Mi’kmaw elder Dorene Bernard wants to raise awareness about climate change and its damaging effects to the environment.

“There’s more people awakened to the urgency about climate change, of the impact to the land and water,” Bernard said at an Earth Day celebration in Kjipuktuk (Mi’kmaw for Halifax) on April 22.

Bernard, a Mi’kmaw grandmother and a water walker who help stop the Alton Gas project near Stewiake, N.S., was invited to lead the Earth Day march from Sackville Landing to the nearby Peace and Friendship Park.

More than 800 people took part in the People’s Parade for Life on Earth which included displays such as giant forest animal pup…

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