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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Saturday, 13 May 2017 06:15
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ACTIVlist Update - May 12, 2017
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- Published on Friday, 12 May 2017 14:15
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WIN! Northumberland chapter celebrates Town of Cobourg vote in support of the right to a healthy environment Time for Ontario to protect its water supplies
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The Council of Canadians Northumberland chapter is celebrating that the Town of Cobourg's Committee of the Whole has recommended that staff develop a municipal declaration recognizing the right to clean water, fresh air and healthy food.
New Ontario guidelines regarding commercial water-bottling permits do not address the problems...
New Post: Accident at Hanford
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- Published on Friday, 12 May 2017 13:00
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Accident at Hanford
Above: Photo showing the 20ft x 20ft hole which resulted from the collapse of a PUREX storage tunnel at Hanford (Image: Hanford Emergency Information page)
News wires have been buzzing about a tunnel cave-in at the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington State. The Hanford facility is extremely large, 580-square miles, or about half the size of the state of Rhode Island. It produced the plutonium used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and during the cold war facilities were greatly expanded for weapons production. The last reactor at Hanford was shut down in 1987, and decommissioning and cleanup operations have been ongoing since 1989. The site has been fraught with problems stemming from the storage of radioactive waste, and because of the risk of releases of radioactive material to the environment, particularly the nearby Columbia River, it is closely watched by environmental groups.
Map showing location and size of the Hanford plant, including its proximity to the Columbia River (Image: Hanford Emergency Information page)
The accident yesterday involved the collapse of a small (20 x 20 foot) section of a storage tunnel built as part of the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Facility (PUREX), detected by workers on the morning of May 9th. These tunnels, constructed in the 1950’s and 1960’s, hold rail cars loaded with contaminated discarded equipment. They were constructed of wood and concrete and covered with approximately 8 feet of soil. The collapse is probably due to the degradation of wood used in construction.
Free screening - Daughter of the Lake
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- Published on Friday, 12 May 2017 11:45
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Do you follow us on social media?
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- Published on Friday, 12 May 2017 10:30
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Dear PAOV,
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Please be a part of our growing online community if you're not already. We can’t wait to connect with you!
Thank you for everything you do for animals,
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Art Vs Alt
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- Published on Friday, 12 May 2017 08:30
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Art vs Alt
Art vs Alt is a day of conversations and a platform for presentations of work by concerned artists, a day to come together to work out how to collectively confront the dramatic rise of the right.
When: Saturday May 27th, 10am - 5pm
Where: Steelworkers' Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Toronto
Culture has always been a major part of the left, and for the present it may be our most important intervention strategy. Let’s move it forward. Let’s ask what we should be doing.
The conference is open to anyone interested in the culture and politics of the left. Discussions and plenaries on subjects chosen by participants will be held throughout the day. Artists are also invited to give a 3-minute presentation of their work during four half-hour segments scheduled throughout the afternoon. Come and participate in the presentations and the conversation.
ACTIVlist Update - May 11, 2017
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- Published on Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:15
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Council of Canadians asks Catherine McKenna to remove the name 'Amherst' from historic site Nova Scotia election - our top questions
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Prince Edward Island-based Council of Canadians vice-chair Leo Broderick has sent a second letter to Catherine McKenna, the federal minister responsible for Parks Canada, to ask her to remove the name 'Amherst' from an historic site near Charlottetown.
Nova Scotia heads to the polls on May 30! We wrote these questions to help...
Urgent Action: Sweatshop Workers Fired in Honduras
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- Published on Thursday, 11 May 2017 11:45
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B.C. Liberal Minority Government? Not So Fast
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- Published on Thursday, 11 May 2017 09:15
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The Corruption of a Dream
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 23:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1413 .... May 11, 2017
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The Corruption of a Dream
Oupa Lehulere
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
--- Honoré de Balzac
The SASSA scandal currently unfolding is probably the most dramatic expression of how far the African National Congress (ANC) has traveled since its days of opposition to apartheid. [SASSA stands for South Africa Social Security Agency, which is the agency that pays social grants to about 17 million beneficiaries.] Under apartheid, ANC activists were associated with laying down their lives in defending and advancing the interests of the mass of the people -- in particular the black working class. Today, the cadre of the ANC is associated with stealing from the mass of people they used to die for. It is now commonly accepted, including...
