A cohort of climate-conscious senior citizens caravanning across Canada to converge on the country’s capital, in a call for commitments to countering the consequences of extreme weather, stopped in Revelstoke last Thursday. The golden-agers travelling from Victoria launched Sept. 9, meeting with scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki in Vancouver and aiming to reach Ottawa by end of this week. An East Coast caravan departing from Nova Scotia is also bound for Parliament Hill. Seniors’ Climate Witness’s (SCW) members include Amalia Schelhorn, Bill Darnell, Brian Short, Dawn Moorhead, Michael Polanyi and Yves Parizeau from Victoria, Brooke Lydbrooke and Sharon Bider from Toronto, and Etienne Eason from Ottawa. …In an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney in August, they said they’re visiting communities that’ve experienced the impacts of this summer’s wildfire season. This includes evacuations, choking smoke, forestry loss and declines in tourism.