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A holiday giving guide for activists

A Canadian activist guide to fight for food, shelter, the environment and peace this holiday.

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A fierce holiday giving guide to build a better future
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A fierce holiday giving guide to build a better future
By
Maya Bhullar
| December 16, 2016

A few weeks ago I was interviewing Cathy Elliott for an upcoming Activist Toolkit blog about the DAREarts' First Roots Aboriginal Program. At the end of the interview, she offered us the gift of the following words:

"What can I offer activists? For a long time now I have been saying that the time for 'pretty words' is over, it is time for collective action and I mean everybody in Canada has to work together to make this work. It is going to take generations. It took generations to get us here and it is going to take generations to get us out of this mess that we are in.

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Trudeau government to decide this week on Enbridge's massive pipeline project
By
Brent Patterson
| November 21, 2016

The Trudeau government will make a major pipeline decision this week. By Nov. 25, it will have to rule on the massive $7.5-billion Line 3 pipeline to the U.S.

An approval by the federal government would allow Enbridge to build 1,600 kilometres of new pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Superior Wisconsin. The original Line 3 was built in 1968 and is nearing the end of its serviceability.

 “The old pipeline will be decommissioned and left underground while a new larger pipeline is installed," Metro News reported.  

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CETA's forgotten impact on Roma refugees from EU countries

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CETA between Canada and the EU is on life support. Media wrongly call the resisting Belgian region tiny, while everybody has forgotten the Roma, whom Canada has massively deported.

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CETA has bigger problems than not-so-'tiny'-after-all Wallonia
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Karl Nerenberg
| October 25, 2016

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The Council of Canadians is exultant about the potential demise of a Canada/EU trade agreement.

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Maude Barlow talks with David Suzuki about her new book, 'Boiling Point'

October 4, 2016
| Maude Barlow was in Vancouver on Sept. 29 to celebrate the launch of her latest book "Boiling Point" about Canada's water crisis. She shared the stage with scientist and activist David Suzuki.
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More than 50 groups urge Trudeau to stop pipeline reviews and overhaul NEB
September 8, 2016 |
More than 50 groups have sent a letter to Trudeau and Minister Carr urging the government to overhaul the National Energy Board before it decides how to proceed with the two proposed oil pipelines.
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CETA leaves bad taste on food safety
September 1, 2016 |
While debate rages in Europe about CETA, the Canada-EU trade agreement, a new report warns that the deal could lower food safety standards.
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The politically hip Gord Downie
August 22, 2016 |
Water protection, health care, pipeline opposition, Indigenous solidarity, prisoner rights, and more. Gord Downie is far more than a musician.
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Mel Hurtig, a great Canadian -- and, full of beans, as we used to say
By
David J. Climenhaga
| August 4, 2016

I only met Mel Hurtig once -- he invited me to breakfast at a golf club in his native Edmonton and interrogated me in knowledgeable detail about Conrad Black's role in the Calgary Herald strike. There didn't seem to be very much he'd missed.

Brief though our acquaintance was, he certainly left a memorable impression and I think of him pretty well every time I drive past the Royal Mayfair Golf Club on my way to or from the University of Alberta.

The man struck me then -- as he seems to have struck many people who knew him much better than I did -- as being full of beans, as we used to say, and which was always meant as a compliment.

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