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#Showup Canada
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Happy Canada Day Paov,
When we celebrate Canada, we celebrate diversity, strength, and keeping peace. As Canadians and united Global Citizens, we have the power to make meaningful change.
Global Citizens just like you affected the lives of 297 million people last year.
This year we want to make an even bigger impact, but we need you to #showup.
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Editing an entire species?
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 June 2016 05:30
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The Neoliberal Prison and Brexit
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 June 2016 00:15
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counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 6-28-2016
The Neoliberal Prison
Jonathan Cook on Brexit hysteria and the liberal mind.
Omar's Motive
James Bradley explores what was really behind Omar Mateen's hate-filled shooting spree in Orlando.
Bell's big bad $4 billion bid
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 June 2016 00:00
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Bell Canada wants to buy Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS) for $4 billion.
Goodbye to All That: Why the UK Left the EU
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 June 2016 22:45
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counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 6-24-2016 
Why the UK Said Bye Bye to the EU
Pepe Escobar breaks down David Cameron's big gamble. 
Panic in the House
Tariq Ali on the ramifications of the Brexit vote.
Help Us Show MPs that Canadian Are Paying Attention and Support PR!
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 June 2016 22:45
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Over the past few days 937 of us have sent emails to our MPs asking to be invited to a local town hall. Thank you!
As the Electoral Reform Committee begins its important work this summer, all MPs need to know that their constituents support the promise to Make Every Vote Count! Please take a moment to send a message to your MP now.
Read more: Help Us Show MPs that Canadian Are Paying Attention and Support PR!
John Pilger: Why the British Said No to Europe
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 June 2016 22:30
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counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 6-25-2016
Why the British Said No to Europe
John Pilger on why Brexit is a blow for peace and democracy.
Who Earns Minimum Wage?
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 June 2016 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1276 .... June 29, 2016
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Who Earns Minimum Wage?
Angella MacEwen
Minimum wages have been getting a lot of attention lately. And for good reason. Workers earning minimum wage often struggle to get enough hours, don't have predictable schedules or advance notice of shifts, and many don't even have access to unpaid sick days.
Alberta's current government was elected on a plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2018, and the Nova Scotia NDP recently tabled a bill that would have the minimum wage increase each January, eventually reaching $15 in 2019.
How many people even earn minimum wage? Well if you take everyone earning less than the primary minimum wage, there were 1,253,000 workers earning minimum wage or less in 2015 (many provinces have exceptions...
ACTIVlist Update - June 28, 2016
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Energy East: Deciphering the NEB review process Kent County chapter demands glyphosate report Peterborough chapter says City report on PDI sale "very slanted...
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 first thing that we need to understand is that this is a unique process designed by the NEB for the Energy East pipeline.
Council of Canadians Kent County chapter activist Ann Pohl has called on New Brunswick's Acting Chief Medical Officer of Health to release a report on glyphosate.
ACTIVlist Update - June 27, 2016
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French prime minister says TTIP against Europe's interests
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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Following the Brexit vote and the loss of the United Kingdom's backing in the ratification process for the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), support from France for CETA's sister trade deal between the EU and the United States also appears to be in danger.
Only 1 in 4 Canadians support NAFTA
While the 'Three Amigos' (Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, US...
The UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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- Published on Monday, 27 June 2016 11:00
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BREAKING: assisted dying law goes straight to court
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- Published on Monday, 27 June 2016 09:45
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Women workers in Turkey need your help today
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- Published on Monday, 27 June 2016 06:45
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After Brexit, Turning Away from Fear
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- Published on Sunday, 26 June 2016 23:45
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Open society is still our best chance for democracy, rule of law, rights, and equality.
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Friends,
Once a society opens itself, the prospect of a return to certainty is at best a nostalgic fantasy. A politics of fear can lead otherwise reasonable people to chase after that fantasy.
In the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, we must seek to quell this fear—not only in Britain; indeed, not only in Europe. But everywhere we work.
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The Left and the EU
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- Published on Sunday, 26 June 2016 22:30
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counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 6-22-2016
Ask Your MP to Invite You to Their Electoral Reform Town Hall!
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- Published on Sunday, 26 June 2016 22:15
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Ask Your MP to Invite You to Their Electoral Reform Town Hall 
A little over a year ago today, Justin Trudeau joined the NDP and Green Party in making an historic promise: "We will make every vote count." Together those parties represent 63% of voters.
Justin Trudeau has said first-past-the-post is gone. Now is the time to make sure we get a proportional system that will fix the problems with first-past-the-post, and treat all citizens and their representatives fairly.
Read more: Ask Your MP to Invite You to Their Electoral Reform Town Hall!
A Day to Honor Refugees
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- Published on Sunday, 26 June 2016 22:00
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Today is World Refugee Day, a chance to focus attention on the countless men, women, and children risking their lives to flee violence and persecution back home. Their goal? Safety, and a chance to contribute to the new societies in which they settle.
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Class Struggles, TO
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- Published on Saturday, 25 June 2016 23:00
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 9 June 2016
Class Struggles, TO:
Women and the Poor in the City's History
A panel of activists and historians on the struggles of women and the poor in the city's history.
Moderated by Scott Forsyth. Presentations by:
- Joan Sangster teaches in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at Trent University. She has written articles and monographs on working women and labour movement, the history of the Left, feminist historiography, the criminalization of women and girls, and Aboriginal women and the law. Her most recent book was Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada. In 2017, UBC Press will publish her overview of the Canadian women's suffrage movement from the colonial period to 1960.
- Bryan Palmer edits the journal Labour/Le Travail, and has authored a number of...
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