The Trump Administration has vowed to dismantle many of the environmental protections that we fought hard to win. In fact on the same day as Rex Tillerson was confirmed as Secretary of State, the House of Commons voted to overturn a rule that requires require publicly traded oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose any payments that they made to foreign governments, including taxes and royalties.
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Brisbane – Walking around Brisbane today after the G20 Leaders’ Summit, there is little physical evidence that the meeting ever took place. The security barriers have gone, the banners taken down, and everyone is back at work after enjoying an extra public holiday. But what about the decisions taken by the G20 leaders last weekend? Will their impacts be just as transitory?
Brisbane -- G20 Leaders who met in Brisbane, Australia on the 15 and 16 of November need to focus on the real issues that matter for the world. This means they need to tackle rising inequality head-on or risk leaving millions of people trapped in poverty. They also need to ensure they are all doing their fair share to tackle the Ebola crisis.
The G20 brings together the world's major advanced and emerging economies, represents 90 per cent of global GDP, 80 per cent of global trade and two-thirds of the world's population. It's a powerful group, and its efforts to boost growth and fix the global tax system are important and needed.
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SodaStream, the now infamous maker of soda machines, has found itself a new brand ambassador. Perhaps not as affable as Scarlet Johansson, Minister Jason Kenney has seemingly volunteered to be the new face of the company. He publicly intervened in the ongoing debacle between charity Oxfam and SodaStream by staging a "buycott" in support of the corporation. This outrageous gesture by a public official is appalling and antithetical to Canada's foreign policy; it serves as a tacit approval of Israel's illegal settlement enterprise.
Our food system, as Oxfam's new report Growing A Better Future: Food justice in a resource-constrained world attests, is broken.
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