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- Published on Wednesday, 30 January 2019 11:24
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The science is clear: Canada needs to stop digging up new oil, coal and gas and move rapidly towards a 100 per cent renewable energy economy within the next two decades.
And yet Trudeau’s government keeps on snoozing the alarm issued by the world’s top climate scientists. That’s why in 2019, our team is turning to a bold and novel vision for climate action: a Green New Deal for Canada. What do you think about this vision? Fill out this survey to let us know.
The Green New Deal is a policy platform that’s rapidly gaining steam in the United States and it is perhaps the most straightforward policy proposal for tackling climate change that many of us have ever seen. It boils down...
Help us crash the Super Bowl
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 January 2019 07:12
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It’s crunch time for Doritos, and we need you to turn up the heat. Doritos’ parent company Pepsi is still in business with palm oil companies that exploit workers and destroy the rainforests where orangutans live.
You can expose the hot truth about Doritos before one of the biggest sporting events of the year: the Super Bowl -- and all you need to do it share this (pretty cool!) spoof video we made for the big game this Sunday.
THIS WORKS. Last time SumOfUs crashed the Super Bowl, members like you reached over 20 MILLION people, forcing Pepsi back to the negotiating table.
Click here to WATCH and SHARE our new...
The Political Economy of Half-Earth
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 January 2019 03:02
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1752 ... January 30, 2019
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The Political Economy of Half-Earth
Troy Vettese
That the "extermination, enslavement, and entombment of the aboriginal population in mines […and] the transformation of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black skin" was essential to capitalism’s emergence has long been recognized. Few, however, realise that capitalism has been changing the climate since its "rosy dawn."
An estimated sixty million indigenous people lived in the Americas in 1492, but by the mid-seventeenth century only six million remained due to genocide, epidemics, enslavement, and war. Over four centuries twelve million West Africans were sent along Middle Passage in shark-trailed ships, though only ten million survived the voyage. The ecological implications were equally dramatic. Millions of hectares of cropland were left fallow by New World...
A chink in the armour of Big Oil.
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:16
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ACTIVlist Update - January 29, 2019 - Rest in Power
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:16
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Rest in Power: Commemorating the 2nd Anniversary of the Quebec City Mosque Attack on January 29, 2017
Read more: ACTIVlist Update - January 29, 2019 - Rest in Power
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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On January 29, 2017, at 7:52pm, a young white man entered a mosque in Quebec City in Canada and over the course of a few minutes murdered six people.
Despite EU legal opinion, CETA still in play
Today, there was a major opinion which impacts whether the Canada-European trade agreement, the Canadian European Comprehensive Economic...
Performance for a fossil free Museumplein in the Netherlands. POWERFUL!
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:36
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In the Netherlands, a local group of artists has been staging powerful performances at cultural institutions to pressure them to break their ties with fossil fuel companies, namely, Shell. And they've been winning – following an amazing campaign consisting of six performances throughout 2017 and 2018, culminating in an art storm, the Van Gogh Museum ended its 18-year sponsorship with Shell, and two other museums in The Hague quickly followed. The group has announced that its next target will be The Concertgebouw (Concert hall). The Concertgebouw is the last cultural institution on Amsterdam's main museum square, the Museumplein, with a fossil fuel sponsorship. Watch and share their performance for a Fossil Free Museumplein.
Your cell phone bill is going up AGAIN
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:00
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Paov,
People in Canada already pay some of the highest cell phone bills in the world. Yet Bell, Rogers, and Virgin Mobile are jacking up their rates AGAIN.1
...BREAKING: Bee referendum
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:12
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Have you ever dreamed you could make a law to save the bees? Well, now you can.
In Germany’s biggest state Bavaria, a brave local initiative is just one step away from forcing a public vote on a law to save the bees. There’s only one thing missing: you.
Can you chip in CA$93 to get out the vote to save the bees?
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Breaking bee news from Germany! A brave group of local organisations and beekeepers is on the verge of getting a people’s vote to protect the bees from corporate pesticide giants.
Bayer -- a German company -- would be fuming if it lost such an important vote in its home...
Fifty Years Ago: The Birth of Black Power in Canada
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:08
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1751 ... January 29, 2019
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Fifty Years Ago: The Birth of Black Power in Canada
January 29, 1969: Montreal students occupy computer lab to protest campus racism
John Riddell
January 29 this year marks half a century since Black students at Sir George Williams University in Montreal led a bold occupation of the campus computer centre. Their two-week action marked the dramatic arrival in Canada of Black Power, a term used to describe the militant mass struggle for Black freedom that shook the United States during the 1960s.
The occupation also triggered sharp government repression: a violent police assault on February 11 that broke up the occupation, causing an estimated $2-million in damages to the computer centre. Criminal charges were then laid against activists while an extended Canada-wide and international...
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Unsolved murders of Indigenous women
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- Published on Monday, 28 January 2019 13:04
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Plastics Oceans
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- Published on Monday, 28 January 2019 13:00
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Corporations like Nestlé and Tim Horton’s are polluting our oceans with deadly plastics.
Tell Canada we need powerful anti-plastics laws to tackle the plastics crisis.
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Everyday, plastic trash from Nestlé, Tim Horton’s and McDonald’s are clogging Canadian waterways and washing up on our shores. Not only that, this plastic ends up in the ocean where it causes serious harm to marine animals: straws stuck up sea turtles nostrils, plastic debris starving seabirds and tiny micro-plastics entering the food chain.
