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Band-aid solutions are being promoted over what patients and primary health care providers actually need.

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PAOV — Girl Guide Ophelia has spent over a year asking Girl Guides Canada to stop using palm oil in their cookies. The process of growing and harvesting palm oil causes massive deforestation and is not a sustainable practice. Girl Guides Canada CEO Jill Zelmanovits is standing firm

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PAOV — Seven bears have been euthanized in Nelson this year, including a mother and her two cubs. Petition starter Jess is urging the government to adapt their policies so bears are protected and relocated instead of being needlessly killed. You can help by signing the petition today.

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Beekeepers are finding a carpet of dead bees where hives used to live – and it's about to get much worse.

Bayer and Syngenta are using an “emergency” loophole in the law to try and dismantle the progress we've made on

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How the palm oil in Head&Shoulders shampoo is linked to deforestation

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Have you seen this? Head&Shoulders and Herbal Essences shampoo are made with palm oil linked to the destruction of the Leuser ecosystem, the organgutan capital of the world. 30,000 SumOfUs members have signed the petition to urge

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Just a quick update about the Saudi campaign - after 60,000 of us signed the petition and sent tweets, a prominent technologist from the group Data for Black Lives decided to boycott the event.

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The UN is pleading for help to secure the last $12 million it needs to begin the rescue operation for a decaying oil tanker off the coast of Yemen – and prevent an oil spill four times worse than the Exxon Valdez .

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Across East Africa elite rangers are deploying to the world’s worst poaching hotspots , training and equipping local communities with the skills and gear they need to stop the slaughter of endangered wildlife.

1,900 rangers trained by this elite group have

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PAOV — There are still 31 boil water advisories in First Nations communities across the country, and 73% of First Nations water systems are at serious risk of contamination. Petition starter and global water activist Autumn Peltier is urging the federal government to take immediate action to bring

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Pierre Poilievre just decisively won the Conservative party leadership contest. That means a pipeline-pushing, anti-climate, far-right politician could be next in line to be Prime Minister, right in the middle of a make-or-break decade for

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Ben & Jerry's made a historic stance for Palestinian rights. But their parent company Unilever has made a backroom deal to try to reverse this decision. Call on Unilever to stop its betrayal of Ben & Jerry’s and stop profiting from illegal settlements.

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As students head back to school and concerns regarding youth safety grow, so too do the responsibilities of educators to oversee and prevent threats to the wellbeing of the student body. Given that students are

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The palm oil in your shampoo

Palm oil in your shampoo? Yes. Worse actually, forest destruction and climate chaos.

All thanks to Procter and Gamble’s repeated inaction and complicity in the worsening climate crisis. But P&G’s biggest meeting of the year is in a couple of weeks so if we

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PAOV — Ahmed is a family doctor who knows first-hand the detrimental effects the current physician shortage is having on Canadians. More than 5 million Canadians lack access to a primary care physician. Internationally trained doctors can help alleviate the backlog and Ahmed is calling on Canada to

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Paige and Dinjot here – we’re Dogwood’s staff organizers in Vancouver and Surrey.

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Nearly 800 million people worldwide live without electricity. It’s a silent killer – the deadly fumes inhaled from kerosene lamps are equivalent to smoking 40 cigarettes a day.

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PAOV — Canadians pay some of the highest internet and phone service fees in the world, and telecom companies regularly report hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. Despite this, Telus has submitted an application with the CRTC to charge a 1.5% credit card processing fee on all

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Plastic pollution is one of the greatest threats we’ll be facing in the next century.

As we move towards cleaner forms of transportation, plastic is the next opportunity for oil giants like Exxon, Gazprom and Saudi Aramco to continue destroying our planet. Plastic also

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Thanks again for urging speakers of Saudi's AI summit to boycott the event and stand with Salma.

We’ve tracked down the Twitter handles for key speakers, and if they each receive tweets from people around the world, it could persuade them to join our call.

Tweeting will take

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PAOV — A crucial parcel of farmland in Surrey is at risk of being sold and developed into industrial parks, putting the province’s access to BC-grown vegetables in jeopardy. The 300-acre site produces 30-50 million servings of vegetables like potatoes, carrots, and cabbage every year. It’s owned by

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We're SO close to winning this legal fight ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

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Our beekeeper friends are fighting Bayer in court to defend our right to protest its toxic pesticides.

