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ACTIVlist Update - April 20, 2017
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Canada-China Free Trade Agreement talks in Ottawa, April 24-28 Trump rages against Canadian dairy, but supply management faces internal threats too Barlow denounces water shutoffs in Detroit as a "terrible violation of the human right to...
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A second round of exploratory talks on a proposed Canada-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will be happening in Ottawa this coming April 24-28.
US President Donald Trump has vowed to eliminate Canada's "very unfair" dairy supply-management system.
Apply for the CYD to COP23 in Bonn, Germany
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VIDEO: New UBC Study is Bad News for Site C
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- Published on Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:15
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ACTIVlist Update - April 19, 2017
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Nestlé continues to draw water in Aberfoyle 262 days after its permit expired Quill Plains chapter speaks against proposed small modular nuclear reactors
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Ontario residents are waiting for a critical decision to be made by Premier Kathleen Wynne on the bottled water industry after the provincial government held a series of consultations on this issue over the past several months.
The Council of Canadians Quill Plains (Wynyard) chapter is speaking against small modular...
5 days to send a big message.
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 April 2017 08:30
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Friends,
By approving pipelines, like Kinder Morgan, Prime Minister Trudeau has shown the world that he doesn’t take his climate promises seriously — the math just doesn’t add up.
When politicians refuse to act, people and institutions have to step up and lead. That’s why I’m writing you today to ask you to call on Canada’s most iconic museum to cut ties with the dirtiest oil lobby in the country -- the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
The esteemed Canadian Museum of History shouldn’t take money from sleazy oil lobbyists. Can you add your name to the petition calling on the Museum to cut ties to CAPP?
This is the last year of CAPP’s sponsorships agreement with the Museum of History which gives it a unique opportunity to stand out...
By the time you read this I'll be in prison
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 April 2017 05:30
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An Economic Policy for France
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1398 .... April 19, 2017
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An Economic Policy for France
Despite the fact that France is not yet out of the economic stagnation that followed the 2007-08 crisis, Emmanuel Macron and François Fillon want to continue and to intensify the policies of cuts to public expenditure, dismantling the social and State labour-rights, that were applied without pause by the previous governments. These policies have only served the richest in society. They only lead to immerse the country in the vicious circle of unemployment and precariousness, terrain of the rise of the FN [Front National] whose false social "varnish" can barely hide their profoundly racist and xenophobic nature and the incoherence of their economic propositions.
On the contrary, the solutions proposed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon are, in our opinion, the only ones...
ACTIVlist Update - April18, 2017
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WIN! City of Prince Albert supports right to water & public water Public input on Trans-Pacific Partnership ignored by Liberal government
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The Council of Canadians Prince Albert chapter has won their city council's support for the human right to water and publicly financed, owned and operated water and wastewater services.
The Liberal-dominated House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade has issued its report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The bees are going EXTINCT
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The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
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- Published on Monday, 17 April 2017 22:45
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The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
Christoph Scherrer and Anil Shah
Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
In the decades following, the number of prisoners decreased to a historic minimum. But with cutbacks in the welfare state, the prison population exploded from about 200,000 in 1975 to 2,300,000 in 2013 (Scherrer and Shah, 2017: 37) and prison labour for commercial purposes became legal again. Today, about 15% of the inmates in federal and state prisons...
Upcoming Grassroots Events You Don't Want to Miss!
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Madagascar: Dock workers sacked for joining a union
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- Published on Monday, 17 April 2017 06:15
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Gender Identity at the Borders
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- Published on Sunday, 16 April 2017 11:45
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The War on Drugs in Mexico
In this week’s takeover of Open Society’s Instagram feed, photographer Emmanuel Guillén Lozano documents violence and the failed war on drugs in Mexico.
Basic Income: A Way Forward for the Left?
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- Published on Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:15
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 13 April 2017
Basic Income: A Way Forward for the Left?
The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been championed by both progressives and conservatives. Not everyone on the left, however, is behind the idea. Is the UBI a means of redistributing wealth, attacking poverty and protecting workers from technological displacement? Or will basic income serve to advance an agenda of austerity and privatization? This important debate features two speakers speaking in favour of the left support for Basic Income and two against.
Opening remarks: Kikélola Roach, Unifor Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice & Democracy, Ryerson University. Moderator: Avi Lewis, The Leap.
- John Clarke, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) [speaking against]
- Jessica Sikora, OPSEU Local 586 [speaking against]
- Josephine Grey, Low Income Families Together (LIFT)...
You have a message about Eugene Belinsk
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UPDATE: We have a plan / METTRE À JOUR: Voici
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- Published on Friday, 14 April 2017 14:45
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La version française se trouve ci-dessous.
There are times when each of us can make a difference in a very concrete way.
This is one of those times!
We must show Justin Trudeau that there is a price to pay for his government’s betrayal on electoral reform.
Being Multi-Partisan is not easy, especially when some of your friends don’t stand up for you. We know that a lot of Liberal MPs support fairer elections but they’ve gone silent. Maybe they are embarrassed that their boss decided that he would kill electoral reform because it wasn’t going his way, or maybe they don’t want to create waves because that is a guaranteed way to stay on the back bench?
That is why we plan to take a bolder position.
PAOV, the discussion keeps evolving
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