{"id":820850,"date":"2026-07-23T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820850\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:03:10","slug":"why-is-a-quebec-town-giving-rights-to-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820850\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is a Quebec town giving rights to trees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Quebec town of 2,000 people just west of Montreal has become the first place in Canada to recognize the rights of trees.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Quebec filmmaker, Andr\u00e9 Desrochers, the Terrasse-Vaudreuil city council adopted a resolution that protects a tree\u2019s right to growth, life, integrity and regeneration, while also signing on to the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.<\/p>\n<p>Host Caryn Ceolin speaks to Sylvie Trepanier, a member of the Terrasse-Vaudreuil Environmental Committee, to discuss their case for legally protecting the trees, and why other parts of the country may want to consider doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>You can subscribe to The Big Story podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/the-big-story\/id1399721065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/19XvYEmmtPYqWXwdAx0tet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Quebec town of 2,000 people just west of Montreal has become the first place in Canada to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-820850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}