
David Gray-Donald is a settler media worker in tkaronto (Toronto). He was the publisher of Briarpatch from 2017-2019, is the current publisher of The Grind magazine in Toronto, and is a co-author of the new book The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-called Canada. He worked as a climate campaigner at Environmental Defence from 2022 to March 2023.
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The Oil Industry’s PR Offensive
A climate justice journalist heads to the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary to see how the industry is pushing its messages, and who is doing doing the heavy lifting.
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Checking in with the oil crowd
The conference guidebook for the 50th annual Global Petroleum Show tells me we’re here “CELEBRATING THE FUTURE OF ENERGY.” Excuse my skepticism.
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Dear Erin Weir, what are you doing?
Doubling down in the face of harassment allegations isn’t helping anyone.
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Socializing and decolonizing Saskatchewan’s oil
Could a new crown corporation – SaskOil – allow us to wind down the industry, get off oil, keep people employed, and repatriate land, resources, and decision-making to Indigenous peoples?
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Canada’s right-wing rage machine vs. Nora Loreto
Tracking the work of a loosely coordinated right-wing network that spurred on an enormous public reaction
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Camped out for Justice
Colten Boushie. Tina Fontaine. Countless others. “Something’s gotta change. Something more than fake promises and words.”
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Troubling portrait of an oil province
Review of new film Crude Power: Oil, Money & Influence in Saskatchewan
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Chasing the National Energy Board out of Montreal
An interview with activist Alyssa Symons-Belanger after her release from arrest.
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Against the Pipeline Prerogative
The National Energy Board is the regulatory body that determines whether (and which) pipelines will pump bitumen across Canada. As an extension of a colonial project that violates Indigenous land and consent, the NEB is up against Indigenous women and their allies leading the fight against pipelines.
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Debriefing Black Lives Matter Toronto’s 15-day occupation (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2 of an interview with two Black Lives Matter Toronto organizers.
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Debriefing Black Lives Matter Toronto’s 15-day occupation of police headquarters (Part 1)
Part 1 of 2 of a Q&A with two members of the BLMTO Steering Committee.
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Line 9 and Line 7 Sabotage
For the fourth time in two months, protesters have disturbed major pipelines.
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Rejecting the Master’s Tools: An Interview with a Line 9 Activist
David Gray-Donald speaks to one of the activists who was involved in shutting down Line 9 at the Quebec–Ontario border on December 7, 2015.
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Quebec’s Movement for Economic and Environmental Justice
Quebec’s social movements are working to wed anti-austerity politics with climate justice.