Their case has made it all the way to the highest court: they're one step away from finally defeating Bayer. But they’re also running

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Thank you so much for signing to help free Salma and others like her.

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Outsourcing to private clinics

Private for-profit surgeries and medical imaging are big business in BC and taxpayers are funding them. Over the last six years, the BC government has subsidized for-profit providers through

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Fossil fuels did this. Let's demand real climate action from the Trudeau government. r1

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Over the past two weeks, Pakistan has experienced cataclysmic floods triggered by climate-fuelled monsoons and glacial melting. Thousands have lost their lives and at least 33 million people have been displaced, costing billions of dollars

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Beekeepers are so close to defeating Bayer ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

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Our beekeeper friends are fighting Bayer in court to defend our right to protest its toxic pesticides.

Their case has made it all the way to the highest court: they're one step away from finally defeating Bayer. But they’re also running out

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PAOV — After 35 years with CTV National News, Lisa LaFlamme was abruptly let go from her position. The petition Miles started urging Bell Media to reinstate LaFlamme has become the fastest growing petition in Canada. Feeling shocked and outraged, over 182,000 people have signed it so far

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It took about two minutes for me to give my family the rundown on what’s going on with the BC NDP leadership race this fall. I did it while we were sitting around the table at our weekly Sunday Night Dinner.

I don’t usually talk to…

The Saudi Arabian government has just sentenced Salma Al-Shehab to 34 years in prison for tweeting support for reforms.

In two weeks the world's top AI technologists will speak at a summit in Saudi, but if they call for Salma's freedom and boycott the event, it could force the Saudi

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PAOV — Several countries have plans to begin commercial octopus farming within the next year. Farming carnivorous animals like octopuses places even more strain on the oceans because it means taking another species out of the ocean to feed them. There is also no reliably humane way to

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We helped put on a side event during the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva. At the event four expert panelists discussed the law

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After we sued the city of Portland to access police records

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Let's flood the emissions cap consultations to demand bold climate action. r1

Paov,

One of Trudeau’s big climate promises last election was to put a cap on how much pollution the oil and gas sector can emit. Almost a year later, the federal government is asking for public feedback on

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PAOV — An active bald eagle nest, home to a breeding pair and their eaglets, is being put at risk by a luxury home development in British Columbia. Developers plan to “cone” the nest this fall, which will cover the nest and force the eagles to abandon it.

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Connect with leaders from our movement on September 1 and 2. r1

Hi Paov,

I'd like to invite you to connect with leaders from our movement at our Climate Justice Conversations next week, on September 1 and 2.

These will be online conversations where we'll hear from different leaders of

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Accompaniment updates r1 PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS at regional meeting of women human rights defenders in San Pablo, Sur de Bolívar PBI-Honduras attends presentation of draft report on agrarian conflict in Aguán valley PBI-Honduras observes presentation of amparo appeal in the disappearance of four Garifuna social leaders ...…

Email Template r1 Your place for news and action A climate leader could be premier before Christmas this year, with two years to govern before the next general election. I’m sure that worries oil and gas CEOs, and the senior bureaucrats and party mandarins who have enabled their takeover of…

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Last week BC Attorney General David Eby threw human rights, civil liberties, and evidence under the bus in an attempt to score political points during his leadership campaign. Minister Eby suggested that the state should be able to involuntarily

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PAOV — Petition starter and global water activist Autumn Peltier is urging the federal government to take strong and immediate action to bring clean water to every First Nations community. There are still 31 boil water advisories in effect in First Nations communities across Canada, and 73% of

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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Democratic Majority for Israel

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Ontario’s public health care is under attack! The Ford government is considering selling off parts of the health service to greedy for-profit companies. He wants to turn us into the US . Add your name and tell them: hands off our health care!

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Premier Doug Ford wants

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What’s flyer than home-grown, clean tech jobs? r1 The federal government's advocacy for the auto industry has been successful. But when it comes to transit, experts say that Canada has fallen behind. ...

Anjai Appadurai has been a leader in the fight for climate justice for well over a decade. Now, she’s running to be the leader of the BCNDP, and BC’s next Premier. r1

Hi Paov,

Anjai Appadurai has been a leader in the fight for climate justice for well over a

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