Anti-pipeline rally
November 19, 2013 Rallies took place across Canada. In Ottawa, we rallied in beautiful, sunny 20C (68F) weather. In the Ottawa demo, the Prime Minister’s Office was ‘sandbagged’ to stop Harper’s...
View ArticleProtest against secrecy and the TPP
On July 10, the Ottawa Grans attended a hastily called demonstration by SumOfUs. Negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement made a last minute change of venue. They were...
View ArticleOttawa Grans at the Unconvention in Montreal
June 25-28, 2014 Congratulations to the Montreal Raging Grannies on a great unconvention! Ten of us attended: Bessa, Gale, Jane, Jeanette, Jo, Linda, Loris, Ria, Siobhan, and Virginia. We put on a...
View ArticlePeople’s Climate March — Ottawa Photo Op
The Ottawa Raging Grannies did more than just show up for the Parliament Hill Rally to provide supporting photos from around the world to be shown in New York during the major People’s Climate Events....
View ArticleA monument has popped up on the Supreme Court grounds
OTTAWA : 11 am, 26 September, 2014, Grounds of the Supreme Court of Canada The Ottawa Raging Grannies have constructed a monument to all victims “thrown under the bus” by the Harper government. The...
View ArticleOttawa Grans at Climate Justice Fast
For the third year, a group of activists have fasted on Parliament Hill while engaging in conversations with MPs and others on the importance of climate change action. Check them out at...
View ArticleOttawa Raging Grannies join environmental groups in Energy East Pipeline...
The Premiers meeting in the Delta Hotel was too much to resist as a venue for protesting the Ottawa East Pipeline, particularly making the point that the Elephant in the Room is climate change. Along...
View ArticleOttawa Grans infiltrate Canadian Club lunch where President of Energy East...
Armed with two banners and four tickets at $40 each (senior rate), members of the Ottawa Raging Grannies infiltrated a Canadian Club lunch where the corporate group gathered to hear the President of...
View ArticleA Plea for Toilets in the LRT Stations.
The Ottawa Raging Grannies came out in numbers to a meeting of the City Environment Committee where the budget was being discussed. Our purpose was to sing in favour of public toilets in the new LRT...
View ArticleOttawa Grans at National Day of Protest against Bill C-51
A large, energetic crowd of around 1000 came out to protest Bill C-51, the so-called “anti-terrorism” bill that will virtually bring the secret police and wide suppression of peaceful protest to...
View ArticleGrannies hold Nuclear Tea Party to warn of planned nuclear waste dump near...
Very few people in Ottawa are aware that a nuclear waste dump, 9 stories high and 100 football fields in width is going to be built in Chalk River, near the Ottawa River. The Grannies want to sound...
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