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ACTIVlist Update - August 26, 2016
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The politically hip Gord Downie
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I went to see the Tragically Hip play in Ottawa. It was a memorable concert and additionally moving given the band's singer and lyricist Gord Downie is courageously facing brain cancer.
Windsor chapter to support Grandmothers at Walpole Island First Nation pipeline blockade
“When I saw the welcoming ceremony in front of the Water Treatment facility, and knowing the history of gas and oil extraction, and the...
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CoDev 2016 AGM Announcement
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- Published on Friday, 26 August 2016 09:45
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Health Canada: Don't allow beef irradiation
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- Published on Friday, 26 August 2016 09:30
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Internet Insider: Leaked Link Tax docs prove EU Commission misled the public
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- Published on Friday, 26 August 2016 08:45
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Read more: Internet Insider: Leaked Link Tax docs prove EU Commission misled the public
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 26 August 2016 03:15
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Call to Action! Save the Blenkinsop Valley!
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- Published on Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:45
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Why Trudeau Should Call Off the Reviews of Trans Mountain and Energy East
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- Published on Thursday, 25 August 2016 10:15
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How Not To Fund Infrastructure
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 23:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1296 .... August 25, 2016
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How Not To Fund Infrastructure
Michal Rozworski
Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so when the federal Liberals quietly announced that "asset recycling" would be part of their strategy for meeting their much-ballyhooed infrastructure promises, not many eyebrows were raised. They should have been. Asset recycling is an obscure code word for selling our public goods for private profit. It's privatization by another name.
Don't have the taxes to pay for new buses? It's okay, you can sell your electricity utility to pay for them instead. In fact, this is precisely what the Ontario Liberal government is doing. Already 30 per cent of the profitable Hydro One have been sold and another 30 per cent will be sold before 2018. A public...
Corporate control of food? We're fed up.
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 16:15
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Urgent Action: Protect Freedom of Association in Ecuador
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 10:45
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US-style healthcare coming to Canada
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 10:15
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Save 6 million lives
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End the brutal killing of male chicks
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:00
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5 great things you're doing this summer
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:45
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This fall is going to be intense. The Trudeau Liberals’ consultations on many key issues are going to wrap up in the next few months - and then the government will make massive decisions that will shape our country for a generation.
Reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or ratify it? Make every vote count, or let the promise of electoral reform die? Lead a bold climate plan, or build more pipelines? On those issues, and many others, the government will show us their plans this fall.
The Leadnow community is working together for a strong democracy, fair economy and clean environment for all generations. It’s essential that the government hears from people like you - and on issue after issue, you’ve been calling for lasting change.
WATCH: Trudeaus panel hears from the people
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 13:45
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Friend,
Last week, we delivered 144,000 messages to Prime Minister Trudeau’s ministerial panel on Kinder Morgan telling them to reject the pipeline.
It was a remarkable experience. I had the chance to stand with hundreds of others at the Ministerial panel’s hearings. The room was overflowing – and there was an overwhelming consensus that the Kinder Morgan pipeline must be stopped. The people there made it clear that they were prepared to do whatever it takes to ensure that this pipeline does not get built.
You can watch the highlights from the day here:
I left the room feeling reinvigorated and motivated to stay strong in the fight against the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
The Prime Minister’s panel on Kinder Morgan is accepting comments...
80% of bees DEAD
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 08:30
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Punching above our weight
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 06:15
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The Working Class: Saskatchewan's Political Orphan
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- Published on Monday, 22 August 2016 23:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1295 .... August 23, 2016
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The Working Class: Saskatchewan's Political Orphan
J. F. Conway
We all suffer from the absence of working class politics. We are smothered in the business-oriented, neoliberal ‘consensus’ instructing us to reconcile ourselves to ‘the new reality’ – rollbacks in social welfare and universal publicly funded programs; huge tax cuts to business and the rich, driving up public debt and enriching finance capitalism; an end to secure employment and guaranteed benefits; surrendering our dreams of home ownership unless we are prepared to accept a lifetime of debt enslavement; a future of uncertainty and endless personal struggle to sustain ourselves and our children. Flippant commentators now tell us the proletariat has been replaced by ‘the precariat’, and this will define the future of this new capitalism.
End repression at South African winemaker - now!
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