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, November 16, 2020 Cuba’s Heroic COVID Response Medical Teams Deserve Nobel Peace Prize When COVID-19 hit in 2020, Cuba responded to emergency requests for trained medical personnel by sending 53 health teams to 39 countries on four continents. The health teams were able to assist countries with fragile health systems that were ill-equipped to deal with COVID-19. Cuba was able to... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Council of Canadians Calls on Prime Minister to Invest in Public Infrastructure Projects, Not Privatization Earlier in April, the federal government announced several changes to the leadership of the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB). Michael Sabia, the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and former CEO of Caisse de dépôt et placements du Québec (CDPQ), is now Chair of the... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, February 07, 2020 Canadians Should Not Be Lulled Into Ratifying the 'New' NAFTA The trade deal is flawed: inequality would grow and the environment deteriorate further. Civil society organizations from Mexico, the United States and Canada call on Canadians and their elected representatives in Ottawa to set up a special parliamentary inquiry prior to any ratification vote on... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, December 10, 2019 New NAFTA Deal Improved, But Still Fundamentally Flawed After months of negotiations, a new NAFTA deal was reached between the U.S. Congress, Mexico and Canada. While the deal is still under wraps, it appears that some key positive changes have been made. However, the deal is more of the same, says the Council of Canadians. “We have a long way to go... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, June 27, 2019 Canadians and Americans Unite: Governor Whitmer, Stay Strong Against Enbridge’s Line 5 The Council of Canadians , Food & Water Watch , FLOW and Oil and Water Don’t Mix welcome the lawsuits filed today by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to block plans by Enbridge Inc to build a new tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac and shut down the existing 66-year-old pipelines. The Line 5... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, June 19, 2019 From Emergency to Action: New Campaign Aims To Take Green New Deal Movement to Local Communities The Council of Canadians is launching a campaign to win local Green New Deals in municipalities from coast-to-coast-to-coast. “The Green New Deal is capturing people’s imaginations and reframing the climate debate, building a groundswell of support for a major social and economic shift,” says Dylan... Read more |
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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 |