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Palm oil
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- Published on Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:48
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Oreo cookies and Toblerone bars come with a bad palm oil aftertaste. From deforestation to land grab, the palm oil industry is as dirty as it gets. The good thing is, Oreo maker Mondelēz wants to be a sustainability champion, so let’s push it to become one before it changes its mind.
Sylvia,
Oreo maker Mondelēz claims it’s “made snacking right” using only sustainable palm oil. But this is just a marketing smokescreen trying to cover up a supply chain so complicated and opaque, it’s darker than an Oreo! Meanwhile, the candy giant dreams of being a sustainability champion and together, we can make this dream come true.
Mondelēz has already cut ties with many big, bad palm oil producers – but there are too...
Kill The Deal Coalition has a message for you, PAOV
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- Published on Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:58
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Free this Thursday?
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- Published on Tuesday, 24 January 2023 16:06
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Rogers-Shaw merger
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- Published on Tuesday, 24 January 2023 14:53
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PAOV — You can make a difference. If you think the Rogers-Shaw merger should be stopped, sign now.
Kill The Deal Canada
20,379 have signed Kill The Deal Coalition’s petition. Let’s get to 25,000!
Sign now with a clickIn March 2021, Rogers and Shaw announced that they reached an agreement for Rogers to acquire Shaw in a merger valued at approximately $26.2 billion.
This is bad for Canada and bad for...
Evicting terminally-ill cancer patient?
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- Published on Monday, 23 January 2023 14:25
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PAOV — You can make a difference. Sign now to help Abra and Mike.
Stop Abra & Mike’s Eviction!
15,787 have signed Erica Shiner’s petition. Let’s get to 25,000!
Sign now with a clickA message from our lovely Abra —
I am a terminally ill cancer patient with an evolving unstable metastatic cancer, I am undergoing treatment to attempt to live a little longer, perhaps five or even ten years, at this...
January E-News from Canadian Friends Service Committee
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- Published on Monday, 23 January 2023 08:07
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Reconciliation video series is back with new 1-2 minute clips!
Do you ever feel that you’d like to advance the work of reconciliation, but you’re confused or unsure where to begin? You have questions but don’t know who to ask.
To help you out, we’ve spent the past three years asking Indigenous partners questions about reconciliation. Are you curious about their responses? The good news is that we brought a videographer with us to capture the conversations. More good news, new videos are being added over the coming weeks! Meet some of our Indigenous friends and partners and hear from them directly. Watch the short videos.
CFSC joins Listen First network
The...
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U.S. Military Vets in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
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- Published on Sunday, 22 January 2023 16:21
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Canada's loneliest orca
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- Published on Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:43
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PAOV, we thought this petition might interest you, based on related causes you’ve supported before.
Free Kiska, the Last Orca Held in Captivity in Canada
315,716 have signed Molly McKinney’s petition. Let’s get to 500,000!
Sign now with a clickSpanish | Turkish | Italian | German | French
Kiska is the last...
The end of the Amazon forest?
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- Published on Saturday, 21 January 2023 23:55
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Sylvia,
The Amazon is speeding toward a point of no return — scientists say if 20% of the forest is lost, it will set off a domino chain that will cause the whole ecosystem to collapse.
18% of the forest is now gone. Local communities are crying out after 3 years of drought. We should be in red alert.
Yet the worst offenders behind the climate forces destroying the Amazon – a rotten, predatory financial industry that has poured an astounding $4.6 trillion into fossil fuels in the last few years alone – are flying completely under the radar. Their profits are even soaring!
We’re going to change that. We have a crack team ready to hit the ground running – to expose the big banks’ responsibility for this Amazon emergency, then run massive campaigns in the media and with shareholders to force them to change. We’ll shine the spotlight on them like never before.
It could be...
19-year-old to be executed?
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- Published on Saturday, 21 January 2023 14:01
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PAOV — You can make a difference. Sign now to stop Makan’s execution.
STOP THE EXECUTION OF MAKAN DAVARI
56,458 have signed Nazanin Karimi’s petition. Let’s get to 75,000!
Sign now with a clickAccording to HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency), Ali (Makan) Davari, 19 years old was charged with ‘waging war against God’ (Moharebeh) after defending women’s rights in Iran.
The Iranian government has started executing Iranian protesters demanding basic freedoms...
Legal bills piling up
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- Published on Saturday, 21 January 2023 08:52
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The Intercept is being sued by billionaire mercenary Erik Prince. Again.
Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater, had his first defamation lawsuit against The Intercept tossed out of court. But instead of giving up, he refiled his case in another jurisdiction, and it was dismissed again.
Now, he’s filed a third time over the exact same story.
This is the weaponization of libel law: billionaires using their deep pockets to threaten the news media and chill journalism. Prince’s legal harassment has cost The Intercept more than $200,000 in outside legal fees as well as countless and seemingly never-ending hours by our legal department.
