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Action: Help uphold the rights of Secwepemc land defenders at the annual meeting for the Trans Mountain pipeline

01/11/20

Author:

Brent Patterson - PBI

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October 31, 2020

Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination more than 50 years ago on October 14, 1970.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention.

In December 2019, the Committee called on Canada to “immediately cease construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project … until free, prior and informed consent is obtained from all the Secwepemc people.”

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Canada Needs to Get Serious About Taxing the Rich

01/11/20

Author:

Alex Hemingway

Link:

Jacobin Magazine

The wealth of Canada’s richest twenty billionaires has ballooned by more than $37 billion since the March 2020 lockdown came into effect. (Unsplash)

Oct. 30, 2020

Like their counterparts everywhere, Canada’s superrich cream off wealth from the working class while resisting paying taxes. In the age of COVID-19, this state of affairs is more obscene — and more unpopular — than ever. It’s time to tax Canada's rich.

Canada needs to get serious about taxing the rich to reverse the rise of extreme inequality, blunt the concentration of economic and political power, and create ongoing streams of revenue to fund badly-needed public services.

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Federal judge tosses youth climate case against Ottawa

01/11/20

Author:

Alastair Sharp

Link:

National Observer

A Canadian judge has rejected a youth legal challenge to Ottawa's climate policies. Photo by Pixabay via Pexels

October 27th 2020

The young climate activists challenging Ottawa’s climate policies will not get to lay out their case in Federal Court, a justice said on Tuesday, striking a blow to efforts to litigate for tougher action sought in massive street protests.

Justice Michael Manson rejected the 15 youths’ legal challenge, agreeing with a government motion to strike, saying their claims that government climate policy had hurt them was too broad a question for the courts to consider.

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Canada

Climate Change

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Federal agency orders Trans Mountain to halt use of trench boxes after worker killed in Edmonton

01/11/20

Author:

Phil Heidenreich

Link:

Global News

See video here.

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Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. appears ready to frack near San Martin and Puerto Wilches in Colombia

01/11/20

Author:

Brent Patterson

Link:

Peace Brigades International-Canada

Photo of the blockade of the Picoplata 1 exploration field in the ConocoPhillips/Canacol Energy VMM-2 block in September 2016 from Semana Sostenible.

October 29, 2020

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Trans Mountain expansion hits snag, must re-start drilling beneath Thompson River in Kamloops

01/11/20

Author:

James Peters

Link:

CFJC Today

Oct 29, 2020

KAMLOOPS — Trans Mountain (TMX) has had a major setback in its expansion project through Kamloops.

The pipeline twinning includes a segment beneath the Thompson River that must be installed after Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is completed.

In a statement emailed to CFJC Today, Trans Mountain says installation of the pipe in the segment beneath the river encountered “technical challenges” that require the entire HDD process to be restarted.

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Exploitation of migrant care workers has increased since COVID-19 struck, report says

30/10/20

Author:

CBC News

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CBC News

Oct 28, 2020

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Ecosocialism: The Strategic Debate

30/10/20

Author:

Socialist Resistance

Link:

The Bullet

[Editor: This article raises some important questions (in spite of a number of grammatical errors and typos!)]

October 30, 2020 • Socialist Resistance

Those of us who inhabit planet Earth in the 21st century face a huge problem. Our own species, homo sapiens (modern humans), are trashing the planet at an ever increasing and more destructive rate.

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Biden’s just Trump with a human face, and the two of them share the same enemy

29/10/20

Author:

Slavoj Zizek

Link:

rt.com

Trump & Biden - FILE PHOTOS. © Getty Images / Spencer Platt; Getty Images / Alex Wong

27 Oct, 2020

One of the most thought-provoking articles I’ve read about the unfolding conflicts in the US and elsewhere – maybe everywhere. - Gene McGuckin

The threat of violence erupting over the US election result next week is exposing the limits of liberal democracy, and both candidates’ rejection of left-wing ‘extremists’ is liberal opportunism at its worst.

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Sharmarke Dubow champions climate justice, mitigation through community

29/10/20

Author:

Patricia Lane

Link:

National Observer

Victoria Coun. Sharmarke Dubow gives Maasai visitors a tour of city hall. Photo submitted by Sharmarke Dubow

October 29th 2020

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Victoria Coun. Sharmarke Dubow.

The 1990s were personally tough for me. I spent the decade immersed in action based on climate catastrophe science, trying, and by all accounts failing, to stem the tide. Hardest of all, death and dementia came to my family.

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Like their counterparts everywhere, Canada’s superrich cream off wealth from the working class while resisting paying taxes. In the age of COVID-19, this state of affairs is more obscene — and more unpopular — than ever. It’s time to tax Canada's rich.

One of the most thought-provoking articles I’ve read about the unfolding conflicts in the US and elsewhere – maybe everywhere. - Gene McGuckin

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