[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - September 28, 2015
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Sorry Harper, the Canada-EU Trade Agreement Is Still Not a Done Deal
A year ago – Sept. 26 to be exact – Prime Minister Harper announced the conclusion of negotiations of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Juan Manual Borroso, then-president of the European Commission and Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, flown in to celebrate... at the taxpayers expense – the flights alone cost $300,000.
WIN! Sustainable Development Goals include the right to drinking water and
sanitation
The Guardian reports, "To cheers, applause and probably a tinge of relief, the 17 global goals that will provide the blueprint for the world’s development over the next 15 years were ratified by UN member states in New York on Friday. ...The ambitious agenda – which aims to tackle poverty, climate change and inequality for all people in all countries – was signed off by 193 countries at the start of a three-day UN summit on sustainable development."
H2O in #elxn42: Your Guide to Water and the Federal Election
With the election three weeks away, water has barely made it on the radar of federal political parties. Want to learn what the different parties’ positions are on key water issues? What should you ask parties at all-candidates debates or when they come knocking at your door? This blog gives an overview of some key water issues, parties’ positions and includes questions to ask local candidates at debates, when they come to your door or even in the Twitterverse. Leading up to October 19, it’s up to us to make sure federal parties know the importance of safeguarding water.
Harper set to make massive Trans Pacific Partnership concessions during this federal election
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trade minister Ed Fast will be in Atlanta next week for critical talks relating to the 12-country Trans Pacific Partnership 'free trade' deal.
8 chapters participate in joint democracy-trade day of action
Today is both a "We Can Do Better" day of action and a Transatlantic day of action against the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
The Minister-President of the French Community of Belgium expresses concern about CETA
Rudy Demotte, the Minister-President of the French Community of Belgium, doesn't want CETA signed as is. He says, “We are studying this with the government with all the ways and means so that CETA is not signed in its current state.”
Nunatsiavut threatened by mercury contamination from Muskrat Falls dam
The Government of Nunatsiavut is concerned that the thousands of Inuit people who eat fish downstream of the planned Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam project could be at risk mercury contamination.
Chiefs of Ontario launch "Who Is She" campaign
The Council of Canadians has repeatedly called on the Harper government to support a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. Indigenous women make up 4.3 per cent of the Canadian population, but they account for 16 per cent of murdered women and 11.3 per cent of missing women in Canada. Over the past 30 years, 1,026 Indigenous women have been murdered and 160 are missing.
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