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Internet Insider: FBI's encryption battle with Apple could undermine our privacy
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INTERNET INSIDER
January 29, 2016
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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'No Admittance Except on Business'
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- Published on Thursday, 18 February 2016 23:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1223 .... February 19, 2016
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‘No Admittance Except on Business’:
How P3s are Produced and the Secret of Their Profit Making
Heather Whiteside
"Accompanied by Mr. Moneybags ... we [enter] into the hidden abode of production, on whose threshold there stares us in the face ‘No admittance except on business’. Here we shall see, not only how capital produces, but how capital is produced. We shall at last force the secret of profit making."
— Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 6.
On February 21, 2016 a rare but much-needed Anti-Privatization Forum is being held in Toronto. The event not only continues a decades-long struggle by unions, activists, and concerned citizens to protect public services; it identifies areas of particular relevance in Ontario's privatization saga today -- namely in relation...
This week @ rabble.ca: Fighting the Liberal free trade agenda
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04 Feb 2016
Hey rabble readers!
The rabble media project started nearly 15 years ago with a vision to transform the media landscape in Canada. rabble.ca's founders wanted to create national independent media coverage that is completely free to access, non-profit and relies on grassroots reporting of the individuals, groups and movements fighting for social change in Canada. We started by covering the anti-Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) protests in Quebec City in 2001 and haven't looked back.
You've probably heard that the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau just signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) this week. This reckless act will cost the Canadian economy 50,000 jobs. But you may not have heard about the changes being made to the already signed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The changes are fundamentally flawed and will undermine public services and will stop buy-local policies. If you did read about CETA this week, it was probably in The Globe and Mail, which published a ridiculous editorial asking: "Where do we sign?"
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Increased growth of Aboriginal incarceration must be addressed by Canada
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rabble.ca weekly e-news for February 4th, 2016
Indigenous
This week's top news and analysis about the struggles of indigenous peoples for rights and sovereignty. For more on indigenous issues visit our topic page: http://rabble.ca/indigenousA love letter at the closing of our grocery store February 4, 2016 | By Erica Violet Lee My love letter to all the wild-tongued dreamers in kisiskâciwan; those who built the Good Food Junction, those who are fighting for food wherever others are growing rich off our hunger. Increased growth of Aboriginal incarceration must be addressed by Canada February 4, 2016 | By Cory Collins As the growth in the Aboriginal prison population comes under scrutiny, past recommendations are echoed once more.
We did it! Island Health changes position on SCS: heres whats next
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We did it! With your support we pushed Island Health to change their position on Supervised Consumption Services (SCS) in Victoria!
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TPP Agreement bad for democracy, rights, public services and health - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 4 February 2016 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) a major setback for employment and workers’ rights prospects, and signaled the determination of unions in TPP countries to oppose it. After five years of secret negotiations, twelve Asia/Pacific-Rim Ministers signed the agreement today in Auckland, New Zealand, amid strong criticism from trade unions and other civil society organisations.
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Fwd:Greece: National Strike to Defend Social Security - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 4 February 2016 (ITUC OnLine): Greece’s national trade union centre the GSEE has launched a national strike today to protest against the government’s plan to dismantle the country’s social security system. GSEE union members are being joined by a wide range of professional bodies in striking against what the GSEE has described as an “odious” decision, taken by the government following its meetings with employer associations, but with no discussion or consultation with unions. The GSEE describes an increasingly hostile attitude from the government to unions.
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ACTIVlist Update - February 18, 2016
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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 forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Trudeau government considers $15 a tonne national minimum carbon price
The Trudeau government is considering setting a $15 a tonne national minimum carbon price by September.
Council of Canadians announces appeal to approval of Alton Gas Storage permits
Today the Council of Canadians stood shoulder...
Trudeau & Premier Clark Urged to Halt Site C Construction
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Tell EPA to ban these nasty chemicals!
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Urgent: 24hrs for your voice to shape the Canadian budget
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The government is putting together the federal budget right now, and the window for public submission closes on Friday at midnight.
Join us to make sure that the government doesn't ignore the world's poorest. Call on your leaders NOW to increase funding for foreign assistance in the upcoming budget. It’s easy. We’ve pre-written an email for you, so...
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The Ontario Liberals and Long-Term Care
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1222 .... February 18, 2016
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The Ontario Liberals and Long-Term Care:
The Struggle Against Privatization
Justin Panos
Governments across Canada have been caught in a fiscal bind over the entire period of neoliberalism. On the one hand, they have pursued austerity and restraint almost without interruption since the 1990s; and, on the other, they remain under pressure to deliver some minimal social security for welfare, healthcare, pensions and so forth. Since the eruption of the financial crisis in 2008 this contradiction, a core tension of meeting social needs in capitalist societies, has gotten worse. The combination of a long depression in economic growth and permanent austerity in government budgeting has further cramped government fiscal capacities. This has led to all kinds of efforts, following the new public management organization of...
Egypt: protest the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni
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ACTIVlist Update - February 17, 2016
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Unifor links TPP and the struggle for immigration status for all workers Trudeau reportedly pressuring India against reform of ISDS provision Trudeau appears to choose to stick with ISDS in 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 forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.
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The Council of Canadians stands in solidarity with Unifor in its opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
It appears that the Trudeau government is pressuring India on its proposed reform to the controversial investor-state dispute (ISDS) mechanism.
It appears that the Trudeau government will stick with the...
Starbucks: Take deforestation off the menu!
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 February 2016 13:45
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Protest the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni in Egypt
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 February 2016 05:30
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