ACTIVlist Update - August 26, 2016
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The politically hip Gord Downie
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I went to see the Tragically Hip play in Ottawa. It was a memorable concert and additionally moving given the band's singer and lyricist Gord Downie is courageously facing brain cancer.
Windsor chapter to support Grandmothers at Walpole Island First Nation pipeline blockade
“When I saw the welcoming ceremony in front of the Water Treatment facility, and knowing the history of gas and oil extraction, and the... fracking that goes behind it … it is not a friendly enterprise. ...I just went and grabbed onto that monster." - Corrine Tooshkenig
Healing is Greater Than Logging in St'át'imc Territory
A Voice for the Voiceless Camp is nestled in St'át'imc (pronounced “STAT-lee-um”) territory in an area long inhabited by the Xwisten (“n-HOY-shten”) community, also known as the Bridge River Band.
5 things I learned at the NEB hearings in New Brunswick
We hope these five lessons will help make your intervention at the Energy East NEB hearings effective and empowering!
Town loses to Nestle in bid to buy well to secure water supply
The CBC is reporting more details about the purchase of the Middlebrook well by bottled water giant Nestle. They interviewed Mayor Kerry Linton of the Township of Centre Wellington about the township’s attempt to purchase the well themselves to secure their municipal water needs in the near future.
Nestle buys more groundwater as drought rages on in Southern Ontario
In the middle of a severe drought in southern Ontario, the bottled water giant Nestle is buying up more groundwater sources and now has permits from the Ontario government to remove a total of over 20 million litres of water per day!
Council of Canadians calls for justice for Colten Boushie
The Council of Canadians is calling for justice for Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old man from the Red Pheasant First Nation who was killed earlier this month.
Council of Canadians in solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux tribe against pipeline
The Council of Canadians expresses its solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their allies in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois who have mobilized to stop the building of the Dakota Access pipeline by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners and Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. (which owns a US$1.5 billion share in the pipeline).
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