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- Published on Thursday, 22 March 2018 12:00
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Monsanto merger stalls: Keep the pressure on DoJ!
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- Published on Thursday, 22 March 2018 09:38
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Elections in Russia, 2018: Managed Democracy?
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 March 2018 23:21
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1574 ... March 22, 2018
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Elections in Russia, 2018: Managed Democracy?
David Mandel
This article examines the bases of popular support for recently re-elected Russian president Vladimir Putin. Although this support is strenuously "cultivated" by the regime by various illicit means, it nevertheless has a genuine basis that needs to be understood by people on the left who are trying to develop an enlightened position in the escalating confrontation between the "West" and Russia.
Putin's speeches during his brief electoral campaign did not point to any major changes in domestic and foreign policies. In the international realm, one can expect the continued degradation of relations with the "West," for which the West is largely responsible. One can also suppose that there will be a significant effort made to prepare...
Ethical government lawsuits can be won with your help!
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:08
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Dear Friend,
We hope all is well and thank you for your ongoing support of Democracy Watch’s campaigns to make Canada the world’s leading democracy!
Unfortunately, despite the support of people like you sending more than 170,000 messages to federal party leaders and MPs here, the federal government continues to use secretive, partisan processes...
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WHOA - over 100K comments on Bell's censorship plan!
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 March 2018 16:55
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What an extraordinary result, Paov!
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ACTIVlist Update - March 21, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:38
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Day 1 of tour highlights risks of offshore drilling, in Halifax What might be the endgame in NAFTA talks next month?
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We kicked off our coastal tour yesterday in Halifax with two meaningful meetings and a successful town hall.
The Globe and Mail reports, "The Trump administration has dropped a contentious demand that all vehicles made in Canada and Mexico for export to the United States contain at least 50 per...
ACTIVlist Update - March 20, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 March 2018 12:50
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Coastal tour highlights risks of BP's plans to offshore drill Nova Scotia MPs seek to put travel ban law against human rights violators on G7 summit agenda
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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Today kicks off the start of a 3 day, hard hitting coastal tour on the risks of offshore drilling Nova Scotia.
A group of Liberal MPs as well as an all-party group of MPs are asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to put Magnitsky-style laws on the...
Kicking Nestlé out of Ontario
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 March 2018 09:34
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The Ontario election is fast approaching -- giving us a critical opportunity to finally kick Nestlé out of Ontario for good.
We’ve retained a polling firm to commission a critical poll of Ontario voters that leaders won’t be able to ignore -- but we need to raise $5,000 to reach even more voters. Will you chip in to make it happen?
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 March 2018 06:13
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Workers Across Canada Are Looking for Your Solidarity
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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Not our national interest.
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- Published on Monday, 19 March 2018 15:24
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Dear Friend,
On Saturday, I was arrested for standing up to protect the land, water, and climate. I was arrested resisting the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline -- a project that Justin Trudeau claims is in Canada’s national interest. Let’s show him that resistance to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project stretches all across the country.
This Friday, on March 23rd, we are inviting people across the country to deliver water collected from the coast of BC to Liberal MP offices across the country along with a call to #DefendtheWater from Kinder Morgan. Click here to find an event close to you!
I took action this weekend on Burnaby Mountain...
Radio stations are catching on
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- Published on Monday, 19 March 2018 14:29
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Paov,
Time is running out. It's been almost two months since Bell first asked the CRTC to consider creating a censorship agency in Canada and the public consultation on this closes in just a few weeks.
But we have good news! After we broke the news that radio stations were refusing to run our ads educating Canadians about Bell's censorship scheme, it went viral! Since then we've had two independent broadcasters come forward saying they are willing to air our...
Nominate someone with courage today!
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- Published on Monday, 19 March 2018 12:45
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ACTIVlist Update -March 19, 2018
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- Published on Monday, 19 March 2018 12:17
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Speculation intensifies that a NAFTA 2.0 deal may (or may not) be reached in the coming weeks NAFTA deal could come as early as April
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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The Canadian Press reports there may be reason to believe a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could be reached in the coming weeks. The 1st round of NAFTA talks took place August 16-20, 2017.
As you know, renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
Keeping Power With the People: Puerto Ricos Energy Future
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- Published on Sunday, 18 March 2018 23:20
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Keeping Power With the People: Puerto Rico’s Energy Future
Sean Sweeney
Puerto Rico is now at the center of the global debate about climate resiliency, the potential of renewable energy technologies, and the best way to transition away from fossil fuels. To some extent, it has compressed the struggle for the world’s energy future both geographically and temporally. The whole system was shut down by an "extreme weather event" in the form of hurricane Maria that hit the island on September 16, 2017. This scale of disruption has never happened before -- not in Puerto Rico, not in the United States, and not anywhere in the modern world. What was once a discussion about the future of energy has now been transplanted firmly into the...
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Sockeye salmon
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- Published on Sunday, 18 March 2018 06:34
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The world’s largest sockeye salmon run is at risk from a massive open-pit copper mine proposal.
We can stop it by calling on the newest potential investor, First Quantum, keep its money out of the project.
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The Pebble Mine is a massive open-pit copper and gold mining project that threatens the largest sockeye salmon run in the world, in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
The good news is that we could be on the brink of stopping it once and for all. Over the last four years the project has been coming closer and closer to being scrapped. Investors have pulled out and Trump’s administration recently...
Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
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- Published on Saturday, 17 March 2018 23:14
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Revolutionary Optimism:
Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay.
Part 1: The Radical Ferment of Winnipeg’s Jewish Socialist Politics
Prof. Leo Panitch talks about the political culture of his family, shaped in Winnipeg’s radical Jewish community before and after World War Two; Labour Zionists, Social Democrats and Communists debated and organized within the Jewish working class movement.
Part 2: "I Think I’m a Marxist"
Panitch says as he became politically active, he concluded that neither the bureaucratic socialism in the Soviet Union or Canadian social-democracy would democratize the economy or the state.
Part 3: The Rise of Jeremy Corbyn and Class Struggle in the UK Labour Party
Panitch talks about...
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