If something isn’t done soon, by...
Overcoming Divisions Workshop March 24, 2019 12:30 - 5:30 pm
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- Published on Monday, 28 January 2019 09:14
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George Soros on China and Open Society
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- Published on Monday, 28 January 2019 07:20
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© Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty China, the world’s wealthiest and strongest authoritarian regime, is leveraging new technologies and investment to cement its global influence and control its populace. This makes the regime the most dangerous opponent of open societies, and it bolsters the other authoritarian regimes that are proliferating all over the world. Despite all of this, the Chinese people remain a source of hope for the country’s future, says our founder and chair George Soros at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
No U.S. and Canada Supported Coup in Venezuela!
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- Published on Sunday, 27 January 2019 02:14
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 26 January 2019
No U.S. and Canada Supported Coup in Venezuela!
Speak out against the ongoing coup attempt in Venezuela and the U.S. and Canadian government’s support!
The Trump and Trudeau governments have announced that they are recognizing a self-appointed opposition leader as President of Venezuela. Nicolas Maduro was elected President of Venezuela last year in free and fair elections.
This is an ongoing coup plot with serious consequences for peace and sovereignty around the world and deadly consequences for Venezuelans and their fight for self-determination and social justice in that country.
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No shelter in cold weather?
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- Published on Saturday, 26 January 2019 11:04
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Canadian Government Endorses Overthrow of Venezuela Government
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2019 18:28
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1749 ... January 26, 2019
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Canadian Government Endorses Overthrow of Venezuela Government
Socialist Project Steering Committee
During the last two days, both the U.S. and Canadian governments have encouraged overthrow of the democratically elected government of Venezuela by non-electoral means. The Socialist Project calls on these governments to cease their interference in Venezuela’s internal political process and to halt all sanctions against the country. The Canadian government can best aid the Venezuelan people through strict respect for Venezuela’s sovereignty and the Venezuelan people’s right to determine their own future.
We encourage participation in the action against a U.S.-orchestrated regime change to be held Saturday, January 26 at 2:30 p.m. at Spadina and Bloor, Toronto, and at other locations across Canada and Quebec. •
Includes statements by Common Frontiers,...
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Justin Trudeau
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2019 13:20
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We got some news. It's not good.
PAOV,
After we sent this email out to you earlier in the week, we received a letter from the National Energy Board that gave intervenors just 44 hours to submit comments on how the Trans Mountain Pipeline would affect the climate.
That’s less than two days for participants and their legal teams to respond to over 70 pages of climate science. Could it be that the NEB is trying to minimize the number of people pointing out how damaging this pipeline expansion would be for the climate?.
I’ve attached the email we sent to you earlier this week below.
A landmark legal victory for First Nations women in Canada. : in the news this week
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2019 13:18
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Earlier this month, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) wrapped up a case that resulted in a landmark legal victory for First Nations women in Canada.In a case brought forth by Sharon McIvor, the UNHRC found that Canada still discriminates against Indigenous women and their descendants in the registration provisions of the Indian Act.
Before amendments passed in 1985, First Nations women registered under the Indian Act lost their status after marrying a man without status. Their children were also denied Indian status under the act.
McIvor, whose First Nations’ grandmother had married a non-Indigenous man, found that following the 1985 amendments, she and her children were denied full status but her brother and his descendents were not.
McIvor filed her case with the UNHRC in 2010, when after proving her case at trial and on appeal in Canada, the federal government refused to eliminate sex discrimination from the Indian Act.
The UNHCR’s decision has given Canada 180 days to take steps to remove the discrimination.
Pamela Palmater writes that “Canada cannot claim to stand as a champion of human rights in the global context while continuing to deny First Nations women and children basic human rights.”
Read more: A landmark legal victory for First Nations women in Canada. : in the news this week
Dont pass this up.
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2019 13:14
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I don’t know about you, but I think we’ve made ourselves pretty
clear.
We’ve been talking a LOT about pharmacare. By now, you’d think the federal government has gotten the message.
Maybe it has, but we just can’t take anything for granted. Here’s our latest opportunity to speak up: a pre-budget survey asking us about our priorities.
https://www.budget.gc.ca/2019/prebudget-prebudgetaire/index-en.html#
One of the survey themes relates directly to health care. Imagine if thousands of pharmacare supporters wrote in? The government would have to make it a significant focus.
Take the survey now. It shouldn’t take longer than 5 minutes. We’re so close — and we need to make it impossible for the feds to ignore our message.
Brent Farrington
Canadian Labour Congress, the national voice of
Canada’s unions
Wet'suwet'en Strong Toolkit Released - Sovereign Likhts'amisyu Launched
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2019 13:08
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Wet'suwet'en Strong Supporter Toolkit Released
Sovereign Likhts'amisyu Launched
HEAL THE PEOPLE - DEFEND THE LAND
Release of Wet'suwet'en Strong Supporter Toolkit
https://unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit/
Inspired by the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs and Land Protectors, the Wet'suwet'en Strong Supporter Toolkit has been launched as a resource guide for supporters to take action and organize.
Read more: Wet'suwet'en Strong Toolkit Released - Sovereign Likhts'amisyu Launched
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