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Report Now Available! Red Women Rising
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2019 13:20
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We are excited to help circulate the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre's (DEWC) new report, Red Women Rising:...
ACTIVlist Update - April 3, 2019
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2019 11:40
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Canada is warming faster than we thought. What can we do about it?
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 canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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A new report leaked one day early from Environment and Climate Change Canada shows that Canada is experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at almost three times the global average.
The Power of Many vs. the Ford Agenda
The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) organizers of the Power...
We're getting the government on board
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2019 09:20
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Paov,
Just a few years ago, hardly any politicians were talking about Canada's skyrocketing cell phone plan prices—despite the fact that we pay more than nearly anyone else in the world.1
...Powerful New Report Released - Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2019 09:06
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Only hours left
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2019 08:02
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Help expand Anti - SLAPP protections
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...The Subway Belongs to Us
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2019 01:12
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1797 ... April 3, 2019
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The Subway Belongs to Us
Andy Battle
One evening in November, I left my job at Hunter College and descended to the platform at Sixty-Eighth Street, home to the number 6 train, which shambles down one of New York’s most notoriously crowded and poor-performing subway lines. For a hundred years, the Lexington Avenue line, colored a sort of forest green on the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) familiar maps, has been the only subway serving Manhattan’s densely-packed east side. With the demolition of the Second and Third Avenue elevated lines in 1942 and 1955, it became the only train, period, serving that half of the island.
The ‘els’ were demolished with the expectation that the city would relieve the resulting congestion by constructing a Second...
Sentences served, Myanmar hotel workers released from prison - the struggle for rights continues!
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2019 19:36
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Cafe Etico and CoDev present: Cooperative: La Lucha Sigue
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2019 08:50
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Breaking the law?
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2019 07:54
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Canada’s Auditor General released an alarming report urging Trudeau’s government to do a better job to sanction mining companies when they fail to protect Canadian waters and fish.
Now is the time to tell the federal government not to let Imperial Metals off the hook for the massive Mount Polley mine waste spill. Enforce the Fisheries Act now!
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Just today, Canada’s Auditor General released an alarming report urging Trudeau’s government to do a better job to sanction mining companies when...
A game changer for the CRTC
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2019 04:56
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...It's time to pass C-262
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2019 04:30
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It's time to pass Bill C-262
CFSC program assistant Keira Mann recently escorted a...
The Green New Deal Can Work -- Heres How
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2019 02:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1796 ... April 2, 2019
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The Green New Deal Can Work -- Here’s How
Jeremy Brecher
The Green New Deal (GND) resolution recently submitted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) proposes a broad vision to transform America. It calls for a mobilization to create a climate-safe America and thereby "create millions of good, high-wage jobs, virtually eliminate poverty, provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic securing for all U.S. persons, and counteract systemic injustices." Here’s a strategy for how it can succeed.
Mobilize Government
Global warming has rightly been called history’s "greatest market failure." Correcting it cannot be left to the market. The GND will need bold economic planning, industrial policies, and public investment to guide and facilitate the process. It will need full-employment...
Have you heard about #RavenPeopleRising, PAOV?
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- Published on Monday, 01 April 2019 15:16
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ACTIVlist Update - April 1, 2019
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- Published on Monday, 01 April 2019 11:30
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The Push and Pull of a New NAFTA
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With most eyes focused on the Trudeau-SNC Lavalin drama, another back-and-forth is going on involving ratification of the new NAFTA, dubbed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Michigan halts work on Enbridge Line 5 tunnel
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer put a stop work order on a project to build a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac for Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline.
Action Alert: Tell...
Fight for your right to repair
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- Published on Monday, 01 April 2019 10:04
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Paov,
Great news! Last month, an Ontario MPP tabled the first right to repair legislation in Canada. This bill would force companies to release repair manuals and sell spare parts for products they sell.1
...SEA Members Meeting and More April Events
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- Published on Sunday, 31 March 2019 20:58
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salmon farms
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- Published on Sunday, 31 March 2019 02:08
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We can protect wild salmon for good -- the push to ban fish farms is working, with phase-outs happening across the BC coast.
Sign today to finally ban open-net fish farms threatening wild salmon in BC.
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We could be on the brink of seeing the end of salmon farms in BC, with 17 farms banned at the end of last year. But there are still over 100 more open-net farms that are threatening wild salmon populations with parasites...
Fighting Ford: Ontarios New Healthcare Act
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- Published on Sunday, 31 March 2019 01:28
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1795 ... March 31, 2019
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Fighting Ford: Ontario’s New Healthcare Act
Natalie Mehra
It is called "The People’s Health Care Act." But the new healthcare omnibus bill, being rushed at breakneck speed through Ontario’s Legislature by Doug Ford’s majority caucus, does not reflect his promises to "the people" in the election. It does not open a single operating room (OR) to speed up surgical wait times, though lack of operating funds means that there are closed ORs in every major hospital in Ontario. It doesn’t add a single new nursing home space, nor one more nurse, health professional, or doctor. It doesn’t open any of the dozens of hospital wards, closed down as real-dollar funding has been tightened year after year. Yet Ontario has the fewest hospital beds left of...
Re. Bees: more damning news
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- Published on Saturday, 30 March 2019 06:42
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A, another day, another report linking the devastation of bee populations to dangerous pesticides. And yet Bayer and its chums are still determined to peddle their bee-killing wares.
But together, you and I are fighting back -- and we’re winning.
We’ll never have the deep pockets of corporate giants like Bayer. But when we all club together we have the resources we need to fight and to win. A, please can you make a small monthly gift today to save the bees from Bayer?
Yes - I’ll chip in to supercharge the campaign to save the bees at this critical time.
The weakest link
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- Published on Friday, 29 March 2019 11:58
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If one province is unprotected, we all are at risk
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