card resulted in what she calls a dehumanizing and racist experience to prove her identity to police.

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/rbc-client-accusing-bank-of-racism-after-police-called-to-investigate-transaction-1.6577256

A #report from a #coalition of #environmental groups shows that #RoyalBank of #Canada was the biggest #FossilFuel #financier in the world last year after providing over US$42 billion in funding.
The annual #BankingOnClimateChaos report shows the bank's #funding between 2016 & 2021 put it as the fifth-largest #FossilFuelFunder but 2022 was the first year it provided the most money.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/rbc-biggest-fossil-fuel-funder-globally-in-2022-at-us-42b-report-1.6353605

#Bank4ABetterFuture #BoycottRBC #ShutdownRBC #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #EcocideFunder

A shortage of Canadian #farm #operators is looming, report says
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/a-shortage-of-canadian-farm-operators-is-looming-report-says-1.6348911
"A new report says more than 40 per cent of farm operators will #retire over the next decade, leaving #Canada with a shortage.

The report from #RoyalBank of Canada, Boston Consulting Group Centre for Canada's Future and Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph says the country will be short 24,000 general farm, nursery and greenhouse operators."