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Sign says: “The sea levels are rising. So are we.”

On one of those bone-chilling fall days, the first Friday of November, Alex Flett is planted along a corner of Albert Street.

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The Legislative Building is in view, and a few cars honk a friendly beep-beep-beep in support of the 15 people, some with cardboard signs sharing their message: Leave no footprint. Change the politics, not the climate. SOS.

In snow, rain and sun, 18-year-old Flett has spent many Fridays this year on or near this corner, calling for action on climate change. So has Paige Sellinger, also 18.

Flett is optimistic; you have to be, he says.

“We still do have breathable air and have drinkable water and we have the chance to protect it in our lifetimes.”

Now nearly six months out of high school, Flett and Sellinger have helped organize the occasional marches of hundreds in Regina, joining in worldwide Fridays For Future protests.