As a member of climate justice group Last Generation Canada, Concordia University student Étienne Eason went to jail in 2024 after vandalizing an Ottawa museum dinosaur replica to protest climate change.

On the morning of February 8, 2024, Étienne Eason bought a ticket to Ottawa’s Museum of Nature, chatted amiably with the staffer at the kiosk, and made his way to the dinosaur exhibit.

He pretended to read the labels under the display cases, waiting for the security guard to be distracted. Then he pulled a fire extinguisher filled with pink paint out of his knapsack, and while trying to avoid any genuine fossils, began spraying the museum’s 12-foot replica Carnosaur skeleton.

Mr. Eason is slender as a sapling, with oversized glasses that add a wide-eyed nerdiness. Even later, in his m

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