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Only 6 countries are currently meeting this global standard.
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It's time to take action to increase Canada's official development assistance (ODA) to 0.7% -- assistance that will help economies grow, strengthen health systems and give children - especially girls - the quality education they deserve.
Win tickets to the Global Citizen Festival: Email the Trudeau government to give 0.7% of gross national income for overseas development to help the world’s most vulnerable.
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Internet Insider: Pokemon Go and zero rating
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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Implementing Austerity By Downloading Responsibility
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1284 .... July 22, 2016
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Implementing Austerity By Downloading Responsibility:
Ontario's Attack On Social Assistance
AJ Withers and Yogi Acharya
Laura Bardeau had bedbugs and lost all of her furniture. A single mother with two children, trying to survive on social assistance, she applied for emergency housing support from the City of Toronto's Housing Stabilization Fund (HSF). In doing so Laura was one of over 30,000 people annually who try to access this fund. As per her eligibility, Laura requested the maximum $1500 the City allots for replacing necessary furniture. That was in April. Much to her surprise, she was denied; not once, but twice. The City told her she made too much money and should have the resources to pay for furniture herself.
Laura's sole source of income...
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Site C Project Far From Clean and Green, Finds New UBC Report
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ACTIVlist Update - July 21, 2016
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Quinte Chapter protests disposable water bottles and promotes 'Plastic-Free July' Barlow calls on McKenna to stop Enerdu dam in Almonte
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A few Quinte Chapter members headed out to Belleville’s Waterfront and Ethnic Festival held at Zwick’s Park on Saturday, July 9th.
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has joined the call for federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna to issue an emergency order to stop the construction of the Enerdu Power Systems hydroelectric dam...
Where did the Stingray Inquiry go?
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2016 Global Citizen Festival: Take action for the chance to win tickets.
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Did you know that we are 0.1% away from eradicating polio?
Take action: It could make history AND earn you tickets to the 2016 Global Citizen Festival in New York City on September 24.
Right now, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two polio-endemic countries that remain in the world and healthcare workers are on the...
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Nestlé is after Ontario's water.
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Let's bring in these grads
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Take down centuries of blood money with Decolonize Now!
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rabble.ca weekly e-news for July 14th, 2016
Take down centuries of blood money with Decolonize Now!July 12, 2016 | By Tania Ehret
Amai Kuda, Kimalee Phillip, and Amy Desjarlais from Decolonize Now! discussed decolonizing social movements and the urgency of revolutionary change in education.Read more: Take down centuries of blood money with Decolonize Now!
This week @ rabble.ca: Homelessness in Canada is a crisis
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Super InTent City sheds light on national housing needs
"When we look at homelessness in Canada, it is a crisis. It is an emergency." Alyse Kotyk reports on Tent City in Victoria and its implications across Canada.
By Alyse Kotyk
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Greece Braces for New Troika Onslaught on Workers Rights - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 20 July 2016 (ITUC OnLine): Greek workers are preparing for yet more attacks on their fundamental rights as the IMF/EU/European Central Bank 'Troika', at the urging of the IMF, prepares to impose a new round of cuts to minimum wages, weakening of laws protecting workers facing dismissal and further erosion of trade union rights as creditors position themselves in advance of an Autumn review of the "adjustment programme" for Greece.
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Turkey: Dictatorship a Step Closer After Deplorable Failed Coup - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 18 July 2016 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has expressed deep concern over the dismissal of nearly 3,000 prosecutors and judges, along with 8,000 police and a large number of civil servants in the wake of the failed military coup in Turkey. 232 people were reportedly killed during the coup attempt, and some 1,400 wounded.
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Help make voting fair and democratic
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Democracy Watch is a supporter of Fair Vote Canada’s Make Every Vote Count campaign.
We have joined together, and with many other citizen groups, because we need to work together – and we need your help now – to make Canada’s voting system more fair and democratic.
The federal Special Committee on Electoral Reform, made up of politicians from all the parties that have MPs in the House of Commons, is right now travelling the country hearing Canadians’ proposals for change. They have invited all MPs to hold town...
Rethinking Recovery: Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1283 .... July 20, 2016
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Rethinking Recovery: Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism
Reorienting value generated within ‘global poverty chains’ is essential to improve the lives of an impoverished world labour force.
Benjamin Selwyn
Contemporary global capitalism is characterized by extreme wealth concentration and a rapidly expanding and largely impoverished global labour force. Mainstream institutions such as the World Bank and International Labour Organization encourage integration into global value chains as a development strategy that, they claim, will reduce poverty. In reality, employment within these chains generates new forms of worker poverty and contributes to global wealth concentration. That is why they should be labelled global poverty chains.
Global inequality has never been greater. For example, the wealth of the world's richest 62 people, who between them have more wealth than...
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Black Anger, Incarceration & Antiwar Movement
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5 months to stop a climate disaster.
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This December, Justin Trudeau will decide to either approve or reject the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline. Before he does, his Ministerial panel will listen to people across Canada and determine if the pipeline is in Canada’s “national interest”.
If built, the Kinder Morgan pipeline will steamroll over Indigenous rights and make it impossible for Canada to meet the global climate commitments made in Paris. It would make an oil spill in the Pacific Ocean almost inevitable. None of these things are in Canada’s national interest. Click here to tell Prime Minister Trudeau and his Ministerial review panel to reject Kinder Morgan.
The Kinder Morgan pipeline would move 890,000 barrels of tar sands each day. Bigger than the Keystone XL pipeline, Kinder Morgan...
Last chance! Don't let Monsanto undermine GMO labeling
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