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You're invited to stand with Beaver Lake Cree Nation
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- Published on Saturday, 16 February 2019 04:46
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Cracker Barrel cheese
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- Published on Saturday, 16 February 2019 04:10
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Food processors like Saputo and McCains are responsible for the most food waste in Canada.
It’s time these food giants to clean up their act and sign the food waste pledge.
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Canada wastes so much food that you might as well throw a quarter of your groceries away when you leave the supermarket. By far the worst culprits aren’t ordinary shoppers like us, but huge food processors like McCain’s and Saputo, the dairy giant behind Cracker Barrel and Neilson milk.
Their wasteful practices mean that...
What a Teachers Movement Can Look Like
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- Published on Saturday, 16 February 2019 01:48
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1764 ... February 16, 2019
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What a Teachers’ Movement Can Look Like
Lois Weiner
The victory Los Angeles teachers and their union, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), won in their contract fight with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has the potential to change the world, as the Chicago Teachers Union did in its landmark 2012 strike. Their path-breaking struggles are reverberating in the latest wave of walkouts and strike votes spreading across the nation’s school systems -- and the school year is barely half-over.
Los Angeles teachers rode the tide created by the teacher walkouts in "red states," which taught labour the power of direct action to win demands from the GOP’s elected handmaidens to wealthy elites. By consciously using community organizing and reinvigorating the union’s internal...
'Progressive' Trudeau Government Attacks Venezuela
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- Published on Friday, 15 February 2019 04:44
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1763 ... February 15, 2019
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‘Progressive’ Trudeau Government Attacks Venezuela
John Clarke
Anyone who still entertains any illusions in the ‘progressive’ nature of the Trudeau Government of Canada, would have been shocked to witness the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, assembling a collection of regional representatives of the Washington Consensus in Ottawa, on February 4, to further the coup plot against Venezuela. The so called Lima Group that she brought together dutifully issued a statement calling for the “national armed forces of Venezuela to demonstrate their loyalty to the interim president in his constitutional functions as their commander in chief.”
Despite the progressive pretensions of the Liberal Government in Ottawa and the ill deserved reputation that Canada has for ‘peacekeeping’ and for being a moderating influence in international...
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 15 February 2019 02:10
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South Korean workers win huge victory - thanks in part to you
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- Published on Friday, 15 February 2019 00:18
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ACTIVlist Update - February 14, 2019: No Love for Nestlé this Valentine's Day
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- Published on Thursday, 14 February 2019 11:22
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No Love for Nestlé this Valentine's Day
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A 100% renewable SK is 100% possible
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently told us we need to do more – quickly – on climate change, but our provincial government is trying to get away with doing even less.
Minnesota governor to renew appeal to stop Enbridge’s Line 3
Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline just...
bees
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- Published on Thursday, 14 February 2019 09:06
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Bees are dying and we need to fast track the solution save the bees in Canada.
Call on the federal government to pass to ban neonics by the end of 2019.
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Bees are dying -- and all the evidence is pointing towards toxic neonic pesticides as being the main culprit for the death of these vital creatures.
Because of the support of over 200,000 SumOfUs members like you, we got Health Canada to ban neonics, but it won’t take effect for 3 to...
The North's energy conundrum
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- Published on Thursday, 14 February 2019 07:08
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Mexicos Energy Transformation?
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- Published on Thursday, 14 February 2019 02:42
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1762 ... February 14, 2019
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Mexico’s Energy Transformation?
James Neimeister
When fuel prices shot up dramatically two years ago, ordinary Mexicans took to the streets. The gasolinazo, as the abrupt surge in prices was called, was a gut-punch to Mexicans’ strained finances, triggering blockades, occupations, and ransacking at gas stations across the country. A year and a half later, in July 2018, voters rejected the right-wing PRI and PAN parties behind Mexico’s energy reforms, electing Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a storied figure on the Mexican left.
Despite the central importance of energy policy to his election, there has been relatively little discussion of what a López Obrador government might mean in terms of climate policy. López Obrador (also known by his initials: AMLO) ran on a hodgepodge of environmental...
A new Internet Tax
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- Published on Wednesday, 13 February 2019 09:22
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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the CBC are pushing for an Internet Tax as part of the...
What Colour is Your Vest?
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- Published on Wednesday, 13 February 2019 04:02
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1761 ... February 13, 2019
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What Colour is Your Vest?
The Gilets Jaunes Revolt Shaking France
Stefan Kipfer and Karen Wirsig
In 1934, the political situation in France was tense and uncertain. The year began with a mobilization of royalist and fascist militias (on February 6) that were followed immediately (on February 9 and 12) by a response from the Communist and Socialist wings of the workers movement. As Norbert Guterman and Henri Lefebvre reported, "all these men are ready for the concrete liberation a revolution would bring -- and perhaps also, unfortunately, the mystique and brutal mythology of the fascists" (1999 [1936], 143, trans. SK). When these lines were written in the mid-1930s, France was experiencing a rising tide of grassroots anti-fascist politics culminating in the strike waves of...
SAVE THE SOOKE HILLS! Urgent Calls to Action
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:28
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Drop charges against trade union leaders - stop repression now
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2019 04:42
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The Secret behind McDonalds Happy Meals
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:14
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McDonald’s has a foul secret: chickens reared for the fast food giant go through unthinkable suffering in their short lives. Thousands of concerned members like you have donated to expose the McDonald’s chicken scandal with powerful newspaper adverts. Will you join them?
Please, chip in to expose the dirty secret behind McDonald’s chicken wings.
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Baby chickens used by McDonald’s suffer unimaginable cruelty during their short lives.
We're getting ready to expose this real-life horror movie to McDonald's customers. We need your help to fund devastating newspaper ads -- will you please chip in?
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Conversion: Alternatives for the GM Shutdown
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:24
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1760 ... February 12, 2019
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Conversion: Alternatives for the GM Shutdown
Peter Stoett and Scott Acquanno
GM’s announcement that it will halt production at its award-winning assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario was hardly a surprise, though it still managed to stun the federal and Ontario governments. This was not the first time large-scale layoffs affected the GM workforce in Oshawa. Many former workers have completely dropped out of the labour market while others have re-entered the workforce in lower paying, less standardized or non-unionized service sector jobs after the retraining programs promised to them proved insufficient and underfunded.
Some felt betrayed by a company that had received generous assistance from the Canadian government in the past. Many observers saw it as an inevitable, if painful, symptom of a long-term...
ACTIVlist Update - February 11, 2019
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- Published on Monday, 11 February 2019 11:28
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#PowerShift: Youth to gather for climate justice this week in Ottawa
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The Council of Canadians is proud to help sponsor PowerShift Young and Rising, a climate justice convergence organized by youth, for youth in Ottawa February 14 to 18.
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A Short Guide for Canadian Anti-Imperialists on the Current Crisis in Venezuela
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- Published on Sunday, 10 February 2019 23:04
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1759 ... February 11, 2019
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A Short Guide for Canadian Anti-Imperialists on the Current Crisis in Venezuela
Laura Avalos and Susan Spronk
With the Lima Group meeting in Ottawa, on February 4 the news of the crisis in Venezuela has hit Canadian headlines. This short guide intends to provide some key talking points for progressives who might not be ready to comment on what is happening in Venezuela, but are critical of the interventionist stance of the Canadian government.
1) Canada should not follow the USA’s foreign policy position on Venezuela, particularly given its history of self-interested interference in the region.
Trump has appointed controversial U.S. diplomat Elliott Abrams as special envoy for Venezuela. Abrams was convicted for misleading Congress in Iran-Contra affair, and was linked to the...
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