ºClimate Day

In the Media

// October 16th, 2009 // Media

International Call to Action
CBC

Canadians join international day of action against climate change
Global TV

Media Advisory: Award-Winning Filmmaker, Rob Stewart (Sharkwater), to Emcee C …
Market Wire (press release) – ‎Oct 22, 2009‎
What: C-Day: Fill the Hill – The largest citizen mobilization movement on climate change in Canadian history, held in alliance with 350.org’s International …

Unprecedented number of Canadians to take part in world’s largest political …
Canada NewsWire (press release) – ‎Oct 22, 2009‎
“Canadian youth are embarrassed by our federal government’s do-nothing approach to climate change,” said Gracen Johnson, Director of C-Day: Fill The Hill. …

Students look for allies to fight climate change
Belleville Intelligencer – Luke Hendry – ‎Oct 21, 2009‎
Marysville’s Stephanie Whalen and her brother, Justin, are organizing bus trips for what’s being called “C-Day: Fill the Hill,” a peaceful rally intended to …

Students encouraged to Fill the Hill in Ottawa
Ontarian – Guelph,ON,Canada
On Oct. 24, Parliament Hill in Ottawa will be swarmed with people … Gracen Johnson, a 20 year-old environmental advocate and international …

Fill the Hill event to draw attention to climate change
Guelph Mercury – Guelph,Ontario,Canada
Gracen Johnson, a third-year University of Guelph student, and Aiden Abram, an alumnus of the university, are organizing Fill the Hill, an event aimed at …

Guelph Student Aims to ‘Fill the Hill’ on Climate Action Day
Canada Views – Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
… said organizer Gracen Johnson. The 20-year-old environmental advocate and U of G international development student is urging people from all backgrounds …

Making mischief will matter: Grassroots action heats up in lead-up to Copenhagen climate summit
Now Magazine, Toronto, Ontario
The following week, October 24 is International Day of Climate Action, and the big push is for a large “fill the hill” action on Parliament Hill in Ottawa….

Act to counter climate change before it’s too late

Malcolm Griffith – The Kingston Whig Standard

Gwynne Dyer’s excellent column “Headed toward catastrophe” (Oct. 5) calls our attention to the horrific world that almost all climate scientists believe our children and grandchildren will live on unless we take radical action to stop global warming immediately…

Western News – Campus Digest

UWO Fills The Hill.

Climate Day in Canada: Fill the Hill in Ottawa
thegreenpages.ca
Ottawa – On October 24, thousands of Canadians will converge on Parliament Hill to effect legislative action on climate change…

Media Advisory – Over 100 demonstrations organized across Canada …
Canada NewsWire (press release) – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Where: The Royal Theatre in Toronto When: Monday September 21st, 7:30pm – Toronto, ON: C-Day Fill the Hill…tck tck tck – demonstration Where: Yonge …

Journey to an Activist
thegreenpages.ca
Gracen Johnson avoided the label ‘activist’ for most of her young life. Now, at 20, the University of Guelph student and self-described environmental advocate, finds herself at the helm of Canada’s largest citizens’ mobilization effort on climate change….