Let's talk about A GREEN NEW DEAL What is a Green New Deal? The Green New Deal is an ambitious plan for how we can eliminate poverty and create millions of jobs while tackling the biggest threat of our time: climate change. [...]
The Answer to Converging Crises is a Green New Deal
The Answer to Converging Crises is a Green New Deal by Avi Lewis If you’re feeling a mounting sense of apocalyptic unease as you wash your hands and sing “Happy Birthday” for the eighth time this morning, you are not alone. It is perfectly possible that before 2020 is half over, we will be [...]
Transit Survey: What We Found
In February 2020, we asked Leap supporters to share your dreams for how we can improve public transit -- and over 1000 of you responded, from nearly every province and territory. Here's what we heard. How do you use transit? We found that 25% of respondents take public transit to work, and of that [...]
Tour Highlights
A GREEN NEW DEAL FOR ALL In June 2019, The Leap traveled from Vancouver to Halifax, coast to coast, for 6 SOLD OUT STOPS of our Green New Deal for All Tour. Vancouver Livestream Watch a livestream of our sold-out Vancouver event, [...]
Green New Deal
Let's talk about A GREEN NEW DEAL What is a Green New Deal? The Green New Deal is an ambitious plan for how we can eliminate poverty and create millions of jobs while tackling the biggest threat of our time: climate change. [...]
Three takeaways from the new IPCC report
Three takeaways from the IPCC's new report The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is out, and it is a dramatic development [1]. The threat advisory from the world’s scientific climate community just went from orange to flashing red.But here’s the key takeaway: limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is still possible, and will [...]
The 5 Fattest Lies about the Trans Mountain Pipeline
The 5 Fattest Lies about the Trans Mountain Pipeline by Avi Lewis
Courage To Leap: How the Left Can Win
On February 15th, 2018, key organizers of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn’s insurgent campaigns delivered a message loud and clear to the NDP federal convention in Ottawa: radical politics are not a liability for the progressive left in Canada, but rather the path to power and victory. Courage to Leap, co-organized by The Leap and [...]