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Press Release, Grand Council of the Crees, August 9 2012
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Press Release, Grand Council of the Crees, August 9 2012. Waskaganish, Eeyou Istchee, (August 9, 2012) ---The James Bay Cree Nation has declared a Permanent Moratorium on uranium exploration, uranium mining and uranium waste emplacement in Eeyou Istchee, the James Bay Cree territory. The permanent moratorium was enacted unanimously by the Annual Cree Nation General Assembly in Waskaganish.
http://www.gcc.ca/newsarticle.php?id=281
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Enbridge suffers new oil leak, shuts key pipeline
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Enbridge suffers new oil leak, shuts key pipelineBy Jeffrey Jones CALGARY | Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:53pm EDT (Reuters) - Canada's Enbridge Inc. said an oil spill in Wisconsin had forced it to shut down part of the main pipeline system delivering Canadian crude to U.S. refiners on Friday, a fresh blow for a firm already facing fierce criticism from regulators. Almost two years
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Nexus Oil Deal
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Why in the world are we even thinking about doing business with China.. We cannot do business with China and retain any humanitarian credibility in the free world. The world cannot keep adding to the carbon content of the planet. Yes Canada is not the whole world but we do have control of how much carbon we allow to be extracted from our soil. Carbon caps at the extraction points are the only practical method of containing the problem. The further from the points of extraction we try to control emissions, the more difficult the problem is to control.
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Premiers in Halifax: Health care not warfare: Precaution, Prevention and Priorities- Framing Canadian Health Care
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Premiers in Halifax: Health care not warfare: Precaution, Prevention and Priorities
Joan Russow PhD Global Compliance Research Project
This week , the leaders of Canada’s provinces and territories will be meeting in Halifax to hopefully counter Harper's misplaced spending priorities such as on increased military spending, The Harper government has not only been planing on buying F35s, and working to establish foreign military outposts but also increasingly engaging in military exercises such as the most recent RIMPAC exercise. The premiers should build on the international support for the Mayors for Peace initiative which has challenged military spending.
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Ottawa to stop monitoring trans fats
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Ottawa to stop monitoring trans fats BY SARAH SCHMIDT, POSTMEDIA NEWS JULY 20, 2012
OTTAWA – Health Canada has rejected the advice of its own advisory panel of food experts to renew monitoring of trans-fat levels in processed foods and send a “strong signal” to companies that regulations are on the table if levels don’t drop.
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Robocalls applications will proceed
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Robocalls applications will proceed
Sack Goldblatt Mitchell Thursday, Jul 19, 2012
Electors in seven ridings across the country have launched legal applications under the Canada Elections Act to challenge the results of the May 2, 2011 federal general election. The applications take aim at the misdirecting “robocalls” that thousands of individuals across Canada received in the days leading up to the election. The applications reveal a common and disturbing pattern of voter suppression that took place across the country during the election.
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| · | Seniors Worse Off Under Harper Government |
| · | Scientists take aim at Harper cuts with ‘death of evidence’ protest on Parliament Hill |
| · | Canada's PM Stephen Harper faces revolt by scientists |
| · | Adrian Dix: It's time the B.C. government took a stand on the Enbridge pipeline |
| · | Enbridge executive’s company awarded first crime Bill C-10 $38.5-million prison project |
| · | Failure of Northern Gateway pipeline could cost taxpayers, former insurance executive warns |
| · | Most Canadians are at odds with the Harper government's firm stance against marijuana decriminalization, a new poll finds. |
| · | Former Conservative cabinet minister Jim Prentice issues a veiled warning to Stephen Harper |
| · | Oh Canada: the government's broad assault on the environment |
| · | Canada Day 2012:: 99 Reasons to Not Celebrate |
| · | Council of Canadians calls Conservative robocalls motion defamatory and abusive |
| · | Budget bill should be called the Lobbyists’ Bill, it’s a gift for oil and gas lobbyists |
| · | Experts tell conference Canada's Constitution is a confusing mess of written and unwritten rules that allows for abuses by Prime Minister and premiers and their Cabinets |
| · | Major Alberta Oil Pipeline Spills, 2006-2012 |
| · | Harper’s new enemy: conservatives |
| · | Canada's warrantless surveillance bill is back, and bigger than ever, with surveillance powers for US gov't, too |
| · | Harper’s autocracy; in Canada there are no longer any checks and balances to His power |
| · | abuses pile up: the PM hunkers down |
| · | Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair rejects complaints that his caucus is anti-Israel |
| · | The Religion Factor in Canada's Environmental Politics |
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| · | Budget cut overkill? Canada axes entire marine pollution program |
| · | s try to shut down election lawsuits in seven ridings |
| · | RCMP ‘to ease Canadians into the idea’ of U.S. agents in Canada |
| · | Looking forward to a PEACEful retirement? |
| · | Adrian Dix ramps up pipeline battle |
| · | Hydro awash in private power B.C. Producers running flat out |
| · | First Nations to Enbridge: 'The war is on' |
| · | Enbridge AGM: Police out in full force at giant energy company’s annual general meeting |
| · | Vancity, Enbridge under pressure from enviros at annual meetings this week |
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| · | Ethical Oil: David Suzuki Foundation Should Be Investigated Over "political ans Partisan Activity |
| · | Conservatives have destroyed Joint Review Panel's credibility, Nathan Cullen |
| · | Press conference; SOS On-to-Ottawa Bicycle Trek |
| · | One woman's struggle to save B.C.'s wild salmon |
| · | Mild spring, fair winds flood Ottawa with butterflies |
| · | Robocalls probe extends to Tory headquarters |
| · | 30th Anniversary of the Charter of Rights and freedoms; Omissions Failures and Rebuffs |
| · | Elections Canada keeps rulings secret on 2,982 complaints since 1997 |
| · | Science for profit: Conservatives target the National Research Council |
| · | CDAI- a "charitable" organization and CADSI, a"non-profit" organization promote and lobby for militarism |
| · | An organization (CDA) promotes militarism is "charitable' and the Canadian Association of Defence and Security industries is a "non-profit' |
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Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians, says seven Conservative MPs whose 2011 election wins are being challenged in Federal Court by a group backed by her organization want to see a $250,000 deposit on costs in case the challengers lose. (Juan Karita/Associated Press)
The Public Works secretariat now tasked with reporting back on its review of the costs associated with the federal government's planned F-35 fighter jet purchase missed its June deadline. Now a revised tender for audit services appears to further delay its work. (Lockheed Martin handout)
Canadian churches are raising environmental concerns over the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, which would run from Alberta to the Douglas Channel in Kitimat, B.C. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)
