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ACTIVlist Update - March 29, 2017
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Trudeau set to break its promise to meet even Harper's weak carbon-emissions reduction target Sudbury chapter mourns the suicide of deeply-caring forest defender
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The Toronto Star reports, "Environment Canada is projecting that, based on policies in place last November, the country was on pace to miss its reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, pumping out at least 30 per cent more than promised that year."
The Council of Canadians Sudbury chapter...
Nestlé: stop palm oil deforestation
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Budget Disaster
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:00
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The government just kicked the door open to an Internet Tax, Internet censorship rules, and slow lanes online – rules experts say could “dramatically alter the Internet in Canada.”1
The federal government’s budget promises a wide-ranging, unwieldy review of key Internet safeguards that’s sure to unleash the full wrath of Big Telecom’s lobbyists. As expert Peter Nowak says, “The likelihood of the rules going against the public interest is just too great."2
The government has even undermined our historic CRTC...
Big Oil has no place in our museums.
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Friends,
Growing up near Ottawa, one of my favorite things to do was visit the Museum of History with my family. It’s one of the most popular and iconic museums in Canada, visited by over 1 million people a year.
As a young adult, I was disturbed to find out that the Museum of History receives money from a dangerous oil lobby group: the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). Big Oil pays CAPP the big bucks to buy off our politicians and weaken our laws making it easier to expand tar sands and build massive pipelines, like Keystone XL.
As someone who is deeply concerned about climate change, I believe CAPP has no place in our trusted museums. Will you join me and add your...
Toronto's Buried History: The Dark Story of How Mining Built a City
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1390 .... March 29, 2017
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Toronto's Buried History:
The Dark Story of How Mining Built a City
Niko Block
On Sunday March 5th, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) hosted its 85th annual conference in downtown Toronto. With more than 20,000 attendees and 900 exhibitors, the conference is the largest of its kind in the world. During those four days, delegates take over 20 of Toronto's downtown hotels and spend millions of dollars in its restaurants and bars.
By day, they meet in the caverns of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre -- an underground pavilion larger than 10 football fields -- to make deals. When I attended the conference in 2013, by the end of day one of my satchel contained several business cards, glossy brochures and...
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ACTIVlist Update - March 28, 2017
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St. John's chapter co-sponsors public forum on electoral reform, March 31 Trudeau's development finance institution could mean P3s, water privatization, more mining
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The Council of Canadians St. John's chapter is co-sponsoring a Democracy Alert public forum on electoral reform.
The Canadian Press reports, "Canada can do more with less foreign aid spending, says Finance Minister Bill Morneau, and that includes relying on a new profit-driven financial lending institution to help fight poverty in...
Parental leave for new fathers
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Coca-Cola: Time to respect workers rights - support the campaign
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Building the "Saskatchewan Advantage"
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- Published on Monday, 27 March 2017 22:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1389 .... March 28, 2017
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Building the "Saskatchewan Advantage"
Saskatchewan’s 2017 Austerity Budget
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" -- Rahm Emanuel
Charles W. Smith and Andrew Stevens
Saskatchewan's 2017 budget landed with an unenthusiastic thud last week. Riddled with cuts, job losses, public sector wage reductions, and tax increases, the Saskatchewan Party's austerity budget has garnered few friends, with critics ranging from organized labour movement to small businesses. The government's budget has several fiscal goals: aggressively tackle its $1.3-billion deficit in three short years, overhaul the tax structure away from progressive forms of taxation to consumption taxes, and dismantle key aspects of the social welfare state.
In our view, Budget 2017 should be viewed in two ways. First, it is clearly a reactionary...
7 ways to protect yourself from…
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If you haven’t donated recently, did you know that Democracy Watch is the only group in Canada working to protect you in 7 ways from gouging and waste of your money, and...
ACTIVlist Update - March 27, 2017
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French Constitutional Court delays decision on legality of CETA
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The French Constitutional Court has delayed its ruling on the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) prompting calls for the deal's provisional application to be postponed past July 1.
NEB Status quo vs. NEB Modernization: Are the oil and pipeline companies and industry-friendly panel controlling the outcome of this review?
On March 21, 2017, the NEB Modernization Review Expert Panel came...
Taste the rights abuses at Coca-Cola Indonesia!
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BNC Statement on Israel's Ongoing Campaign to Silence Omar Barghouti and Repress BDS
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- Published on Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1388 .... March 27, 2017
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BNC Statement on Israel’s Ongoing Campaign to Silence Omar Barghouti and Repress BDS
BDS National Committee
On the morning of Sunday, March 19, Israeli tax authorities barged into the home of Omar Barghouti, the prominent Palestinian human rights defender and co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for the freedom, justice and equality of the Palestinian people. They detained and interrogated Omar and his wife Safa for 16 hours that first day. Omar is currently enduring a fourth day of interrogation.
Below is the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee’s (BNC) response to these developments and the Israeli government’s systematic efforts to criminalize the BDS movement, intimidate activists and stop free speech...
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Refusing Settler Colonialism, From Turtle Island to Palestine
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 15 March 2017
Refusing Settler Colonialism, From Turtle Island to Palestine
The keynote event of Israeli Apartheid Week 2017 focused on articulating connections between ongoing struggles against settler colonial violence and dispossession across Turtle Island (North America) and in historic Palestine. The panelists reflected on the history and current state of these anti-colonial struggles.
Erica Violet Lee is a Nēhiyaw (Cree) writer, student, feminist, and community organizer from misâskwatôminihk (Saskatoon) and Thunderchild First Nation, on Treaty 6 Territory and Métis Homeland. Erica is an organizer with Idle No More, a YWCA Women of Distinction award recipient, an Iris Marion Young scholar, and she was part of the 2015 Canadian Youth Delegation to the United Nations Climate Conference. She has a blog named Moontime Warrior: Fearless Philosophizing, Embodied Resistance, where...
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Bad news for bees. Really bad.
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ACTIVlist Update - March 24, 2017
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Kinder Morgan in Hope, BC with promises of compensation, improved safety and a deal for Nestle High and dry: Trudeau government abandons protections for 99% of lakes and rivers in Canada
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Texas-based Kinder Morgan held a community meeting in Hope, British Columbia about the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline.
The Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities tabled long-awaited recommendations on the Navigation Protection Act, formerly the Navigable Waters Protection Act today.
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Internet Insider: Delivering your voices in Washington D.C. and Ottawa
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March 24, 2017
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Keystone XL.
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- Published on Friday, 24 March 2017 10:00
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Dear Friends,
Today, nearly six years after the fight over the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline moved into high gear, Donald Trump approved the federal permit for the pipeline -- but this fight is far from over.
It’s not a surprise, but it still feels like a punch in the gut. A punch that should get us good and angry, not knock the wind out of our sails. Seizing this moment will require more of the things that carried us through to this point: passionate organizing, committed actions, and courage on all of our parts.
Prime Minister Trudeau has said that “only communities can grant permission” for mega-projects, and pledged to make Canada a climate leader. Keystone, just like the Energy East and Kinder Morgan pipelines, does not have community consent and, if built,...
campaign success - rights defender Elena Urlaeva released!
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