Welcome to Sierra Club Prairie
From the plains to the mountains, our mission is to develop a diverse, well trained grassroots network working to protect the integrity of our local and global ecosystems.
9 May, 2012
OTTAWA - The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development provides further evidence the federal government is failing to protect the environment, ^NOT meeting...
6 May, 2012
#BlackOutSpeakOut
OTTAWA – According to a national campaign being launched Monday, May 7th by the country’s leading environmental organizations, the federal...
20 April, 2012
OTTAWA - Sierra Club Canada Foundation is working with several manufacturers of non-toxic, natural cosmetics to encourage young women to live a healthier lifestyle by using...
13 April, 2012
Sierra Club Canada welcomes long-overdue regulation of heavy trucks but another piecemeal move does not make up for the lack of a national climate plan to reduce greenhouse...
29 March, 2012
OTTAWA- Canadians are less able to protect our water, air and land because of changes to environmental law outlined in today’s federal budget.
The key change,...
5 May, 2012
MONTREAL - Environmental groups in Quebec and across Canada are accusing the federal government of engaging in a kind of McCarthyism, painting environmentalists as...
5 May, 2012
Sierra Club Canada Executive Director John Bennett pushes back on Environment Minister Peter Kent's 'money laundering' accusation against environmental...
5 May, 2012
Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors Saturday, waving banners shaped as giant fish that...
19 April, 2012
The National Energy Board (NEB) will have to submit all future decisions on major pipeline projects to the federal cabinet for approval, according to a little-noticed...
19 April, 2012
To hear Conservative Senator Nicole Eaton and others tell it, Canada has been invaded by foreign radicals who “are operating under the guise of charitable...
Sheila Muxlow
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2011-06-04 10:41
Sierra Club Prairie asserts our support for the Dene Suline in protecting their traditional territory from destruction for an RV park. The...
Sheila Muxlow
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2011-05-13 14:01
CONTACT the ALBERTA GOVERNMENT!
Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation
Cindy Ady...
Sheila Muxlow
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2011-05-05 09:29
WE NEED YOUR VOICES TO LET THE GOVERNMENT KNOW THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
**Please take a...
Bryn MacDonald
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2011-04-28 09:17
How TransCanada Pipelines bullies farmers, manipulates oil markets, threatens fresh water and skimps on safety in the United States.
A new...
Sheila Muxlow
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2011-04-26 09:04
Sierra Club of Canada - Prairie Chapter is an environmental nonprofit organization with a mission to create a diverse, well trained grassroots network to...
John Bennett
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1 week 3 days ago
The federal government’s war on nature and democracy means “Silence is no longer an option” for Canadians. So I’m urging you to join with Sierra Club Canada and...
John Bennett
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1 week 3 days ago
This week Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent has made repeated allegations that environmental groups are “laundering money”. This is a serious charge because according...
John Bennett
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4 weeks 5 days ago
This blog was going to be about “bike rage”. I witnessed an incident yesterday walking to work. I heard an angry yell and an expletive from a woman on bike enraged...
John Bennett
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6 weeks 1 hour ago
Sometimes you just don’t want to be right.
In the Sierra Club Canada national office we are busy preparing our 2011 annual report. As I go through my files from last year (wow...
John Bennett
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7 weeks 6 days ago
Dear Friends,
Below find a letter that I sent yesterday to Patricia Best of Natural Resources Canada.
It pertains to remarks she made to Canadian Press about Sierra Club Canada,...
What is "Grassroots"?
A grassroots movement is one driven by the values, needs and vision of everyday people in a local community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous and grounded in advocating for a better future for their community, not just individuals. This highlights the differences between a grassroots movement and a movement that is orchestrated by top down power structures. Members of grassroots movements are everyday people ranging from lawyers and doctors to construction workers and musicians. When everyday people come together in a grassroots movement, they can have an affect both locally and globally to create a safer, healthier and more just future.
