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your Loblaws gift card
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- Published on Wednesday, 28 March 2018 08:07
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For 14 years, Loblaws fixed the price of bread and ripped off Canadians. Its secret is out and is hoping a $25 gift card will fix everything. But it is making Canadians submit sensitive personal information just to access their gift card.
This is the last straw. Tell Loblaw's CEO to stop demanding personal information and give a fair payback to Canadians.
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For years, Loblaws fixed the price of bread, a staple food for many Canadian families. When its secret got out it offered a limited amount of $25 gift cards to try to gloss over this massive PR nightmare. But now that...
That was big!
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- Published on Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:51
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This is what people power looks like. On Friday, the Leadnow community joined forces with 350.org and dozens of local groups to pull off over 60 snap actions across the country, in support of the Indigenous-led resistance to the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
Thousands gathered at MP offices coast to coast, and then went inside to deliver water collected along the BC coastline, to highlight the risk of oil spills.
Thousands more joined in on social media to amplify our message and took to the phones to give MPs the message directly.
Your Day of Action made headlines, with dozens of local news stories, and national coverage from the CBC and the Canadian Press. [1,2]
ACTIVlist Update - March 27, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:31
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Council of Canadians chapters promote water justice for World Water Day I just came from Parliament Hill...
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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Last week, nearly 30 Council of Canadians chapters organized events from coast to coast to coast to promote water justice in Indigenous communities as well as in their communities.
I have just come back from a press conference on Parliament Hill and I am outraged.
48 hours left to stop website blocking
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- Published on Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:57
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Paov,
The next 48 hours could shape the future of the Internet in Canada for generations to come.
That’s how long is left to say no to Bell’s reckless attempt to censor our Internet by implementing a website blocking system.
Bell’s proposal to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) could open the floodgates to widespread Internet censorship.1 If we don’t speak out now, the proposal will give Big Telecom the power to censor what you see online — without...
Bells finally done it
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- Published on Tuesday, 27 March 2018 07:09
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Time is running out to protect net neutrality in Canada and stop Bell's dangerous plan to censor the internet. We have just four days to get comments in to the CRTC and let them know that Canadians want a free and open internet, not one controlled by a handful of unaccountable corporations.
Will you help us flood the CRTC with comments and protect free and open internet in Canada?
Thanks for all you do,Emma and the SumOfUs team
Bell’s finally put forward its plan to end net neutrality in Canada.
Tell the CRTC to reject this dangerous plan and protect free and open internet.
Merger from hell just approved
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- Published on Monday, 26 March 2018 07:38
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A New Strategy for Higher Education
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- Published on Sunday, 25 March 2018 23:35
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1576 ... March 26, 2018
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A New Strategy for Higher Education
Hugo Radice
In the British Labour Party’s 2017 election manifesto, the pledges to abolish university tuition fees and reintroduce maintenance grants were widely seen as vote winners, but that was the extent of the party’s policy commitments toward the sector. Since the election, Labour has supported staff and students in challenging the yawning gap between highly-paid vice-chancellors and principals on the one hand, and part-time academic staff whose work is extremely insecure and poorly paid; and it has supported the industrial action that academic and administrative staff in UCU have taken in defence of their pension rights.
Important though these issues are, Labour’s policies need to be based on a much more comprehensive analysis of the problems in...
UPDATE:Only weeks to win a breakthrough in PEI!
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- Published on Sunday, 25 March 2018 13:58
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UPDATE: The PEI Coalition for PR volunteer team is meeting tomorrow - when we'll be able to tell them how far we have to go to raise the funds needed to hire a Campaign Organizer for the
referendum. Sources now tell us that the referendum could be held as soon as eight weeks from now!
Marielle Franco Is Still with Us
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- Published on Sunday, 25 March 2018 13:52
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© Mídia NINJA Earlier this month, Marielle Franco, a strident defender of Rio de Janeiro’s marginalized communities, and one of the few black and female politicians in Brazil, was murdered. It was a tragic end to an inspiring career. Franco came from one of Rio’s largest favelas, and in 2016 she launched an “outsider” campaign that took her all the way to the city’s municipal chamber. She was a fearless critic of police brutality and racial profiling, and she was a tireless campaigner for the empowerment of black women. Franco’s murderers remain at large, but the global expression of solidarity which followed news of her death has already revealed their failure. Marielle may be gone, but her example, and the vision of the future for which she fought, are here to stay.
Voices
Rights & Justice
How Do We Measure Access to Justice? A Global Survey of Legal Needs Shows the Way
The World Justice Project’s new survey, Global Insights on Access to Justice, is the first of its kind to try to understand global access to civil, rather than criminal, justice.
Fight For $15: The Challenges Ahead
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- Published on Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:34
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 28 February 2018
Fight For $15: The Challenges Ahead
After nearly three years of organizing, protesting, striking, and lobbying, the Fight for $15 and Fairness secured a huge victory with the passage of Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, on November 22, 2017.
Bill 148 implements the quickest timeline to a $15 minimum wage in North America. It also ushers in a host of other labour law reforms such as expanded emergency leave days, paid leave days, elimination of doctors’ notes, fair scheduling provisions, equal pay for equal work, and card-check and successor rights in certain sectors.
However, these gains are not set in stone, and several employers and their right-wing sympathizers have already mounted an attack in order to reverse this major achievement.
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CRTC failed. Over to you, Minister Bains
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- Published on Friday, 23 March 2018 16:44
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Paov,
Yesterday, our federal regulator turned down a huge opportunity to lower your cell phone bill.1
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) rejected a proposal to create more competition in our wireless markets.2 It was a big win for the Big Three, and yet another loss for everyday Canadians.
Now, it’s time to turn to the federal government to step in. Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has said that the high prices Canadians face for mobile service is “unacceptable.”3
TELL...
ACTIVlist Update - March 23, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 23 March 2018 13:56
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WIN! Berlin becomes a blue community! Chapters this Week!
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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Berlin's House of Representatives (state parliament) has voted for the city-state of 3.7 million people to become a blue community!
Here's a snapshot of recent and upcoming chapter actions across the country.
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TAKE ACTION!
Writing a Letter to the Editor in your local paper is an easy and effective way to make a difference in your community.
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Merger from hell just approved
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- Published on Friday, 23 March 2018 05:10
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 23 March 2018 04:00
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Workers Need an Industrial Policy Not Tariffs
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- Published on Thursday, 22 March 2018 23:37
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1575 ... March 23, 2018
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Workers Need an Industrial Policy Not Tariffs
UE General Executive Board
President Trump’s recent announcement that he intends to impose a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum is not a new or effective strategy for reviving American manufacturing. George W. Bush imposed tariffs on steel in 2002 and quietly removed them after only 18 months. Protectionist measures in a capitalist economy of global "free" trade are not adequate tools for building a sustainable U.S. infrastructure and improving the lives of workers.
What American workers need is not partial half-measures, but a trade and industrial policy that is based on international cooperation, respect for workers’ rights, and environmental sustainability – one that raises living standards for workers across industries and across...
Tomorrows Defend the Water Day of Action & Pints for the People
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- Published on Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:56
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This Small Alberta Town is Eyeing Geothermal
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- Published on Thursday, 22 March 2018 12:42
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ACTIVlist Update - March 22, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 22 March 2018 12:27
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Your love for water World Water Day: Brazilian and global water justice activists march to demand an end to the privatization of water
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Do you have 2 minutes to show your love for water?
The Fórum Alternativo Mundial da Água (FAMA) or Alternative World Water Forum concluded with a march today that saw 5-7,000 people from around Brasil and around the World take to the streets of Brasilia demanding an end to the...
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