Council of Canadians
Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s leading social action organization, mobilizing a network of 60 chapters across the country.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Monday, October 01, 2018 NAFTA 2.0 Curtails Chapter 11, But Doesn’t Meet Smell Test In response to the new NAFTA deal revealed last night, now called the USMCA free trade agreement, the Council of Canadians says that while Chapter 11 (the investor state dispute settlement provision) has changed, the agreement is still far away from a deal that protects people and the environment... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, June 01, 2018 Kinder Morgan Whistleblower Disrupts Trudeau at FCM Meeting in Halifax A piercing whistle interrupted Justin Trudeau’s speech at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in Halifax on Friday . “Justin Trudeau has made me an unwilling shareholder in the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, currently owned by Kinder Morgan,” says whistleblower and Council of Canadians... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, May 29, 2018 Buying Kinder Morgan A Losing Gamble, Says Council of Canadians The Council of Canadians is available for comment on the Trudeau government’s announcement that it will buy the controversial Kinder Morgan pipeline for $4.5 billion. “Trudeau is taking a big gamble and he’s going to lose. The public doesn’t back a Big Oil buyout, on the ground resistance will... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 17, 2018 NAFTA Fuelling Climate Change in North America As NAFTA negotiations close in on an agreement in principle, a new tri-national report by leading Canadian, Mexican and American economists has found that NAFTA’s existing regulations prevent Canada from reducing almost 1500 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. This would nix any chance Canada... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, March 26, 2018 Trudeau Breaking Another Electoral Reform Promise Not only has Prime Minister Trudeau broken his promise that 2015 would be the last First-Past-The-Post election, now the government is breaking its promise to undo former Prime Minister Harper’s so-called Fair Elections Act. One of the clearest and earliest commitments in the 2015 Liberal election... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, January 17, 2018 ‘Trump Not Welcome’ Petition Reaches 10,000 Signatures In Four Days A new online petition to keep Trump out of Canada has already gathered over 10,000 signatures since it was launched on Saturday by the Council of Canadians. “This overwhelming response is sending a strong message that Trump’s racist, misogynist, vulgar and dangerous words and actions are not... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, October 26, 2017 Council of Canadians Calls Nestlé Out For "Blue-Washing" The Council of Canadians is challenging bottled water giant Nestlé for its plans to certify sites as sustainable in Canada and around the world. Yesterday, Nestlé announced it was planning to certify 20 factories with the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) in Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, October 16, 2017 From NAFTA 1.0 to NAFTA 2.0, Council of Canadians’ Maude Barlow Outlines a NAFTA Renegotiation Agenda For The Rest Of Us NAFTA renegotiations continue today in Arlington, Virginia. To shed light on the issues, the Council of Canadians today released Getting It Right: A People’s Guide to NAFTA , by Maude Barlow, its honorary chairperson and veteran NAFTA critic. It explains in plain language what’s at stake in the... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, October 06, 2017 Flint Water Summit Participants Vow to End Nestlé’s Water Takings Sixteen water protector groups along with local residents, Indigenous representatives and activists attended the Water Is Life: Strengthening the Great Lakes Commons in Flint this past weekend. Attendees pledged to challenge Nestlé’s water takings and end the water crises in Flint, Detroit and... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, October 05, 2017 Diverse Groups Opposed to Energy East Celebrate Project's Cancellation After four years of fighting to stop the proposed pipeline project, a network of environmental groups, First Nations, students, faith and local groups along the proposed route say Canadians, and people around the world, should feel relieved that TransCanada has cancelled Energy East. “Today is a... Read more |