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My son died because of a pharmacy error
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- Published on Sunday, 23 October 2016 09:00
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The Building Storm Against the TPP
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- Published on Saturday, 22 October 2016 21:30
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The Building Storm Against the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the one of the most recent of the neoliberal trade agreements being proposed. The final proposal was signed off in February 2016 in Auckland, New Zealand by 12 countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the USA, and Vietnam, after 7 years of negotiation. It awaits ratification in each country. It is a companion agreement to the existing NAFTA agreement, and the CETA and TTIP agreements that Canada and the U.S. are respectively negotiating with the EU.
The agreement contains 30 chapters covering a huge array of issues. The claims of the agreement are, of course, to “promote economic growth; support the creation and retention of jobs; enhance innovation, productivity and competitiveness; raise living standards;...
ACTIVlist Update - October 21, 2016
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WIN! Wallonia holds firm on CETA, Oct. 27 signing ceremony now improbable
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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The Belgian region of Wallonia is holding firm in its opposition to the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
Montreal chapter protests CETA conference, celebrates collapse of the deal
The Council of Canadians Montreal chapter joined a protest today outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel against the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
Internet Insider: Latest on our Supreme Court case, the Link Tax, and C-51
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- Published on Friday, 21 October 2016 08:45
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October 21, 2016
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They knew they were killing bees all along
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- Published on Friday, 21 October 2016 03:45
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 21 October 2016 03:15
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The Future of the Euro Area
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- Published on Friday, 21 October 2016 00:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1318 .... October 21, 2016
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The Future of the Euro Area
Frederic Heine and Thomas Sablowski
The unequal development of the countries of the euro area since the outbreak of the crisis is causing increasing friction that threatens to tear the monetary union apart. Contrary to what many critics of the monetary union suggest, responsibility for this development lies not alone with its internal structure, but is rather a general feature of capitalist development. It is illusory to believe that under the dominance of the capitalist mode of production a spatially even development would ever be possible. Rather, the current monetary regime reinforces the cycles of capitalist crisis.
During the boom phase of the economy before the crisis, the economic and social gap between the centre and the periphery...
I believe we will win this one.
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- Published on Thursday, 20 October 2016 15:00
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(You already got one email from us yesterday by accident about a bus leaving Toronto -- please ignore, unless you happen to be in that area. My apologies for the mistake!)
Friends,
Four years ago, I was organizing my first action for the climate justice movement. I was working with a campus-based group in British Columbia to demand that the premier of the province, Christy Clark, oppose the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.
At the time, we were a small but passionate group of students and faculty – and the fight against Kinder Morgan was big and daunting. I was hopeful but it was difficult to be optimistic. Oh, how much things have changed.
On Monday, over a hundred youth and students will risk arrest in Ottawa...
ACTIVlist Update - October 20, 2016
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New Council of Canadians chapter launched in Kitchener-Waterloo WIN! Gatineau city council rejects the Energy East pipeline Winnipeg chapter fights against the Energy East pipeline
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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About 25 people came together in Kitchener-Waterloo last night to launch a local chapter of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest social activist group.
On September 29, Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow wrote to about 2,000 of our supporters in the Ottawa-Gatineau area.
The Council of Canadians...
CoDev Invite - Holiday Open House
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- Published on Thursday, 20 October 2016 10:00
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They knew they were killing bees all along
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- Published on Thursday, 20 October 2016 09:15
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B.C. Government Faces Criminal Charges Over Mount Polley Disaster
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- Published on Thursday, 20 October 2016 09:15
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New Owner AB InBev must settle bitter dispute in Australia!
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Save the date for a special celebration
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A New Structure of Feeling hits newsstands worldwide today!
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 19:15
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Hey Jammers,
Did modernity kill the human spirit? Did capitalism precipitate our existential crisis? Is the natural order of the world now toast? From the utopian glow of cyber abstraction to the brutality of the new Dark Age, we wonder what will come after the mo and pomo eras bite the dust. And what shall we call this new era - what’s it all about? Is it still mo + pomo minus the cynicism? Or is it nomo with a brick in your hand?
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Toronto: Join the bus to Climate 101
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 09:15
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Friends,
On October 24th, throngs of young people from across Canada will risk arrest for the Climate 101 action in Ottawa to call on Prime Minister Trudeau to reject the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
Across Canada, people are grilling the Trudeau government in the lead up to the Kinder Morgan decision in December. Just last week, hundreds in Winnipeg confronted the Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr calling for a rejection of the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Now, weeks before the next round of UN climate talks, young people will bring this fight to the capital city.
Here’s your chance to join them.
There will be a bus leaving for Ottawa from Toronto. If you’re a young person interested in joining the Climate 101 action, sign up for...
Indonesian fast food workers standing up for their rights need your support
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Is "Postcapitalism" On the Horizon?
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1317 .... October 19, 2016
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Is "Postcapitalism" On the Horizon?
Andrew Jackson
Paul Mason is a leading British economic journalist, currently a columnist for The Guardian. He is also a long time left political activist. His new book, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. New York, 2015) is a challenging, sometimes obscure, sometimes brilliant, eminently worthwhile read, and an optimistic take that the left might, once again, be marching in tune with the forces of history.
Mason is, to say the least, highly original and idiosyncratic. His book is partly addressed to the orthodox Marxist left, endorses and builds upon the labour theory of value, takes seriously the possibility of a planned, non market economy, and pays tribute to the traditions of radical working-class socialism....
CoDev presents a new video on NSIP
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 October 2016 14:30
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