Actions & Events
Here are the campaigns SCAN! is working on. Please join in and check back for updates.

Ford’s Climate Crimes/SCAN! Takes On Environment Minister Piccini
SCAN! and our supporters will rally outside David Piccini’s office, 117 Peter Street, Port Hope, on May 11 at noon to hold Piccini and Ford...

Emergency in Ontario: Rally for Climate, Communities and Nature!
SCAN! members are invited to attend the Emergency in Ontario rally in Toronto on May 14 at 1 pm. Greenhouse gas emissions are rising, protections...

SCAN! Fundraising Concert Postponed
This concert has been postponed to the fall, and the new date will be announced as soon as possible. Thank you to all who reserved tickets. ...

Special Election Event/Ring of Fire Threatens The Breathing Lands
Please join us on Thursday, May 12, 7:00-8:30 pm EDT, for a special presentation on the threat to the Breathing Lands posed by the Ring of Fire. The...

Doug Ford’s Climate Crimes/A Virtual Presentation
Join us on Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 pm EDT for a thought-provoking presentation followed by an opportunity for discussion about the ways climate...

Canada’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan
Emission Impossible: Why Canada's Emission Reduction Plan Won't Work by Martin Bush The Canadian government’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan is...

The Citizen’s Climate Pledge
The Climate Pledge encourages everyone to participate to empower change. We need to urgently and massively transform our way of life in order to...

Human Health and the Climate Emergency
Join us on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 8pm for a virtual presentation by Dr. Samantha Green of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the...

March 25th is a global day of action
SCAN! sent Fridays For Future a letter to support youth in the fight for climate action, which is part of our mandate. We copied federal ministers...

Support Indigenous Rights
Support Indigenous Rights & stop the federal environmental assessment in the Ring of Fire! Send a Message to Canada: Stop the Ring of Fire and...

Haliburton Enviro-Café on February 8, 2022
Join SCAN! member David Robertson on the Environment Haliburton Enviro-Café on February 8, 2022 @ 7:30pm to hear about the immense and growing cost...

Scan! Webinar
Posing as Canadian Big Foreign Oil's Capture of Canada's Energy and Climate Policy Join us for a virtual presentation by Gordon Laxer on Big Foreign...

Wet’suwet’en
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November 24 General Membership Meeting
David Robertson - Post COP26 Reflections Terry Moore – COP26 and Net Zero 2050 Gail Greer – COP 26 and The Glasgow Climate Pact Satirical video...

Marc Lee: How Net-zero is a Distraction
October 28 webinar featuring Marc Lee, explaining how net-zero is a distraction to the push for a complete phase-out of fossil fuels. Watch the...

November 6 SCAN! Toronto rally at Queen’s Park
SCAN! members were part of the November 6th, 2021 Global Day for Climate Justice at Queen’s Park. Click here for more photos!

Thermal Coal Letter
SCAN! signed on to this letter to the Prime Minister urging his government to take swift action in implementing their commitment to ban thermal coal...

COP26 webinar on net-zero
This was an COP26 webinar on net-zero with Marc Lee, hosted by SCAN!

People’s Climate Movement
People’s Climate Movement SCAN! attended the people's climate moment event in Toronto. See more photos here.

Climate Emergency Day of Action, Sept. 8
The Good, The Bad & The UglyView the PowerPoint presentation here Photos from the day: Toronto, Queen’s Park: view album here Waterloo:

Fridays For Future
'Stand Up for the Planet' Music Video- written and performed by SCAN! membersBilly Bryans Lane Vid - made by SCAN! members to show their support for...

Making a Submission to the Ontario government Greenbelt Expansion Consultation
Making a Submission to the Ontario government Greenbelt Expansion Consultation Many organizations and individuals are working hard to build...

SCAN! Presents: Making Fossil Fuel History
SCAN! Presents: Making Fossil Fuel History. Past discussion with The Energy Mix’s Mitchell Beer. Watch the online event here.

Divestment Letter to CPP
SCAN! divestment letter to John Graham, President & CEO at CPP Investments, to encourage a step away from investing in fossil fuels. Read...

Safe Water For First Nations
As part of SCAN!’s statement of purpose, we support Indigenous peoples’ rights, including access to clean drinking water. Drinking water advisories...

Call for Immediate Moratorium in the Ring of Fire
Please join us and sign on to this statement calling on Canada and Ontario to establish an immediate moratorium in the Ring of Fire. Help us live...

End Thermal Coal
The Trudeau government continues to mine and export thermal coal — one of the world’s dirtiest fossil fuels. Thermal coal is so bad for people and...

Shut Down Line 5
The politics of oil pipelines is exemplified by the struggle between the Governor of Michigan and Enbridge over Line 5. Enbridge was given 180 days...

Amendments to Bill C-12
As a result of the brief submitted by SCAN! and other organizations to the Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development of the...

Phase out Ontario gas-fired power plants by 2030
Already 27 Ontario municipalities have passed resolutions calling for a phase-out of gas-fired power plants and more than 60 organizations,...

End All Fossil Fuel Financing
SCAN! signed on to Environmental Defence’s call to join 100+ orgs representing ~2.5 million people calling on @mary_ng to ensure that Canada ends...

Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty – STEP UP TORONTO!
Toronto City Council voted 22-2 on this motion: City Council formally endorse the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. City Council...

SCAN! opposes government support for carbon capture and storage technologies.
SCAN! joined a score of international organizations and dozens of Canadian organizations writing to express deep concerns about our governments’...

Election 2021: Code Red
"The alarm bells are deafening and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our...

We need a National Day for truth and Reconciliation
“SCAN!’s letter asking the Premier to join several provinces calling on the Ontario government to join them in designating a statutory holiday:...

Climate Cook Offs
Climate Cook Off, Sept. 11 at Dovercourt Park, TorontoClimate Cook Off, Sept. 15, Bellevue Square Park

People-Centred Just Transition – Federal Government Consultation
Here is SCAN!’s submission to the federal government consultation on a just transition Read Submission Here

#RBCIsKillingme
SCAN! members came out to support young activists demonstrating against RBC. #RBCIsKillingme

Nov 7, 2021 Webinar
SCAN! cosponsored a webinar with Science for Peace & ClimateFast. The following videos are from that webinar: Canada’s Climate Record : Broken...

SCAN! Webinar, March 2 @ 7:30
SCAN! Webinar, March 2 @ 7:30. Co-sponsored with Environment Haliburton and Action Mukoka on “The High Price of Bad Energy Choices Doug Ford,...