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Wow - in the last three days since we sent this email below, 300 of you have signed up to visit candidates about PR. Thank you! Dear ,

We need volunteers in as many ridings as possible so we can influence the candidates, and tell voters where every candidate stands before we vote. If you can help by visiting one or more candidates, please sign up now!

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Thanks again to each of you for helping us Make 2015 the Last Unfair Election.

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Reverend Al and Victoria Street Life, Stephen Portman representing TAPS

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Posted on February 27, 2015by Janine Bandcroft
https://janinebandcroft.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/woc-022615-rev-al-stephen-portman-chris-cook-ff.mp3

Victoria BC is internationally recognized as a tourist destination, and a good one at that.  It’s a beautiful city surrounded by whatever’s left of the wilderness, in a province that recently boasted a surplus.  It’s also home to a significant population of homeless people, with many disabled people living in poverty and growing numbers of working poor.  Provincial welfare, disability, and minimum wage rates contribute to the highest child poverty rate in Canada (for over 10 years).  On today’s program I speak with Reverend Al who’s been working directly with the city’s most vulnerable for 35 years, with Stephen Portman representing TAPS who provide various forms of advocacy, and a rebroadcast of a segment originally broadcast at Co-op Radio featuring Iglika Ivanova, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to analyze the recent provincial budget.  
https://janinebandcroft.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/reverend-al-and-victoria-street-life-stephen-portman-from-together-against-poverty-society-chris-cook-and-what-in-the-world/

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A Family Business of Perpetual War

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Published on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:15

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Exclusive: Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan have a great mom-and-pop business going. From the State Department, she generates wars and – from op-ed pages – he demands Congress buy more weapons. There’s a pay-off, too, as grateful military contractors kick in money to think tanks where other Kagans work, writes Robert Parry.

BY ROBERT PARRY

Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia – and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military spending so America can meet these new security threats.

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Tar Sands Campaigners Are Canadas New Terrorists

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Evidently believing it is in danger of losing the fight against pipeline projects intended to speed up Alberta tar sands production, its response is to place environmentalists under surveillance.

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Toronto's Plan to Push Out the Homeless

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Published on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 06:45

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1094 .... March 24, 2015
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Toronto’s Plan to Push Out the Homeless

John Clarke

The Mayor's Office in Toronto is today occupied by a much slicker operation than it was during the years of dysfunctional, bigoted buffoonery that unfolded under Rob Ford. Mayor John Tory has resumed the drive toward a fully fledged neoliberal city but has the basic political skills to frame his twin agendas of austerity and upscale redevelopment in the language of inclusiveness. He has been sufficiently proficient at this to rapidly create what Michael Laxer has termed an "austerity consensus" supported by the overwhelming majority of the Council, including its left wing.

The agenda of the developers with regard to the central part of Toronto is to complete the creation of an interwoven hive of...

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Tribes call on world leaders to recognize their right to hunt - News from Survival

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Published on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:15

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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - March 23, 2015

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Published on Monday, 23 March 2015 13:30

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This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to www.canadians.org. Please forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.

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This World Water Day, a Recovery Plan Is More Important Than Ever

Twenty-two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared March 22 to be World Water Day. In a world is facing a severe and growing water crisis without a roadmap, this day is more important than ever.

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#INMroots Reconnecting Through Resistance

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Published on Monday, 23 March 2015 12:00

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This week @ rabble.ca: Stand against austerity and the petro-economy!

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Published on Monday, 23 March 2015 10:00

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20 Mar 2015

Hey rabble readers!

Spring is being welcomed in Quebec with a Popular Protest (Manifestation populaire) against austerity and the petro-economy this Saturday, March 21, called by Printemps 2015 organizers. Stand against austerity and a fossil fuel economy! Get all the details here.

Journalist Chris Hedges was to speak at Toronto's protest against C-51 last Saturday. Weather delayed his flight, but rabble.ca caught up with him for an exclusive interview. Get his thoughts on C-51 and the corporate state, then read the text of his address, which we present here.

On February 18, a panel discussion was held in Ottawa to mark the release of Parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg's new book, Harper vs. Canada: Five Ways of Looking at the Conservative Regime. Listen to the discussion, featuring Karl Nerenberg, Maude Barlow and author Mark Bourrie, here.

Canada's annual reading reality show, Canada Reads, battled it out this week and we were watching! Which books were booted and which one came out the winner? Catch up on all the action with our books intern, Lauren Scott, who has been covering the series all week!

This year's Canada Reads competition was about literature's capacity to break barriers, but literary culture in Canada faces a number of challenges itself. Read Lucia Lorenzi's wonderful take on what Canada Reads would look like if it really took "breaking barriers" seriously.

In a three-part series, food security activist Jesse Bauman breaks the myth that poor people can't cook, discussing why low-income families eat less healthy food, the silly things that are offered as advice, and why it is a problem to make food literacy the explanation for food insecurity. Find the series here.

In Ottawa next week? Don't miss "The Inconvenient Truth about Harper's Canada" with Michael Harris and Donald Gutstein! Get your tickets online from Octopus Books -- or get two free tickets when you purchase a copy of Party of One by Michael Harris or Harperism by Donald Gutstein before 6 p.m. on March 24. Come by one of Octopus Books' two locations for this special offer!

Join #FierceVoices, a community series in Vancouver organized by rabble.ca and Women Transforming Cities. The first event in the series looks at critically examining media using an anti-oppressive lens, featuring speakers Jarrah Hodge and Jen Sookfong Lee. Come on out Wednesday, March 25, for an evening of speakers, glue and glitter!

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Wynne Gives Big Retail the Gift of Beer

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Published on Monday, 23 March 2015 06:30

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Wynne Gives Big Retail the Gift of Beer

Gavin Fridell

The heads of big retail might be walking with a spring in their step this week due to a potentially generous gift from Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. After months of wrangling over what to do with The Beer Store (TBS) semi-monopoly, granted by the Ontario government to some of the world's largest beer companies, Wynne has decided to open things up -- to a select group of giant retail chains.

According to media reports, Wynne plans to offer special licenses for the sale of beer at 300 stores across Ontario. She also plans to impose new taxes on TBS, and loosen restrictions on wine sales.

To allocate these coveted licenses, they will be...

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It's time for "conservation" to stop the abuse

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Published on Sunday, 22 March 2015 08:15

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Gaining Ground

Survival’s work to end harmful conservation practices is building momentum. The campaign has been featured in the international media, such as the LA Times, BBC World Service, Reuters, Vice, The Telegraph and many more. Survival’s contacts in different countries have reported that certain tribal communities have received less abuse from forest guards since we launched our Parks Need Peoples campaign. This is a positive sign, but there is still a long way to go. Tribal peoples’ lives and lands are still being destroyed by the conservation industry, tourism and big business. They are...

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Climate and Capitalism

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Published on Saturday, 21 March 2015 22:45

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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 15 March 2015

Climate and Capitalism:

Climate Change Impacts on the Global South and Inadequate UN Agreements

Climate change is already catastrophic for countless people around the world, especially in parts of the Global South. Some residents of low-lying Island States in the Pacific Ocean are already having to move to other countries as a result of rising sea levels. Water is also rising in Bangladesh, swallowing up coastal areas and contaminating fertile land. In East Africa changing sea surface temperatures have disrupted seasonal rains and lead to severe droughts while West Africa is experiencing rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns which are threatening agriculture. Meanwhile, South Asia and South East Asia have been subjected to extreme weather events that have killed and displaced tens of thousands of people, with more...

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Puppies

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Published on Saturday, 21 March 2015 09:30

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Vacuuming the ocean

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