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Climate Action: The Time Crunch
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2016 17:30
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Climate action: the time crunch
March 1, 2016
So much carbon; so little time.
Trudeau might help corporations do what?
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2016 14:15
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Did you see the news this week about the 2015 election?
According to Tuesday’s Globe and Mail it was “the highest
voter turnout in almost a quarter-century. Now, Statistics Canada has
a clearer picture of who was behind that shift: Young
people.”1
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ACTIVlist Update - March 2, 2016
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Fredericton chapter calls on New Brunswick government to do its "homework" on Energy East Sudbury chapter helps defend the Benny Forest St. John's chapter questions constitutionality of abandoning MPRs...
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 Council of Canadians Fredericton chapter wants the New Brunswick government to follow Quebec's lead and do its "homework" on the 1.1 million barrel per day Energy East pipeline proposal.
The Council of Canadians Sudbury chapter is supporting efforts to save the Benny Forest.
[coalalert] TIMES COLONIST ARTICLE ON THE RAVEN COAL ISSUE
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2016 10:45
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http://www.timescolonist.com/business/courtenay-coal-mine-executives-resign-company-deemed-insolvent-1.2188040
The article in the Times Colonist is in the above link.
Gambia: Union leader dies in prison - demand justice for Sheriff Diba
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2016 03:45
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ACTIVlist Update - March 1, 2016
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Over 1,000 emails sent to Trudeau government about the TPP Winnipeg chapter says Energy East threatens Winnipeg's water supply
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 Trans-Pacific Partnership Division at Global Affairs Canada (the federal department of foreign affairs and international trade) has provided an e-mail address for the public to send in their comments and questions about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The Council of Canadians Winnipeg chapter and the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition were at City Hall yesterday...
Upcoming March Events
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Great discussions this past February! Here are the five upcoming events for March:
March 3rd @ 7PM - The Bernie Sanders Phenomenon
Sanders and his call for socialism has opened the door for the discussion on social reforms (universal health care, free education, etc) in the US and in Canada, and how they can be paid for under capitalism. Our discussion will focus on how possible these reforms are while maintain the status quo or, if a greater break with capitalism is necessary. See link: http://bit.ly/1Qapupr
March 10th @ 7PM - The Philosophy of Marxism
Trotsky's 'ABC of Materialist Dialectics' is a brilliant and short explanation of Marxist philosophy. It was written to outline how Marxism differs from traditional idealistic philosophy. As opposed to pragmatism and empiricism, Trotsky defended dialectical materialism as a richer, fuller, more comprehensive view of society and life in general. See link: http://bit.ly/1QsB62R
March 17th @...
[coalalert] RAVEN COAL MINE ARTICLE
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 March 2016 10:45
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PQB NEWS ARTICLE: http://www.pqbnews.com/news/370669321.html
Link the article is above.
This Lion didn't have to die
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 March 2016 10:45
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March 1st and 8th Events
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- Published on Monday, 29 February 2016 16:00
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The TPP threatens the things that matter most
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- Published on Monday, 29 February 2016 14:15
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Back in January we commissioned a poll that showed two things about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): few Canadians know what’s in it, and the more they learn the less they like it.
Now we’ve prepared a major public awareness campaign to rally people to reject the TPP before it’s too late - but we need your help to reach hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people across Canada.
Here are a couple sample ads:
ACTIVlist Update - February 29, 2016
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Canada agrees to special court for transnationals to sue governments with CETA
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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While negotiations on the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) were concluded almost three years ago, Canada and the EU announced today that they have agreed to changes to the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provision in the yet-to-be ratified deal.
Top 5 concerns about the Energy East Pipeline: Presentation to Winnipeg City Council
Read more: ACTIVlist Update - February 29, 2016
Honouring the Treaties
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- Published on Monday, 29 February 2016 08:30
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[coalalert] COALWATCH PRESS RELEASE 2/29/2016
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- Published on Monday, 29 February 2016 06:30
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ITUC Newsletter 71, Morocco, Egypt. China... Latest News from the ITUC
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- Published on Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:45
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International Trade Union Confederation
N°71 / February 2016
Help ratify the new treaty to end modern slavery
NOW!
Read more: ITUC Newsletter 71, Morocco, Egypt. China... Latest News from the ITUC
The NPA Seven Years On: Project, Reality and Questions
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- Published on Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1228 .... February 29, 2016
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The following article was written for Kojkkino, the theoretical magazine of the Greek organization DEA. Though quite long, it does not claim to cover all sides of the question. Indeed, it's the kind of article that is never really finished and that has to be constantly reworked and supplemented. Its main objective is to stimulate collective thinking about the lessons of the successes and failures of the French New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) from its birth to the present day.
The NPA Seven Years On: Project, Reality and Questions
Pierre Rousset
Radical Left organizations in Europe have tended to focus their attention on the major political and electoral experiences that have stood out in the recent period -- beginning with Syriza in Greece, Podemos in the Spanish...
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Independent media changes everything
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- Published on Sunday, 28 February 2016 12:45
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25 Feb 2016
Hello rabble readers!
This week, Avi Lewis called rabble.ca "our cherished, venerable, fierce and principled source of truly independent media in Canada." He's right, you know. That's why we're offering a free copy of his incredible, groundbreaking film This Changes Everything to anyone who becomes a monthly supporter or increases their donation. Like Avi, Naomi Klein and the thousands of other signatories to the Leap Manifesto, we want to make 2016 a "Leap Year" for climate justice. And to do that we need a strong, vibrant independent media more than ever. Will you chip in a few bucks today to help us get there?
This is what Jennifer Lawrence is thinking right now…
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- Published on Sunday, 28 February 2016 09:15
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Hey PAOV,Listen to what Jennifer Lawrence is thinking right now:
She’s right.
Tell this year's Oscar nominees to stand up for girls and women everywhere by making a #PledgeForParity.
Closing the gender gap can increase a country’s GDP by 15 percent or more. This means more jobs, more spending, and lifting millions of people out of extreme poverty.Hollywood has the ability...
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Hands Off Our Healthcare, Hydro, Transit and Housing
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- Published on Sunday, 28 February 2016 06:00
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 21 February 2016
Hands Off Our Healthcare, Hydro, Transit and Housing
Privatization is everywhere in the city, our province, and across the country, whether is is selling off public resources and services; financing and managing public projects through public/private partnerships (P3s); contracting out the public capacity to manage and oversee the operation of programmes we all need.
Privatization seeks to transform our education, healthcare, energy, and transit into more assets for the 1% to profit from. It undermines public healthcare, affordable, sustainable and reliable energy, accessible transit, social and affordable housing, and the livelihoods of those who work in these sectors.
Who loses most from privatization? Workers, the unemployed, oppressed groups and the environment.
A number of movements work to challenge privatization -- campaigns against the privatization...
Read more: Hands Off Our Healthcare, Hydro, Transit and Housing
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- ACTIVlist Update - February 26, 2016
- B.C. could be a climate leader -- have your say before March 25
- February e-Newsletter
- Internet Insider: Your cellphone, your privacy, and dangerous backdoors...
- Talleys/AFFCO lockout lifted by court order, rights abuses continue
