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ACTIVlist Update - December 4, 2018
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Notley's supply cuts should be the beginning of a just transition away from the oil sands
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On December 2nd, Rachel Notley announced her government will cut oil production by 325,000 barrels per day in early 2019. She cited the measure as a solution to Alberta’s oil price differential, which her government says is costing Alberta $80 million a day. (It is worth noting this number, from a Scotiabank report, has been called into...
Serious illness + income support
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 December 2018 13:04
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Justice for Hassan Diab
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 December 2018 08:48
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Justice for Hassan Diab
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...Iran: Stop jailing teachers now
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 December 2018 05:18
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Yellow Vest Protest Movement: Inequality and the Hollowness of the French Regime
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 December 2018 03:20
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1714 ... December 4, 2018
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Yellow Vest Protest Movement: Inequality and the Hollowness of the French Regime
Richard Greeman
Ignored by French President Emmanuel Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests (Mouvement des gilets jaunes) is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France.
In Paris, on the morning of Saturday December 1st, as thousands of self-organized Yellow Vest protestors attempted to gather to express their grievances on the Champs-Elysées at a planned, peaceful demonstration, French CRS riot police in Paris attacked them savagely with tear-gas, flash-bombs and water-canons. By the end of the day, cars were burning near the Arc de Triomphe, and all of Paris was in chaos as groups of...
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Newfoundland in crisis
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- Published on Monday, 03 December 2018 19:08
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Oil giant Husky just spilled 250,000 litres of oil directly into the ocean -- the largest spill in Newfoundland's history.
It’s time the federal government ends all offshore oil extraction into the Atlantic.
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Oil giant Husky finally fessed up to being responsible for the largest oil spill in Newfoundland's history.
Make no mistake about it, this was enormous -- we are talking about a 250,000 liter offshore oil spill.
To make matters worse, due to rough waters, the oil has broken up and spread, making it...
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
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- Published on Monday, 03 December 2018 15:38
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ACTIVlist Update - December 3, 2018
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- Published on Monday, 03 December 2018 11:46
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Husky spill in NL: Offshore petroleum boards prove themselves ill-equipped again
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On November 16th, Husky Energy spilled 250,000 litres of oil 350 km offshore Newfoundland and Labrador - the largest offshore oil spill in Canada’s history. The sea state conditions included 8.4m (28ft) waves, which made it not only impossible to get to the source of the leak (a subsea connector), but also impossible to contain the spill on the surface. Over two...
Alberta's cutting oil and gas production for the wrong reasons
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- Published on Monday, 03 December 2018 10:10
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Friends,
Last night, when Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced her plans to temporarily cut oil production in the province, she missed a golden opportunity.1 Instead of rationalizing this decision as a convoluted way to increase demand for Alberta oil in the long term, I wish Premier Notley could have told Albertans, and people all across Canada, the truth. She could have said that climate change is real and that the global market for tar sands oil is shrinking and, because of that, she would phase out fossil fuels, guarantee jobs for workers and make massive shifts to renewables. But, she didn’t, and that’s why we have to.
This Friday, Rachel Notley will be in Montreal with Justin Trudeau and the rest of Canada’s premiers. Add your name to the petition calling on them to support a Good Work Guarantee that would stop fossil fuel...
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The Climate Report that Trump Tried to Bury
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- Published on Monday, 03 December 2018 04:18
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1713 ... December 3, 2018
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The Climate Report that Trump Tried to Bury
Under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, composed of 13 agencies headed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reports every four years on "current trends in global change, both human-induced and natural, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years."
In an obvious attempt to keep it out of the news, the Trump administration released the most recent report – Volume 2 of the Fourth National Climate Assessment – at 2pm on the day after Thanksgiving.
The 1656-page report begins with a blunt statement that "Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result...
PAOV, Make your voice count
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- Published on Monday, 03 December 2018 03:18
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Stop Greed at Saskatoon Co-op
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- Published on Monday, 03 December 2018 02:00
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“Banning this advert is an injustice.
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- Published on Sunday, 02 December 2018 13:04
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Amazon Is the New Factory
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- Published on Saturday, 01 December 2018 23:00
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 24 October 2018
Amazon Is the New Factory:
Warehouse Labour in the Digital Economy
Between your Amazon home delivery and Jeff Bezos’ bottom line is a platform-based system that organizes a massive workforce, speeds up work, and contributes to making jobs more precarious and unstable. At this session of The Capitalism Workshop, Alessandro Delfanti discusses the changing nature of work, class composition, and the evolving relation between capitalism and technology, based upon his recent study of an Amazon warehouse in Italy.
Alessandro Delfanti teaches at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. He was one of the key organizers of Log Out! Worker Resistance Within and Against the Platform Economy.
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Solidarity with CUPW: Against the PC-Liberal Clampdown
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- Published on Saturday, 01 December 2018 14:24
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Solidarity with CUPW:
Against the PC-Liberal Clampdown
The Socialist Project expresses solidarity with the courageous actions across Canada in defence of the postal workers’ right to strike this morning.
We are proud that a number of our members participated in the pickets that shut down the Canada Post sorting facility in Mississauga.
These events remind us that rights are only won and preserved through working class struggles from below -- a lesson as important now as ever before, as the federal Liberal government joins with the hard right PC government in Ontario in attacking the right to strike by imposing back-to-work legislation. Indeed, the bipartisan clampdown on the right to strike has been exhibited by the Ontario Liberal Wynne government’s attack on provincial college workers, the Ford PC attack on York University workers, and now Trudeau and the federal Liberals attack on postal workers.
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Glyphosate
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- Published on Saturday, 01 December 2018 04:12
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A jury ruled that Monsanto's toxic weedkiller caused Dewayne Johnson’s terminal cancer. To avoid paying compensation and keep other glyphosate victims from coming forward, its parent company Bayer is appealing the case.
Tell Bayer to drop the appeal and pay Johnson the compensation he deserves!
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Dewayne Johnson made history this year when he sued Monsanto for causing his terminal cancer -- and won.
But Monsanto’s parent...
SUNDAY: Pro Rep Calls
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- Published on Friday, 30 November 2018 13:00
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SIGN UP
I can’t quite believe it. This Sunday is our last big day of action to bring proportional representation (Pro Rep) to BC.
ACTIVlist Update - November 30, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 30 November 2018 11:28
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The USMCA is signed. Now what?
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By the time the ink dried on the signing of the USMCA this morning by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, outgoing Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and U.S. President Donald Trump, it was already unraveling.
Chapters This Week
A large part of the Council of Canadians’ strength comes from our chapters working to build the kind of Canada we want. Here are a few recent highlights –...
Doug Ford's War on Ontario's Poor
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- Published on Friday, 30 November 2018 03:38
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1712 ... November 30, 2018
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Doug Ford’s War on Ontario’s Poor
John Clarke
Ontario’s recently elected Tory government, headed by right wing populist, Doug Ford, did not wait very long to incorporate into its reactionary agenda, an attack on the province’s social assistance system and those living in poverty. Though their election platform had been astoundingly sparse when it came to details and no warning was given of an intended war on the poor, in July, Ford’s Social Services Minister, Lisa MacLeod, announced that a hundred day review of the province’s social assistance system would be undertaken. To set the stamp on the Tory brand of ‘welfare reform’ MacLeod informed us that a scheduled increase of 3% in social assistance rates would be cut in half, that a series of...
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