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Media Advisory: Hundreds of Canadian Kids Send Message to Prime Minister on Climate Change

Mon Nov 9, 2009 8:01am EST
  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Nov 09 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
WWF's Panda mascot will deliver more than 800 postcards from school
children across Canada as part of the My Future, My Climate Postcard
Contest. The contest, described as an exercise in creative advocacy,
encouraged kids between the ages of six and 14 to share their climate
change solution through artwork, accompanied by a personal letter of
appeal to the Prime Minister.

    Keith Stewart, Director of WWF-Canada's Climate Change Program will be
available in the Charles Lynch Press Theatre to speak to the urgent need
for action on climate change from Canada's leaders in order to preserve
our children's future. 


Date:     Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Time:     10:30 a.m. - News Conference in the Charles Lynch Press Theatre,
          Centre Block, Parliament Hill with WWF-Canada's Climate 
          Change Program Director, Keith Stewart

          10:45 a.m. - Photos of the Panda on the steps of Parliament with
          postcards and holding a climate change message 


    

Contacts:
WWF-Canada
Ashley Brasfield
416-489-4567 ext 7228
abrasfield@wwfcanada.org

WWF-Canada
Keith Stewart
416-985-5936
kstewart@wwfcanada.org

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