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ACTIVlist Update - September 21, 2017
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Five things Trudeau should be thinking about re: the negotiation of NAFTA 2.0 ______________ MEDIA RELEASE: POLL: If NAFTA results in bad deal for Canadians and the environment, 76 per cent say walk away MEDIA RELEASE: Twelfth complaint filed against Samsung wind turbine project for water well interference in...
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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As the third round of NAFTA negotiations come to Ottawa this September 23-27, here are five things Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be thinking about.
This is the hurricane season scientists expected...and feared...
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- Published on Thursday, 21 September 2017 11:38
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EPA: Pull Monsantos crop-killing dicamba, now.
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- Published on Thursday, 21 September 2017 09:23
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Cancer-linked herbicide in BC
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- Published on Thursday, 21 September 2017 05:33
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Trending petition 
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UK Unions Call for Energy to be Returned to Public Ownership
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 23:58
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1485 .... September 21, 2017
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UK Unions Call for Energy to be Returned to Public Ownership
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
The annual congress of the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) has passed a historic composite resolution on climate change that supports the energy sector being returned to public ownership and democratic control.
The resolution -- carried unanimously -- calls upon the 5.7-million-member national federation to work with the Labour Party to achieve this goal, as well as to: implement a mass program for energy conservation and efficiency; lobby for the establishment of a "just transition" strategy for affected workers; and, investigate the long-term risks to pension funds from investments in fossil fuels.
The Labour Party’s 2017 election manifesto, For the Many, Not the Few, pointed to the...
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Extreme, secret, undemocratic
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:18
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Billionaire companies are trying to bully the Liberals into putting corporate profits before our rights in NAFTA negotiations this weekend in Ottawa. Help us fight back - send a message to the government calling for the removal of toxic corporate rights rules from NAFTA.
Dear PAOV,
In just a few days, negotiators from the U.S., Mexico and Canada will converge on Ottawa for a critical round of NAFTA negotiations where sources are saying things are really going to heat up. [1]
Corporate lobbyists are fighting tooth and nail to preserve dangerous and extreme rules in NAFTA called “Investor State Dispute Settlement” (ISDS). ISDS gives corporations the power to sue our government for laws that protect our environment and our health.[2]
Time is running out to influence this deal, and unless we speak up in a big way, lobbyists could bully the Liberals into putting corporate profits ahead of the public interest.[3-4]
Industry (Literally) Wrote B.C.'s Climate Plan
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 18:29
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Campaign wins reinstatement for dismissed union leader at Manila Peninsula Hotel
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 08:18
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This is an outrage
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 06:08
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Donate to RankandFile.ca to help us hire a new staff person
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 05:14
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First Nations and Ontario's Ring of Fire
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 03:54
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1484 .... September 20, 2017
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First Nations and Ontario's Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire continues to divide First Nations and suck up money that should go to healing communities.
Ontarians for a Just Accountable Mineral Strategy
Ontarians for a Just Accountable Mineral Strategy (OJAMS) condemns the Wynne government’s recent decision to begin road construction to the Ring of Fire mineral deposit in 2019 without obtaining the free, prior and informed consent of the Matawa First Nations. This decision is not only in violation of the constitutionally-recognized rights of Aboriginal peoples, but also the Ontario Government’s Regional Framework Agreement with the Matawa First Nations finalized in 2014.
The Ring of Fire is a large, crescent-shaped mineral deposit containing chromium, copper, zinc, nickel, platinum, vanadium and gold. It is located...
Exposing the Myth of “Gender Ideology”
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 September 2017 21:19
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© Raul Zamora/EPA/Redux It has become tempting in recent years to assume that the rights of women and LGBTI people are no longer up for debate. But the growth in Latin America of a political movement against “gender ideology”—which is unfavorably contrasted with “Christianity” and “tradition”—should finally put such wishful thinking to rest. If supporters of women and LGBTI people want to defend the progress that’s been made, they will have to familiarize themselves with the rhetoric of gender ideology before they’re able to rebut it. Because while gender ideology is a fiction, the threat it poses to the rights of women and LGBTI people is all too real.
ACTIVlist Update - September 19, 2017
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 September 2017 21:00
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WIN! SWN Resources drops lawsuit against Kent County chapter activist Ann Pohl Cut off Big Oil: Desjardins needs a Permanent Ban on Financing Oil Pipelines ________________ TAKE ACTION: Tell Desjardins to permanently ban the financing of oil pipelines
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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Houston-based SWN Resources has dropped its lawsuit against Harcourt, New Brunswick-based Kent County chapter activist Ann Pohl.
This past July Desjardins announced a moratorium investment in, and financing of oil pipeline.
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Near-death experience in sport
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 September 2017 05:01
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ACTIVlist Update - September 18, 2017
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- Published on Monday, 18 September 2017 21:00
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The Council of Canadians supports fair taxation, an end to 'income sprinkling' for the wealthy Water grabs and the displacement of the Rohingya from Rakhine state in Myanmar
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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Changes to the tax system proposed by the Liberal government on July 18 are expected to be hotly debated when Parliament resumes sitting this week.
In late-2016, Reuters reported on "the systematic confiscation of land [in Myanmar] from farmers by the army and the placing...
Jam-packed week of eco-socialist causes coming up!
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- Published on Monday, 18 September 2017 14:45
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Join the CYCC for a conversation about the youth climate justice movement
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- Published on Monday, 18 September 2017 10:56
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Workers' Comp is a Right!
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- Published on Sunday, 17 September 2017 23:24
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1483 .... September 18, 2017
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Workers’ Comp is a Right!
Aidan Macdonald and Heidi MacFarland
For years now, injured workers and frontline advocates have been sounding the alarm that Ontario’s Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) has been "getting its financial house in order" through austerity and cost-cutting measures. Whether it be from slashing compensation for lost wages, denying healthcare treatment and medication, or refusing to recognize mental health injuries, the cuts have come squarely on the backs of injured workers.
But resilient and strong in the face of injustice, injured workers across the province are rising up. The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups (ONIWG) -- an umbrella organization of injured worker groups throughout Ontario -- is launching a province-wide campaign called Workers’ Comp is a Right, to...
Indigenous Land Defense
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- Published on Saturday, 16 September 2017 06:30
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New Beginnings and Opportunities
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- Published on Friday, 15 September 2017 17:35
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BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
Dear friends,As summer draws to a close, and teachers and students are heading back to school,...
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