Cameron Fenton

I've started to have a repetitive nightmare.

The light in the hearing room is bright, hot and pointed right at me. The heat is suffocating, and I am visibly sweaty, the senator leans over, taps his microphone and begins to read questions from a typed sheet.

"Mr. Fenton, Have...

Note: This is a collective Earth Day 2012 statement from Climate Justice Montreal, Climate Justice Ottawa and the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition.

The creative, courageous and inspiring Quebec student movement has today weaved its way through Montreal's Earth Day rally, mixing red and green, merging its demands...

Stop reading, take a breath, and wait one minute.

Your government just gave over $2,600 to the fossil fuel industry.

Add up all these minutes and you get just under $1.4 billion each year that Canada is currently giving to some of the richest corporations on...

Until recently I knew next to nothing about Canada's Fisheries Act. I rather astutely assumed it had something to do with protecting fish, but that is where it ended.

Not long ago I learned about section 36-3 of the Act, which prevents the dumping of "deleterious substances"...

It makes sense that environmentalists are placing a lot of stock in the Rio +20 conference.

After all, the first Rio Earth Summit was groundbreaking; it was a coming out party for modern environmental consciousness, and laid down the foundations for cornerstones of global ecological protection like the United Nations...

You might be surprised to hear it, but when I heard Joe Oliver and Stephen Harper unleash their latest tirade against the growing resistance to unconventional fossil expansion in Canada -- now represented in the Northern Gateway fight -- I half agreed with them. While their Neo-McCarthyist green-baiting...

As the sun rose over Durban, youth from across Canada sat in the final plenary session of COP17 and watched through bleary, sleep deprived eyes as our futures were bargained away in the name of "good" diplomacy.

Despite the fact that COP17 is being touted as a success by...

The wealthiest, most polluting nations on the globe have hung a sign over Durban's International Convention Center.

It stares in the face of delegates from around the globe at every turn, promising the world untold devastation.

The sign reads "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here".

Here at...

We're one week into the United Nations climate talks in Durban and we're exhausted. Canada has had a rough week; our environment minister hinted at a formal withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol, rejected what he called "guilt payments" in international climate deals and Canada had probably earned enough...

Every late November there is a gathering. People who seldom see each other come together to bicker, argue and fein agreement. No, I am not talking about Thanksgiving, but rather the upcoming round of United Nations climate change talks in Durban, South Africa. But like Thanksgiving dinner, there is always...

The Alberta tar sands are not called a giga project for no reason.

Their reach extends far beyond a Florida-sized deposit in northern Alberta and inhabit a spider web-like network of expansion pipelines across Canada and the United states. Add this to a transcontinental supply chain for materials and...

My fondest memory of Jack Layton was back in December 2009. The Copenhagen climate talks were entering into their second week and a wave of sit-ins had been rolling through the offices of Members of Parliament across Canada.

Along with a five other youth, I had just been arrested...

There is a perfect storm brewing on the West Coast of Canada.

Not your conventional Vancouver weather system, this storm has been brewing since 1994 when corporations from across the country came together as the Gateway Council and, in my opinion, hatched a multi-stage proposal designed to...

Earlier this month, a series of ads were released by Alykhan Velshi as a part of Ezra Levant's "Ethical Oil" campaign which aims to defend the tar sands' image. They juxtaposed terrorism in the Middle East ("conflict" oil) with democratic Canada ("ethical" oil), Indigenous people killed in Sudan's oil...

In 1795, The Philadelphia Minerva published the lyrics to "Women's Rights", an ode to the suffrage movement sung to the tune of "God Save the King."

From plantations, to picket lines and prison cells music has long been the sonic manifestation of the soul, spirit and rage...

In 1792 a British surveyor and employee of the Hudson's Bay company named Peter Fidler reported finding coal in what is now Alberta. He recorded learning about something that he roughly translated from the local Cree and Blackfoot people as the "black rock that burns."

Over the next century...