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Canadian marchers push back against Trump; politicians get on his train
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Karl Nerenberg
| January 24, 2017

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Last week, the scowling man, south of the border, who quite decisively lost the popular vote but nonetheless snookered a victory in his country's Electoral College, said:

"For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost."

And then he added:

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WINGS
WINGS

Nanotechnology: Too late to regulate?

March 28, 2016
| In this interview, Ilise Feitshans describes how nanotechnology is rewriting the rules of chemistry and calls for internationally harmonized regulation and an informed public.
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British Columbia's lax LNG regulations a disaster waiting to happen
By
Elizabeth May
| March 23, 2016

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British Columbians need to have a say on the provincial government's commitment to link the province's economic future to a very large bet on LNG. The total number of plants currently proposed for B.C. approach in volume the entire current global capacity.

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Redeye

Police dogs leading cause of injury by police in B.C.

December 19, 2014
| Last month new provincial regulations were established to help reduce the incidents and severity of police dog bites. Pivot Legal has been gathering statistics on police dog injuries for some time.
Length: 10:39 minutes (9.77 MB)
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CETA: Putting corporations ahead of Canadians

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By sheer coincidence, the media has recently been filled with stories that reflect the parallel universes we seem to be living in. The first were the stories about the international climate summit and the huge climate march (and hundreds of smaller ones) that preceded it -- punctuated by the launch of Naomi Klein's powerful call-to-action book This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate adding to the power of the moment.

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CETA: All power to the oil companies

Photo: flickr/Stephen Harper
Just as governments need to get deadly serious about reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, with CETA they are tying their own hands through new restrictions on their right to regulate.

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CETA: Putting corporations ahead of Canadians
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Bill C-21, the Red Tape Reduction Act: Fewer regulations, fewer inspections
February 26, 2014 |
It’s time for the government to start listening to Canadians who are clearly asking for more oversight, not less.
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Parliamentary review of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act abruptly terminated
December 8, 2011 |
The House of Commons Environment and Sustainable Development Committee has apparently been told to abandon half-way the job that it is legally required to do.
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A positive role for government
By
Trish Hennessy
| February 22, 2011

Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a primer I wrote about the quiet erosion of regulations in Canada.

I had never anticipated wanting to write about such an innocuous topic but a series of focus group sessions made me look at regulation — and the role government has to play — in a whole new light.
The focus group research taught me that when it comes to regulation, Canadians trust their government is on the job.

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Weekly Mulch: Coal ash in our stockings
By
Sarah Laskow
| December 25, 2010

It's the naughty children who get coal in their stockings, and it seems like Americans must have been naughty this year. Because across the country, we're awash with coal, carcinogens, and other toxins. And our government is not doing to much to change that.

Waste not

After the massive coal ash spill in Tennessee two years ago, the EPA began working on more stringent regulation of the waste, a byproduct of coal mining. But, as Kate Sheppard reports at Mother Jones, the industry has been pressuring the administration to adopts weaker regulations than it could.

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