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PP: The hard facts on minimum wage
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Please feel free to share this PressProgress news post from late yesterday that packages some startling data from the Canadian Labour Congress' new report on minimum wage in Canada.
5 things you don't know about minimum wage workers in Canada: Why raise the minimum wage? How about because "minimum and low wage jobs [are] becoming the norm"? Or that 35% of Canadians earning under $15 per hour are over 40?
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/5-things-you-dont-know-about-minimum-wage-workers-canada
Thanks,Chris
ITUC Newsletter 59: May Day, End Corporate Greed Campaign.. Latest News from the ITUC
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- Published on Friday, 17 April 2015 01:34
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How is your province acting on climate?
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- Published on Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:17
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - April 16, 2015
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- Published on Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:51
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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:
Canadian mining company threatens El Salvador's water
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Ontario: the province that never learns
“We must send the message to all political parties that our health is not for sale.”
London chapter calls for $15 minimum wage
The Council of Canadians London chapter chapter supports a higher minimum wage for working people.
C-51 sparks KI First Nation to...
Saving America's Pollinators Act is back!
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- Published on Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:17
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The Politics of Human Rights
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 April 2015 22:34
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1106 .... April 16, 2015
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The Politics of Human Rights
David Camfield
There has never been more talk about human rights than there is today. Social media is full of calls to sign petitions or send e-mails about human rights causes. Almost no one says they're not supporters of human rights, from radicals on the left to people on the hard right like Stephen Harper. Governments of Western countries justify war in the name of defending human rights. We now have a Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
Defending human rights is necessary. But championing human rights is a completely inadequate way of responding to the biggest crises of our times: the ecological crisis -- above all, climate change -- and socio-economic crises.
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - April 15, 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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MEDIA RELEASE:
Modi visit: Council of Canadians deeply concerned about potential free trade agreement with India
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Harper &
Modi announce a Canada-India 'free trade' agreement by September
Efforts are being stepped up to conclude a Canada-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) by September, just prior to the October 19 federal election.
Blue Planet Projects opposes Veolia in South Korea
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Canada, it's time to step into history. The plan for July:
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 April 2015 12:17
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Friends,
Over the past few years, a movement has taken root in Canada.
It started with the leadership of Indigenous communities in Alberta, who experience the worst of tar sands pollution, and has expanded everywhere that tar sands pipelines have been proposed (as well as plenty of places far from pipeline routes).
Now, Canada is at a crossroads. We face a choice between expanding the tar sands beyond our climate limit, or committing to a just transition away from fossil fuels and towards a new, clean energy economy. It’s a choice that we think Canada is ready to make. Just last weekend, 25,000 people marched for that new economy in Quebec City -- and this summer we’re going to take on the tar sands across the entire country.
For 3 days at the beginning of July, we'll show that at this moment in history, the people who want change represent a power greater than anything...
Read more: Canada, it's time to step into history. The plan for July:
Urgent Action: Make a stand for an open and free West Papua
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 April 2015 10:34
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We help tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.
Urgent Action
End 50 years of isolation in West Papua
Please join Survival at a demonstration outside the Indonesian Embassy in London to demand free and open access to West Papua.
The demonstration, organised by Tapol and Survival will be held at 12pm on April 29, 2015.
Join us to call on the Indonesian government to allow free and open access to West Papua for international journalists, humanitarian agencies and human rights organisations. Until Indonesia lifts the repressive restrictions on access to Papua, Indonesian soldiers and police will continue to kill, arrest and torture Papuan tribal people with impunity.
- Place: Indonesian Embassy, 38...
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Health disaster strikes recently contacted Indians in Brazil - News from Survival
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:17
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - April 14, 2015
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 April 2015 13:34
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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 opposes the Energy East pipeline in Regina
The Council of Canadians held a public forum in Regina last night in opposition to the Energy East pipeline.Likelihood of Canada-India FIPA & CEPA said to be slim
The Council of Canadians is warning against Stephen Harper's agenda of 'investor protection' and 'free trade' agreements with India.What Comes Next?
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Friends,
This past weekend I was marching in Quebec City with over 25,000 people to tell Canada's premiers that they can’t be climate leaders and expand the tar sands. Thousands more across the country -- like you! -- signed on to our petition echoing that message. Tonight, we will be sending it to all of Canada's provincial leaders.
Right now, we don't know much about where the premiers' climate deal is going. Key premiers like Jim Prentice from Alberta and Christy Clark from BC are skipping this climate summit tomorrow, and we know that Ontario and Quebec are signing a deal on carbon pricing.
But whatever the premiers announce, what we do know for sure is that there is a powerful, growing movement across the country that will keep telling provincial and federal leaders that real climate action...
Brazil: Blood samples returned to Yanomami after nearly 50 years - News from Survival
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 April 2015 04:17
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Bolivia's Voters Reaffirm 'Process of Change'
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- Published on Monday, 13 April 2015 22:34
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1105 .... April 14, 2015
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Bolivia’s Voters Reaffirm ‘Process of Change’ But Issue Warnings to the Governing MAS
Richard Fidler
Up to 90 per cent of the electorate voted in Bolivia's "subnational" elections March 29 for governors, mayors and departmental assembly and municipal council members throughout the country. These were the second such elections to be held since the new Constitution came into force in 2009, the first being in 2010.
The Movement for Socialism (MAS) once again emerged as the only party with national representation -- by far the major political force in Bolivia, and far ahead of the opposition parties, none of which has a significant presence in all nine departments. However, in some key contests the voters rebuffed the MAS candidates, most notably for governor in La...
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - April 13, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 13 April 2015 13:34
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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:
Energy East pipeline: Maude Barlow raises alarm in Swift Current
Media Release: Energy East pipeline: Maude Barlow raises alarm in Moose Jaw
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Support the campaign to get Veolia out of Daegu-Gyeonbuk!
Action Alert
The 2015 World Water Forum is being held this week...
Bill C-377 is at Senate committee next week
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- Published on Monday, 13 April 2015 11:51
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As you may know, the anti-labour Bill C-377 is back on the Senate's agenda next week.
Here is an opinions piece authored by the Institute's Executive Director Rick Smith, published today at nationalnewswatch.com.
http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2015/04/13/harper-government-continues-attack-on-labour-rights/#.VSvyQfnF-ao
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Thousands March In Canada To Call For Action On Climate Change
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BY KATIE VALENTINE POSTED ON APRIL 12, 2015 AT 10:55 AM
Canadians march for climate action in Quebec City on Saturday, April 11, 2015.
CREDIT: ROBERT VAN WAARDEN/GREENPEACE
Thousands of Canadians took to the streets of Quebec City, Quebec on Saturday to call on their country to curb tar sands growth take action to address the threat of climate change.
CREDIT: ROBERT VAN WAARDEN/GREENPEACE
The march, which was organized by the environmental and social coalition Act on Climate, drew about 25,000 participants from across Canada, including representatives from First Nations, environmental groups, unions, and student groups. The protesters’ march comes a few days before Canada plans to host a provincial summit on climate change in Quebec City, during which the country’s premiers will discuss their plans in the lead-up to the U.N. climate talks this November in Paris.
Read more: Thousands March In Canada To Call For Action On Climate Change
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