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Canada Pension Plan fuels the climate crisis with our own retirement savings

05/10/20

Author:

Patrick DeRochie & Adam Scott

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Recent analyses of CPP’s investments in oil, gas and coal raise red flags about the fund’s alignment with Canada’s climate commitments and mandate to invest in the best interests of Canadians. Photo by Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health

Last month, Mark Machin, CEO of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), wrote that climate change is the crisis beyond COVID-19 that we can’t afford to ignore, stating that “the full effects will depend on the actions we take now and in the future.”

We strongly agree.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Call to Action: Support Rent Control in Vancouver’s SRO Hotels - time sensitive

05/10/20

Author:

Democratic Socialists of Vancouver

In December 2019, Vancouver City Council passed a unanimous motion to support tying rent control to units in Vancouver’s lowest income rental stock, Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Hotels. Now we need to make sure they do that. SROs, which are 100 sq-ft rooms without kitchen or washroom facilities, are Vancouver’s housing of last resort, and rising rents there are pushing Vancouverites into homelessness.

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British Columbia

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Urban

Let’s Build a Mass Anti-Eviction Movement - Leaflet

02/10/20

Author:

Will Offley & Gene McGuckin

TEXT:

Let’s Build a

Mass Anti-Eviction Movement

First, thanks to the Vancouver Tenants Union for organizing this action.
Vancouver low-income housing has been a crisis for years. Now Covid has turned it into an utter shit show, which will get massively worse from now on – unless we and our allies prevent it.

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British Columbia

Ecosocialism

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New data shows extent of opioid crisis across Canada

01/10/20

Author:

Carl Meyer

Link:

National Observer

Jurisdictions across Canada must identify and take advantage of “life-saving programs,” says Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, shown here in March. Photo by Kamara Morozuk

October 1st 2020

One-third of the 16,364 people who died from opioid overdoses over a roughly four-year period in Canada were in British Columbia, according to new national data released Wednesday.

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British Columbia

Capitalism

Social

Message From The Future II: The Years of Repair

01/10/20

Author:

The Leap

Oct. 1, 2020

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The Politics That Led to the “Worst Debate”

01/10/20

Author:

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor

Link:

Black Agenda Report

The Politics That Led to the “Worst Debate”

01 Oct 2020

The incoherence of the Biden-Trump debate will be repeated every election cycle until Blacks and progressives break with the corporate duopoly.

“There is nothing smart or ‘strategic’ about falling for the same trick every election cycle.”

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Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy’s changes with eye on election

30/09/20

Author:

Jacob Bogage

Link:

Washinton Post

September 29, 2020

Many USPS employees see recent cost-cutting changes that have slowed mail delivery as violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the law.

[See video at link.]

This summer, as controversial new procedures at the U.S. Postal Service snarled the nation’s mail delivery and stirred fears of how the agency would handle the election, rank-and-file workers quietly began to resist.

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COVID-19 and Class Struggle in France

30/09/20

Author:

Susan Ram

Link:

The Bullet

September 29, 2020

How are French workers responding to the multiple challenges posed by a resurgent COVID-19, a neoliberal government incapable of getting to grips with the crisis, and the limitations imposed by the public health emergency on traditional forms of mass protest?

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New revelations of RCMP online mass surveillance raise troubling privacy, civil liberties concerns

30/09/20

Author:

ICLMG

Link:

ICLMG

RCMP must immediately halt use of new spy software and release audit of surveillance practices, says civil liberties coalition

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Canada

Protest - Revolt

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BC Ecosocialists Party Leader Stuart Parker Out after Transphobia Allegations

30/09/20

Author:

Katie Hyslop

Link:

The Tyee

Sept. 23, 2020

In wake of the controversy, federal Green leadership candidate Meryam Haddad is kicked out of the race and then reinstated by party.

Stuart Parker resigned as interim leader of the fledging BC Ecosocialists Party late Tuesday evening after recent social media comments that were denounced as transphobic.

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Social

Many USPS employees see recent cost-cutting changes that have slowed mail delivery as violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the law.

Sept. 23, 2020

In wake of the controversy, federal Green leadership candidate Meryam Haddad is kicked out of the race and then reinstated by party.

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