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ACTIVlist Update - February 16, 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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NAFTA tribunal begins hearing on wind power in freshwater
A panel of arbitrators has begun its hearing into a US-based corporation's USD$568 million NAFTA claim against Canada.


How Big Pharma markets its profitable drugs
Simply put, Big Pharma markets its drugs through doctors.


Globe & Mail columnist calls for scrapping ISDS to save CETA
The Globe and Mail's national business correspondent Barrie McKenna has a solution to getting the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement...

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TPP

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One week only: Get a cool shirt, support Animal Justice!

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One week only! Get a cool shirt, support Animal Justice

Dear PAOV,

This week only, we’ve partnered with a charitable t-shirt company to raise much-needed funds to support our work!

The new t-shirt features our slogan Leading the legal fight for animal protection, and you can order it in a variety of v-neck, long-sleeve, women’s, and unisex shirts. Check them...

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Webinar: PR 101 and Unpacking Ranked Ballots


You're Invited! PR Campaign 101 and Unpacking Ranked Ballots Webinar

It’s an exciting time to be involved in the campaign to Make Every Vote Count! The new Liberal government has promised that 2015 was the last election using first-past-the-post. Their election platform stated:

“We will make every vote count.

We will convene an all-party Parliamentary committee to review a wide variety of reforms, such as ranked ballots, proportional representation, mandatory voting, and online voting.”

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Cat killing cop

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Where do we go from here?

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Friends,

Thank you for everything that you’ve helped us accomplish -- the last year has been a whirlwind of monumental milestones for this movement.

Now, we need your help figuring out where we go from here. Will you take 5 minutes to fill out this survey and help us set priorities for our upcoming campaigns?

We kicked 2015 off by flooding the Energy East review with applications demanding climate action. Next, we took bold, creative action to demonstrate that we, the people, are greater than the tar sands. We mobilized for the March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate -- the most diverse climate action in this country’s history -- and in the fall, we gave the Prime Minister a proper "climate welcome." Just last month, we rose up for the People’s Injunction to demand an overhaul of the broken pipeline review process.

Our movement...

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How hard is it to make ends meet?

A new Statistics Canada report shows Canada's bottom 20% of households are spending over half their budgets on food, clothing and shelter.
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http://www.pressprogress.ca/statistics_canada_bottom_20_of_households_spending_over_half_their_budgets_on_basic_necessities

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Growing Tomatoes in the Era of Free Trade

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1221 .... February 15, 2016
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Growing Tomatoes in the Era of Free Trade

John W. Warnock

Southwestern Ontario is the historic home of Canadian tomato growers. The bulk of the crop goes to processing, and since 1909 the dominant corporation had been H. J. Heinz, a food giant based in Pittsburgh. But in 2013 the Heinz Corporation was bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (26%) and 3G Capital (51%), based in Brazil. It was soon announced that they were planning to close their plant in Leamington. The story has been a snapshot of what has happened to the manufacturing industry in Ontario following the free trade agreements with the United States.

In 1988 Canadians were informed that their government, headed by Brian Mulroney, had been negotiating a free trade...

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Postal Banking: Not your Predatory Lender

LeftStreamed — Recorded in Ottawa, 26 January 2016

Postal Banking: Not your Predatory Lender

This panel discussion is a chance to learn about the many shortcomings of the existing private banking system in Canada and of the potential of a public postal bank to address them! Predatory lenders are draining money out of low-income communities; could postal banking be a public alternative?

By offering banking services through its existing network of postal outlets could Canada Post become the most accessible bank in the country and address the shortcomings of our private banking system?

Moderated by Eleanor Riley. Presentations by:

  • Amber Slegtenhorst: ACORN-Ottawa
  • John Anderson: author and researcher - “Why Canada Needs Postal Banking”
  • Geoff Bickerton: Research Director CUPW

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Here's how expensive PSE in Canada has become

Tuition fees keep soaring. Here's a break-down of some of the costs.
Please share with anyone who might be interested, thanks!
http://www.pressprogress.ca/heres_how_expensive_getting_a_post_secondary_education_in_canada_has_become

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Surprise! Undermining unions increases inequality, says IMF study

A recently published IMF study suggests decades of chipping away at unions is "strongly associated" with rising inequality
Please share with anyone who might find this interesting! Thanks!
http://www.pressprogress.ca/imf_study_decades_of_chipping_away_at_unions_is_strongly_associated_with_rising_inequality

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Just Film Festival - Friday Night Feb 12

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The TPP feels the Bern

Bernie Sanders says the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be "disastrous" for the middle-class. So remind us why Canada signed this deal again?
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http://www.pressprogress.ca/bernie_sanders_the_trans_pacific_partnership_is_a_disastrous_deal_for_the_middle_class

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ACTIVlist Update - February 12, 2016

ACTIVlist
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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Nelson chapter co-sponsors Climate Teach-In, Feb. 24
The Council of Canadians Nelson chapter is co-sponsoring the Nelson Climate Teach-in on Feb. 24.


"Clean-energy" deal does not "green NAFTA"
A CBC headline this morning trumpets, "Clean-energy deal being signed today 1st step to green NAFTA".


Victoria chapter supports rally against logging in the Walbran Valley
The Council of Canadians Victoria chapter participated in a creative demonstration on Feb. 10 in defence of...

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No one is talking about how local media is in free fall

Dear rabble readers,

Back in 1998, I posted a column on the then brand-new CBC website that questioned Canada's role in the bombing of former states of Yugoslavia. I did something too few journalists were in a position to do at the time: ask questions.

The response was enormous. My email inbox overflowed. I knew then that journalism was on the cusp of change and about to transform into something dynamic, interactive, and engaging. I realized that this was a great medium for independent progressive journalism.

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A big win for the Internet in the world's largest democracy!

INTERNET INSIDER
February 11, 2016
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NUMSA and Allies Call for Dismantling the Mineral Energy Complex in South Africa

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1220 .... February 12, 2016
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NUMSA and Allies Call for Dismantling
the ‘Mineral Energy Complex’ in South Africa

Electricity Crisis Conference Declaration

We, as representatives of trade unions that organize in the energy sector and delegates from communities that are struggling around outages, loadshedding, high electricity prices and poor quality of energy services, met for four days (June 2nd to 5th, 2015) in the midst of what we consider as a far-reaching electricity crisis in our country. As we met, on the table of the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) is an application by South Africa's electricity utility -- Eskom -- for a 25.3% increase in the price of electricity for the year 2015/16 to 2017/18. As we met, Nersa had agreed to grant municipalities an above-inflation increase...

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R&F.ca Weekly Update

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