My Weekend Canvassing for Bernie

“It was our ‘Bernie Journey,’ the official campaign name for out-of-staters travelling to the early primaries and caucuses that would set the tone of the leadership race. For a few long days in mid-February, we would slog through slush and slide over ice in the foggy eastern state, knocking on doors as part of a massive grassroots operation.”

 

Martin Lukacs – The Walrus – March 2020

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Before Trudeau, Gerald Butts Abandoned Tar Sands Action As Head Of WWF

“When veteran climate analyst Keith Stewart arrived at his office at the Toronto headquarters of the World Wildlife Fund Canada in the spring of 2010, he was in for a shock. Turning on his computer, he realized that the campaign he had been directing and working on for years — raising the alarm about the unsustainable exploitation of Alberta’s tar sands — had disappeared from the organization’s website.”

Martin Lukacs – Canadaland – September 2019