They Did Not Walk Alone: Day 1 of Canada’s First Youth Climate Trial 

At 8:30 on Monday morning, under a soft grey Vancouver sky, about 100 people gathered on the sidewalk outside the Federal Court of Canada and waited. There were elders and students, singers from the West Coast Labour Chorus, pink and green paper hearts lifted on sticks above the crowd, and signs that said what everyone there already believed: Youth Over Fossil Fuels. And when the young plaintiffs in La Rose v. His Majesty the King came walking up the street through the fallen autumn leaves, the whole sidewalk rose to meet them with cheers.