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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 02 February 2018 03:00
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ACTIVlist Update - February 1, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 01 February 2018 20:39
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Take action now to help Bill C-262 pass second reading on February 7! ________________ PETITION: Tell Trudeau to drop Chapter 11 in NAFTA! PETITION: Tell Trudeau to release the text of his "comprehensive and progressive" TPP!
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 Council of Canadians fully supports Romeo Saganash's private members bill C-262, An Act to ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
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It's time to celebrate!
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- Published on Thursday, 01 February 2018 11:30
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Canada: The labour movement splits
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- Published on Thursday, 01 February 2018 09:29
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Site C Dam Eyed to Power Yukons Mining Boom
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- Published on Thursday, 01 February 2018 09:00
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Plastic oceans
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- Published on Thursday, 01 February 2018 06:04
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Canadians throw out around 57 million straws everyday, polluting the oceans with tonnes of plastic.
It’s time A&W did the right thing and banned plastic straws in its restaurants.
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A&W uses tens of millions of straws every year. These single-use bits of plastic are the sixth most discarded piece of garbage in the world. It’s no wonder most of them end up in the ocean where they can get wedged up the nose of a sea turtle or ingested by a sea bird.
A&W is one of the biggest fast food chains in Canada. If we can get A&W onboard, it will prevent billions...
Cindy Crawford
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- Published on Thursday, 01 February 2018 05:26
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WOW! More than 200,000 views in a few days only!
Our Pepsi parody ad is already making the rounds on social media and we have 5 more days until Pepsi's Super Bowl greenwashing moment.
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Pepsi’s bringing back that steamy Cindy Crawford ad for the Super Bowl next week. Old school soda machine, 90’s supermodel Cindy Crawford, retro music and drinks, this ad will show it all… well almost. One thing you won’t see in Pepsi’s Super Bowl ad is the company’s old school stance on palm oil and its ties to rainforest destruction and labor abuses. We have a solution for that -- our very own retro ad! To crash Pepsi’s Super Bowl party, we’re...Afrin and the Rojava Revolution
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:17
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1551 ... February 1, 2018
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Afrin and the Rojava Revolution
Marcel Cartier
The dark clouds of 21st-century fascism are once again hanging over the heads of the people of northern Syria. As if the inhabitants of the region often referred to as Rojava haven’t suffered enough over the course of the past seven years of war, the Turkish state has come to the conclusion that the time is ripe to pick up the fallen, bloodied sword from the corpse that is Islamic State. Together with Salafist mercenaries carrying flags of the Syrian ‘rebels’ – one of the many components of what at one historical juncture seemingly all so long ago was a cohesive ‘Free Syrian Army’ – Erdogan’s regime vows a ‘swift operation’ to destroy ‘terrorism’ in Afrin.
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CoDev January 2018 E-Bulletin
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:59
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Join The PeerNetBC Team
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:45
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Join the PeerNetBC Team
PeerNetBC is very excited to be hiring for 2 positions, a Community Developer and the Co-Executive Director/Community Developer joint position.
Both positions have a closing date of February 4th 2017 at 11:59 pm. Please note different email contacts for each position.
For more details, please see individualized job postings linked here for Co-Executive Director/Community Developer and Community Developer
Position 1 - Co-Executive Director/Community Developer
PeerNetBC is looking for a Co-Executive Director & Community Developer. This exciting role splits its time between Co-Executive and Community Developer.
Start date: March 1 2018.
Winter 2018 issue of Quaker Concern - the push for Indigenous rights legislation
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:00
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The Winter 2018 issue of our newsletter Quaker Concern is here with four full articles and other short news updates!
Jennifer Preston speaking at the UN Declaration symposium in Gatineau, Quebec. Photo credit: Kenneth Deer.Advancing Legislation on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Read more: Winter 2018 issue of Quaker Concern - the push for Indigenous rights legislation
UPDATE! Press Conference Thursday - your response to the pledge has been amazing!
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:02
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UPDATE: Over the past three days, your response to our 2019 Vote Pledge has been amazing! 
Over 2700 of you have signed the Vote Pledge so far - promising to vote for parties and candidates who actions we can trust on PR.
Our press conference with Nathan Cullen and Elizabeth May will be in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill at 1 PM EST on Thursday February 1 - the one year anniversary of Justin Trudeau's broken promise.
Read more: UPDATE! Press Conference Thursday - your response to the pledge has been amazing!
ACTIVlist Update - January 31, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:36
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British groups mobilize against Trump's planned visit to the UK later this year Trudeau's push to "modernize" NAFTA's energy chapter would worsen the climate crisis
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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US Donald Trump's planned visit to the United Kingdom later this year is sparking a mass mobilization against his racist and misogynist views.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's special envoy on NAFTA talked up the 'free trade' deal in Washington yesterday.
5,278 of us have demanded Esmail Abdi's release from prison - will you join us?
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:02
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Read more: 5,278 of us have demanded Esmail Abdi's release from prison - will you join us?
ACTIVlist Update - January 30, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:05
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Pancakes not Pipelines #stopKM Terminal Construction for a Day Should we feel optimistic about the NAFTA talks or deepen our resistance to neo-liberalism?
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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Early in the morning January 29 close to 100 people joined an action serving blueberry pancakes outside the Westridge Marine Terminal undergoing construction to accommodate the hotly contested 890,000 barrel per day Kinder Morgan pipeline.
Mainstream media reports are suggesting we should feel cautiously optimistic about the 6th round of...
Dont Let a Union Split Tear the Labour Movement Apart
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:04
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1550 ... January 30, 2018
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Don’t Let a Union Split Tear the Labour Movement Apart
Jonathan Rosenblum
Dear Canadian union sisters and brothers:
There’s a lot to admire about your labour movement.
With community organizing, creative street heat, and militant strikes, you’ve just scored the biggest win yet in the Fight for $15, forcing a pro-corporate Ontario government to raise wages for 1.7 million workers and grant new card-check union recognition rights, paid sick leave, scheduling rights, and equal pay for temporary and part-time workers. That’s inspiring! Last year’s organizing victory of 1,000 casino workers in Vancouver stands as another glowing example of grassroots power-building. And hardly a season goes by when we don’t hear about yet another militant strike by construction workers, daycare workers, and others in...
Read more: Dont Let a Union Split Tear the Labour Movement Apart
BC blocks new tar sands shipments.
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:50
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The government of British Columbia just delivered a huge blow to the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Today, they announced regulation that would temporarily prohibit new tar sands shipments on the West Coast while the government assesses the risk these exports pose to land, water and communities. If the risk is too great, BC will move to make this regulation permanent.
We already know that First Nations, municipalities and people all across BC vehemently oppose this pipeline and now the province has made its position clear as well. It’s time for Prime Minister Trudeau to do what’s right. Join us in calling the Prime Minister’s office to tell Trudeau to stand up to Big Oil and respect the people of BC by supporting this decision from the provincial government.
This could be the end of the line for Kinder Morgan, but we know that right now...
The threats of national security Bill C-59
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- Published on Monday, 29 January 2018 17:00
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