ACTIVlist Update - May 10, 2017
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 14:15
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Barlow calls on Trudeau to establish a federal ministry of water Kinder Morgan pipeline & LNG industry pivotal issues as Greens hold balance of power in B.C. Quill Plains and Prince Albert chapters encourage calls to 43 Liberal MPs on electoral reform
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Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has called for the creation of a federal ministry of water.
The outcome of last night's election in British Columbia is uncertain.
The Council of...
Childcare Now! The Struggle for Quality, Universal Childcare
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 May 2017 23:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1412 .... May 10, 2017
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Childcare Now! The Struggle for Quality, Universal Childcare
Shellie Bird, Candace Rennick, Michael Hurley
In 1991, 20 per cent of childcare workers belonged to a union. This stands at 21 per cent today. Despite their stated commitment to organize women in the wage ghetto of childcare, unions have essentially forsaken one of the most vulnerable, underpaid and undervalued female dominated workforces in this country.
Universal, quality, accessible, free, not-for-profit, childcare is the goal. But while unionization of childcare workers has increased marginally in a 25-year period, for-profit delivery of childcare spaces grew by 33 per cent in a 10-year period ending in 2014.
The childcare workforce deserves decent wages, benefits and good working conditions -- they deserve a union. But, unions in Canada...
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ACTIVlist Update - May 9, 2017
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 May 2017 16:15
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Montreal chapter helps form Leap community chapter Inverness County chapter raises concerns about Point Tupper biomass facility in Cape Breton Moncton chapter shares action alert opposing for-profit plasma centre in their community
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The Council of Canadians Montreal chapter helped form a 'Leap community chapter in Montreal' at a meeting yesterday.
The Council of Canadians Inverness County chapter was at the Peace and Friendship Alliance-Nova Scotia gathering that was held this past weekend.
The...
Tell DoJ: Dont let Monsanto get any bigger
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 May 2017 10:15
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Coca-Cola Indonesia workers demand respect for human rights!
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 May 2017 02:00
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Canada's 150th: A Québécois View
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- Published on Monday, 08 May 2017 22:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1411 .... May 9, 2017
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Canada’s 150th: A Québécois View
André Binette
Each sovereign state can choose the date of its national holiday. Generally, this date recalls the accession to independence. The United States, for example, chose to emphasize each year their unilateral declaration of independence of July 4, 1776. They preferred this date to the date of the Treaty of Paris, 1783, which ended the revolutionary war they had won thanks to France's decisive support. Their national holiday commemorates a founding act.
In France, where the origin of independence is lost in the mists of time, they remember the 14th of July, the fall of the Bastille, as the passage from monarchy to the Republic, the founding act of modern France. Unlike some other countries, the United Kingdom...
Im at the tar sands right now.
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- Published on Monday, 08 May 2017 16:00
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Friends,
Right now, I am standing in the tar sands with my friends from the Pacific Islands. These Pacific Climate Warriors have come here from the other side of the world to bear witness to one of the most destructive fossil fuel sites in the world. They are also here to raise their paddles in resistance alongside Indigenous communities in North America.
It’s gut wrenching to be here in the tar sands -- breathing in the fumes, seeing the colossal waste sites, and coming face to face with the monstrosity that I have been fighting against for over a decade. But the Pacific Climate Warriors’ spirit of resilience is bringing me strength. To see our live updates from this journey, including footage from an aerial tour of...
Palm oil disaster in Guatemala
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- Published on Monday, 08 May 2017 14:15
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