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Internet Insider: C-51 in the Senate, Facebooknet and Saving the Link
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- Published on Friday, 08 May 2015 12:00
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INTERNET INSIDER
May 8th, 2015
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WTF [coalalert] Andrew Weaver says coal may be greener than we thought
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https://soundcloud.com/cbcvictoria/andrew-weaver-says-coal-may-be-greener-than-we-thought
THE LINK TO THE PODCAST IS ABOVE
City to Introduce New On-Street Parking Ambassadors - Joint Media Release, City of Victoria and CUPE Local 50
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Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
For Immediate Release
VICTORIA, BC – Building on recent improvements to how the City provides parking services, a new on-street parking ambassador model is being introduced, bringing what has traditionally been a contracted enforcement model, in-house under the City’s customer service fold. Parking availability and a positive parking experience is essential to supporting an active and vibrant downtown, and specifically the needs of Victoria's downtown businesses and the tourism sector.
App Developed By Teenager Can Scrutinize Election Contestants
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By Waqas on May 5, 2015
Votr is an app that uses your postcode to organize tweets of UK candidate and offers you to swipe just like the Tinder dating app.
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Theyre Sunk: First Nation Declares Emergency as B
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ICTMN Staff 5/5/15
First they were removed to the far end of a peninsula. Then they were cut off when an aqueduct was built to carry drinking water to Winnipeg, making the peninsula an island. Now their ferry has failed inspection, and they’re sunk.
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Let the business scare tactics begin in Alberta
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- Published on Thursday, 07 May 2015 18:15
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http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/video-financial-analysts-fear-apocalypse-alberta-heres-why-theyre-wrong
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Notley must fix the voting system: Fair Vote Canada
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Notley must fix the voting system: Fair Vote Canada 
After an election in which 798,000 votes went nowhere, Rachel Notley has a golden opportunity to bring a more democratic voting system to Alberta.
“Proportional representation is a long-time policy of the Alberta NDP,” said Yared Mehzenta, spokesperson for Fair Vote Canada’s Edmonton Chapter. “We call on the premier-elect to act on electoral reform.”
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - May 7, 2015
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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 www.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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WIN! Proposed hazardous waste facility on the Fraser River stopped
The Council of Canadians Chilliwack chapter has been organizing against the proposed Aevitas Inc. hazardous waste recycling site since the chapter was founded earlier this year.
Township west of Ottawa sells land for Energy East pipeline pumping station
Horton is a township located about 100 kilometres west of Ottawa at the confluence of...Theses on Podemos and the 'Democratic Revolution' in Spain
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1113 .... May 7, 2015
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Theses on Podemos and
the ‘Democratic Revolution’ in Spain
Raul Zelik
(Translation by Eric Canepa)
Even if one almost always goes wrong with such prognoses, the fact is that the Spanish state is facing the biggest rupture since the end of the Franco dictatorship. In several large cities, the left radical-democratic lists of the Guanyem / Ganemos Initiatives have real chances of winning the mayoral elections in May. In recent months in Catalonia, millions were on the street calling for the democratic right to self-determination, to which Madrid could only answer with new prohibitions. But it is above all the left party Podemos (We Can) that is dominating Spain's political landscape. According to some current polls, Podemos, though founded only in January 2014, is the...
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Special Alberta Election Edition
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I grew up in Edmonton and I never thought this would happen. Ever.
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 May 2015 15:15
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Friends,
We’ve said before that the oil price shock could lead to profound shifts, and last night Canada got its first real taste of what that could look like.
I grew up in Edmonton, and I never thought I'd get to do this: write you all an email the day after Alberta elected a party that pledged to pull support from the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipelines. Plus a premier who, in her victory speech, stated that “it is time to diversify our economy and end this boom and bust cycle in Alberta.”
I'm proud of my home province, but the Alberta election -- like a lot of big political shifts -- could change everything and nothing at the same time. Right now, the tar sands are still on track to break Canada’s climate commitments, the federal government’s head remains in the sands on climate, and the fossil fuel industry’s power in...
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - May 6, 2015
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 May 2015 14:00
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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 www.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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MEDIA RELEASE: Go vote! Ottawa next in line for cross-country public forum
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Anti-Fracking bill under attack from Ontario Gas interests
Ontario MPP Peter Tabuns’ anti-fracking private members bill is getting a surprising amount of backlash...
Brazil: Fundamentalist missionary accused of 'enslaving' isolated Indians - News from Survival
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - May 5, 2015
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 May 2015 13:45
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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 www.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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Council of Canadians sponsors ultra-marathoner's cross-country run for water protection
The Council of Canadians is helping to sponsor Caribou Legs, an Indigenous ultra-marathon runner, to run the 4800 kilometres from Vancouver to Ottawa to highlight the waterways across this country that are under threat from pipelines, fracking, mining and extreme energy projects.
Council of Canadians to challenge Fair Elections Act in...
[coalalert] GOODWIN'S WAY DOCUMENTARY TRAILER
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Here’s the link to the latest trailer for the documentary Goodwin’s Way. https://www.facebook.com/GoodwinsWay/videos/vb.464464453643562/803306349759369/?type=2&theater
Here’s the plot line: Hero. Deserter. Revolutionary. Martyr. Legend. A century after he was gunned down by police under mysterious circumstances, Albert "Ginger" Goodwin continues to provoke controversy in Cumberland, British Columbia.
Supporters of the labour leader argue the Liberal government's removal of highway signs bearing his name is an attempt to undermine Goodwin's legacy of solidarity and the ideals of equality and self-determination for which he fought and died. His critics, meanwhile, dismiss him as a lawbreaker, a draft-dodger and an agitator.
Shaped by strikes on both sides of the Atlantic and an abiding sense of justice, Goodwin was catapulted into the Northwest’s most contentious worker...
Urge feds to say yes to "sustainable diet"
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