Parliament is back in session – and so is Off the Hill. This month, we returned to our monthly live panel series with “Off the Hill: Summer of fire – what’s Ottawa got to do with it?”
In the panel, we discussed the social and environmental impact the wildfires had on Canada this summer, how Canadians can get involved in climate justice and how we can hold the federal government accountable for climate solutions.
Guests this month included MP Leah Gazan, Clayton Thomas-Müller, Chuka Ejeckam, Diana Yoon and Karl Nerenberg. Co-hosted by Robin Browne and Nick Seebruch. The webinar took place Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET.
Don’t forget! Off the Hill now has a regular date! Join us every third Wednesday of the month, every month, at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET.
Meet our Off the Hill panel
Leah Gazan is Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre. She is currently the NDP critic for Children, Families, and Social Development, as well as the deputy critic for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship. Gazan is a member of Wood Mountain Lakota Nation, located in Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 territory.
Clayton Thomas-Müller is a member of the Treaty #6 based Mathias Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan located in Northern Manitoba, Canada. He is featured as one of ten international human rights defenders in the National Canadian Museum for Human Rights and has campaigned in and out of Canada, to support Indigenous Peoples to defend their territories against the encroachment of the fossil fuel industry. He is an award winning film director, media producer, organizer, facilitator, public speaker and bestselling author. His book, Life in the City of Dirty Water, was a national bestseller and a CBC Canada Reads finalist.
Diana Yoon is a climate and housing justice activist based in Toronto. Her work is on the intersection of climate mitigation and affordable housing. Formerly, she was the Geography grad student department steward for CUPE3903.
Chuka Ejeckam is a writer and policy researcher. His work focuses on inequity and inequality, drug policy, structural racism, and labour. He is also a columnist for rabble.ca.
Karl Nerenberg is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker, working in both English and French languages. He is rabble’s senior parliamentary reporter.
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