Dogwood News This Week: double standards
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- Published on Saturday, 21 January 2023 06:03
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Your place for
news and action Saturday January 21, 2023
It’s official: DFO is investigating Coastal GasLink for what, by all accounts, was a blatant disregard for salmon and steelhead habitat in Lho Kwa (the Clore River).
It took a federal regulator stepping in to get the company’s attention. Up until now, the province has handed out warnings and fines, but the company continued to break environmental rules.
To protect salmon eggs, the federal regulator needs to issue a stop work order so fishery officers and Wet’suwet’en rangers can conduct a proper investigation — and hold Coastal GasLink accountable.
But this recent flouting of the rules is not...
Appetite for construction
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- Published on Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:25
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Last chance to earn $ for sharing your opinion
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- Published on Thursday, 19 January 2023 10:45
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Paov --
In case you missed our last email we wanted to remind you of our event in Edmonton this Saturday. Participants can earn $100 for attending and sharing their thoughts on energy transition, climate change, and your livelihood. And there are only 10 spots left…
For those of you living in downtown Edmonton, will you join us this Saturday, January 21st?
We’ll take the results of all of these sessions and amplify your voices to political, business, and funding stakeholders across Canada so that the voices of the community are heard loud and clear.
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Not in Edmonton or can’t make it? Help us spread the word by sharing on the social media platform of your choice:
Unredacted NIH Emails Show Efforts to Rule Out Lab Origin of Covid
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- Published on Thursday, 19 January 2023 06:51
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The Amazon
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 January 2023 23:35
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Sylvia,
The Amazon is speeding toward a point of no return — scientists say if 20% of the forest is lost, it will set off a domino chain that will cause the whole ecosystem to collapse.
18% of the forest is now gone. Local communities are crying out after 3 years of drought. We should be in red alert.
Yet the worst offenders behind the climate forces destroying the Amazon – a rotten, predatory financial industry that has poured an astounding $4.6 trillion into fossil fuels in the last few years alone – are flying completely under the radar. Their profits are even soaring!
We’re going to change that. We have a crack team ready to hit the ground running – to expose the big banks’ responsibility for this Amazon emergency, then run massive campaigns in the media and with shareholders to force them to change. We’ll shine the spotlight on them like never before.
It could be a turning point for...
Alcohol warning labels
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:21
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PAOV — This issue is in the news, add your name to Courtney’s petition to put warnings on alcohol labels.
Advertise alcohol warnings about side effects and proper consumption on each container
1,121 have signed Courtney Gorman’s petition. Let’s get to 1,500!
Sign now with a click“Alcohol-related deaths remain a silent epidemic.” - Camille Bains, The Canadian Press (June 13, 2019).
https://globalnews.ca/news/5386829/alcohol-deaths-hospital-study/
The media normalizes drinking culture at all legal and illegal ages, at...
Tell House leadership to give C-SPAN full-time control of the cameras in Congress now
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 January 2023 10:55
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As Americans across the nation witnessed the GOP’s brutal infighting during the recent election for speaker of the House of Representatives, one crucial press freedom issue became clear: We must grant C-SPAN full-time control of the cameras in the House.
Right now, leadership in the House holds the reins on the cameras that film proceedings on the floor — but C-SPAN brought their own cameras to the House speaker battle.
This independent coverage gave viewers and journalists a glimpse of the dealmaking that House leadership would rather keep behind the curtains — helping outlets from the Washington Post to The Intercept dig into the real machinery of congressional power. It must be allowed to continue.
Granting...
Read more: Tell House leadership to give C-SPAN full-time control of the cameras in Congress now
People are paying attention
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 January 2023 13:22
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Paov,
The Trudeau government is set to unveil Just Transition legislation early this year, and Big Oil is already on the defensive. Their political ally, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been waging a war against Ottawa’s plan before it has even been released, spewing misinformation and sowing fear.1
The good news is, the media and public are paying attention to the Just Transition conversation more than ever before. This is a critical moment for our movement to lift up our vision for what a truly just transition to clean energy looks like.
Paov, the Liberal government has a track record of acknowledging the climate emergency while delaying critical climate action. They have been promising Just Transition legislation for years, and now that it’s around the corner they are already signalling that it won’t be as ambitious as many people expect.2 We can’t let them get away with half measures, delays and concessions to Big Oil at this crucial moment. We know...
You could get paid for sharing your thoughts with us…
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 January 2023 10:04
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Paov --
Politicians and business leaders seem to dominate the conversation around energy transition and climate change. But at the end of the day it's our livelihoods that are impacted.
That’s why we started Community Conversations, a series of small group conversations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland - all places deeply impacted by a transitioning economy.
For those of you living in downtown Edmonton, will you join us this Saturday, January 21st so that we can hear about what matters most to you?
We’ll take the results of all of these sessions and amplify your voices to political, business, and funding stakeholders across Canada so that the voices of the community are heard loud and clear.
It’s important to us that anyone who wants to participate can, so we have compensation available as well as reimbursements for transportation and childcare costs.
For those of you not in Edmonton,
help us to spread...
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