Protestors marched through the streets of Vancouver today as part of a national day of action focusing on climate change.
The event was organized after the leaders' debates were announced for this week in Ottawa to draw attention to human-caused climate change. It's one of many held across Canada.
"We’re in an election that was called after a summer where most of Canada was either on fire, covered in smoke, flooding or facing some other climate impact, with rural and Indigenous communities being hardest hit,” organizer Corrin Yewchuk says in a press release. “This is what a climate emergency looks like and it’s time for politicians to propose solutions that actually meet the scale of this crisis.”
The rally comes at the end of the second hottest summer ever in Vancouver, during which fires ripped through B.C. communities like Lytton and Monte Lake.
Participants included members of local First Nations and Green Party supporters.
The rally started near CBC Vancouver at 11:30 a.m. before moving through the city's core. No arrests occurred as a part of the protest police report.
