87% of B.C. Grizzly Deaths Due to Trophy Hunting

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A win for baby pigs!

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We just got amazing news: A cruel pig-chasing event has been cancelled!

The Dundas Agricultural Fair in Prince Edward Island hosted a "pig scramble" in past years—an outdated event where traumatized baby pigs are chased around a pen and captured, all for the sake of entertainment.

But this year was different. A petition against the event got national media attention, and Animal Justice sent a legal letter to local law enforcement authorities. We explained why pig scramble events violate federal and provincial animal cruelty laws, and demanded the event be prosecuted if it went ahead ahead.

Provincial officials took our legal complaint seriously. They told the fair at a meeting this week that pig chases don't comply with legal...

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United Airlines Assault

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Don't Miss Green Jobs BC's April 13th Candidates Meeting

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Don't Miss Green Jobs BC's Candidates Meeting

Join Green Jobs BC to find out where BC's political parties stand on the transition to a low carbon economy. If you can't make it in-person, grab some friends and tune in on Facebook as we stream the discussion live!

BC's three elected parties have confirmed their participation including:

• George Heyman, BC NDP Candidate for Vancouver-Fairview
• Andrew Weaver, Leader of the BC Green Party and Candidate for Victoria's Oak Bay-Gordon Head
• Andrew Wilkinson, BC Liberal Party Candidate for Vancouver-Quichena

The meeting will be moderated by Irene Lanzinger and Lisa Matthaus.

WHEN: Thursday, April 13, 2017 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
WHERE: Alice MacKay Room, Library Square at 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

We're focused on four priority areas for green job growth in BC:

1) Green Buildings 2) Clean, Renewable Energy 3)...

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ACTIVlist Update - April 12, 2017

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Published on Wednesday, 12 April 2017 14:15

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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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Kamloops chapter hosts Barlow talk on water, the Ajax mine & the Kinder Morgan pipeline
The Council of Canadians Kamloops chapter hosted Maude Barlow for a public forum that took place at Thompson Rivers University last night.

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Writing a Letter to the Editor in your local paper is an easy and effective way to make a difference in your community.

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United Airlines

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Union leader sentenced to "corrective labour colony" for calling a strike

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Published on Wednesday, 12 April 2017 03:00

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The Return of Hope: For an Offensive Double Strategy

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Published on Tuesday, 11 April 2017 22:00

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1396 .... April 12, 2017
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The Return of Hope:
For an Offensive Double Strategy

Michael Brie and Mario Candeias

The future has gone astray. The neoliberal utopia is exhausted just as are left alternatives. The decades of an initially conservative-orthodox neoliberalism from Margaret Thatcher to Helmut Kohl; its generalization under the governments from Tony Blair to Gerhard Schröder; and, finally, its authoritarian deepening and anchoring in the years of the crisis have caused social inequalities and dynamics, which are hardly under control. The structural crisis is not resolved and cannot be solved in the old framework. The attempts to stabilize financial market capitalism only extend the agony and tear apart the European Union and our societies. The situation is however not characterized by rupture; instead, an old quote from Antonio...

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ACTIVlist Update - April11, 2017

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Published on Tuesday, 11 April 2017 19:15

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Trudeau much like Harper on environmental protection
The federal Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities recently released its long-awaited recommendations on whether the Trudeau government should put protections back on 99 per cent of lakes and rivers in Canada.

As Canada-China FTA talks resume this month, poll shows 88 per cent uncomfortable with deal
The Trudeau government is having a hard time selling the proposed Canada-China Free Trade Agreement to the public.

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Christy Clark wont like this

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Christy Clark is trying to buy the election with millions of dollars from shady corporate donors.

Should the Leadnow community launch a hard-hitting election campaign to help defeat Christy Clark?

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With barely a month until the BC election, Christy Clark’s BC Liberals have raised millions from huge corporate donors, and they’re hoping they can spend their way to victory. [1]

But Premier Clark is facing tough questions about her cozy relationship with big-money donors: Did the $771,186 in donations from Kinder Morgan and their backers buy her support for their pipeline? Did more than $1.5 million in donations from condo developers influence the government’s too-little-too-late response to the housing crisis? [2-3]

With the RCMP investigating whether some donations to the BC Liberals may have broken the law, and the scandal all over the news, you can bet Christy Clark is nervous. [4]

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United Airlines

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The bees are going EXTINCT

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Review: I Am Not Your Negro

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Published on Monday, 10 April 2017 21:45

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Review: "I Am Not Your Negro"

Ernie Tate

Now and then, and despite its capitalist and racial biases, our culture throws up something that can speak quite eloquently and uniquely about the times we're living through. In this case, I'm referring to an amazing documentary film that has been released recently, "I Am Not Your Negro," directed by Raoul Peck, an acclaimed Haitian director with major films to his credit. This latest work is well worth seeing and has been well received here.

A meticulously woven story of the civil rights movement at a critical juncture in its history, expressed in the marvellous words of James Baldwin, the documentary focuses on the lives of three central leaders of that movement in the 1960s, Medgar...

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ACTIVlist Update - April 10, 2017

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Published on Monday, 10 April 2017 14:15

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Island Peace Committee marks 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge
Charlottetown-based Council of Canadians vice-chairperson Leo Broderick is a member of the Island Peace Committee.

Anglican conference in Kingston watches Barlow speech from Trinity Church in New York
Barlow spoke on March 23 from Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City on 'Water: Commons or Commodity?'.

Kinder Morgan to make its final investment decision on the Trans Mountain pipeline by June...

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