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Quebec City Climate-Change March Draws 25,000
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By Staff, www.cbc.ca
April 12th, 2015
Above photo:A climate-change march drew about 25,000 people to the streets of Quebec City on April 11, 2015, as protesters try to encourage premiers to take a tougher stance on climate and pipeline regulations. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)
March is in advance of premiers’ summit next week.
A climate-change march drew about 25,000 people to the streets of Quebec City on Saturday, as protesters try to encourage premiers to take a tougher stance on climate and pipeline regulations.
Quebec City: Huge march raises temperature
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BY JUDY REBICK | APRIL 12, 2015
It was far and away the biggest march on climate in Canadian history. Yesterday in a wide swath of red, thousands upon thousands of people hit the streets in quiet Quebec City with a cacophony of chants, drums and quiet conversations snaking through the tiny ancient streets of the old city emerging into a park. There organizers distributed large, square red construction paper. As one, we raised our voices and our red squares forming a giant thermometer as seen from the sky. A meme instantly appeared on social media under the thermometer: "We are reaching the boiling point, so has our planet." It was a combination of genius and good organizing.
We're voting against secret police in Canada. Will you join us?
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- Published on Monday, 13 April 2015 11:00
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As Canadians learn more about what’s really included in Bill C-51, they realize this bill is reckless, dangerous, and ineffective. Join the over 110,000 people across the country who have already spoken out and demanded a stop to the government’s shredding of our Charter Rights through C-51.
We need your help, now more than ever.
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BCSEA E-News - The Premier's Green Dreams
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BCSEA is a non-profit society that relies on memberships to advance the low-carbon economy. Will you please join us?
THE PREMIER'S GREEN DREAMS
By This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. APRIL 10, 2015
Dear Diary,
OMG. Gordon Campbell, my predecessor as the Premier of British Columbia, has been appearing in my dreams. Not once, but several times.
You have a message about Animal Justices petiti
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The Historic Feminist Victories of the 1980s
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- Published on Saturday, 11 April 2015 23:34
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 31 March 2015
The Historic Feminist Victories of the 1980s on Reproductive Rights and Pay Equity: Looking Back and Forward
This forum commemorates two of the greatest achievements of the modern Canadian feminist movement, when thirty years ago, working closely together with the labour movement, the historic legislative and judicial victories on pay and workplace equity and women's reproductive rights were both won. This meeting brings two of the leading feminists who acted as the link and buckle with the labour movement in those victories of the mid-1980s together with two women activists who are engaged in a new generation of struggles on women's reproductive rights and pay and workplace equity to discuss the legacy of these victories and assess their continuing impact and relevance today.
Moderated by Leo Panitch....
Poop in the ocean
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- Published on Saturday, 11 April 2015 05:17
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Neoliberal Violence and the Mexican state
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- Published on Saturday, 11 April 2015 04:34
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 20 March 2015
Neoliberal Violence and the Mexican state:
Emerging community and class struggles
Presentations by:
- Hepzibah Munoz Martinez is professor in the History and Politics department at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John campus). She has done accompaniment work with the United Forces for Our Disappeared in Coahuila since 2012. Her blog nomorebloodinmexico.org focuses on solidarity work between Mexico and Canada in the area of human rights.
- Maria de la Luz Arriaga Lemus is professor in the Faculty of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and founder of the Tri-national Coalition in Defense of Public Education (Mexico, the United States and Canada) in 1993, and the Network for Public Education in the Americas in 1999.
- Richard Roman is associate professor emeritus in Sociology, University of Toronto,...
The Stereotype - Those Drunk Indians
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- Published on Friday, 10 April 2015 15:17
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BY EVIE RUDDY • APR 1, 2015
In the early 90s, two police officers rushed a house party in East Regina. When the officers found my partner in the basement, they shoved her into a laundry room and locked the door behind them. The female cop grabbed my partner by the collar of her shirt, pinned her against a washing machine and said, “hit me, squaw.” Another police officer stood behind them and watched as my partner, scared for her life, refused to hit the cop.
New job numbers show Stephen Harper is driving Canada's economy into a ditch
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- Published on Friday, 10 April 2015 15:17
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With the help of Erin Weir, economist for the United Steelworkers and Unifor economist Jim Stanford, we went beyond the optimistic surface numbers reported by the mainstream in today's StatsCan jobs report.
We show how the data demonstrates that the Conservatives are steering the country's economy in the wrong direction. Manufacturing is still falling, full-time jobs are down, part-time, precarious jobs are up -- and 7/10 Cdns think we are already in a recession or depression:
Please share on social media so we can help counter the surface-level way mainstream media have covered the report today:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/7-signs-stephen-harper-driving-canadian-economy-ditch
Thanks,Chris
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - April 10, 2015
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- Published on Friday, 10 April 2015 13:17
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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 Winnipeg and visits St. Norbert pipeline explosion site in La Salle River /
Énergie Est : Maude Barlow sonne l’alarme à Winnipeg et visite le lieu de l’explosion d’oléoduc sur la rivière La Salle, près de St. Norbert
Media Release: Energy East...
Toxic Bunker Fuel Washing Up on Kits Beach
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- Published on Friday, 10 April 2015 12:17
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Justice for the 43 Disappeared Mexican Students!
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- Published on Friday, 10 April 2015 09:17
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Internet Insider: C-51 education, Crull crushed, copyright extremism and more
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- Published on Friday, 10 April 2015 05:17
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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The Ultra-Political Game: Depoliticization and False Polarization in Brazil
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- Published on Thursday, 09 April 2015 23:17
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1104 .... April 10, 2015
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The Ultra-Political Game:
Depoliticization and False Polarization in Brazil
Sabrina Fernandes
In a recent essay, Alfredo Saad-Filho writes of the dilemmas the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores -- PT) now faces in Brazil. His analysis helps decipher some of the dynamics that have led to the current crisis of the PT regime and President Dilma Rousseff. This essay complements Saad-Filho's contribution by further contextualizing the radical Left in relation to the PT; and by identifying where the right-wing opposition stands (beyond its relation to the failure of the PT to maintain hegemony through neoliberal conciliation). To do so, it is important to address further the demonstrations of March 13th and 15th of this year, and to draw the line between them and the events of...
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - April 9, 2015
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- Published on Thursday, 09 April 2015 14:17
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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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Bunker oil spill in English Bay raises concerns about further spills
The Council of Canadians is warning about more oil spills on the West Coast should export pipelines like the Northern Gateway and Trans Mountain pipelines proceed after bunker fuel spilled from a cargo ship in English Bay late yesterday.
Premier McNeil, Act on Climate
Yesterday, April 8th 2015, a coalition...
PressProgress: How the Conservatives imagine Canada's economy is completely at odds with reality
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- Published on Thursday, 09 April 2015 13:17
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Good afternoon:
This one is a lot of fun - especially with the imaginative art of Finance Minister Joe Oliver. Who will sit Finance Minister Joe Oliver down and break the bad news about the economy? We did. With some help from Thursday’s OECD report -- which anticipates turning points in economic activity -- and had Canada's economy lagging behind most of the G7.
Please share on social media if you can. We pulled back the curtain on comments Harper and Oliver have both made this week:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/how-conservatives-imagine-canadas-economy-completely-odds-reality
Cheers,Chris Lackner
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