March Against Monsanto The Deets:

The Deets:

Saturday May 25, 2013

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

St. James Park (King and Jarvis)

Toronto, ON 

The Call Out:

Fwd:

ATTN: ALL MARCHERS.  PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION.
THANK YOU.
Millions Against Monsanto Toronto

On May 25, 2013, Torontonians and activists in more than 250 locations around the world will unite to MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO. 

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The Federal Court has found in no uncertain terms that widespread election fraud took place during the 2011 federal election. The ruling clearly states that "there was an orchestrated effort to suppress votes during the 2011 election campaign by a person with access to the [Conservative Party's] CIMS database."

Last year, the metallic ring of spoons, spatulas and kitchen utensils banging on pots and pans became the sound and call for democracy in Quebec and Canada. rabble.ca was there. We provided on-the-ground coverage and analysis while the mainstream media played catch-up. When Idle No More was launched, rabble.ca was there from the beginning. Again, the mainstream media was weeks behind. At rabble we devote special attention to covering democracy movements in Canada and beyond, sharing the stories and struggles of people fighting for change.

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A recent rabble.ca opinion piece by Chris Brisbane entitled, "Nova Scotia: Why a Dexter NDP government defeat would be a progressive victory" got me thinking about how the left in Nova Scotia should debate and orient towards the NSNDP.

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The May 14 general election in British Columbia was a setback to progressive political forces in the province and throughout Canada. The incumbent B.C. Liberals won a fourth straight term, winning 50 seats with 44 per cent of the vote, compared to 33 seats and 40 per cent for the opposition New Democratic Party.

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Another true horror story for water and the environment: open cast mineral sand mining. In very basic terms, this form of mining uses huge water cannons to send highly pressurized water to convert the soil to a slurry. This is then sent to a processing plant to separate valuable minerals, with waste going to pit refill, slimes dam sites and the recycle system at the plant. Alongside the valuable minerals, the process produces a sterilized mining area and abhorrent slimes dams.

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You don't have to agree with Alberta’s right-wing Wildrose Party to admire the skill with which it stick-handled yesterday's revelation it had been fined $90,000 by the federal broadcast regulator for a series of improperly identified robo-calls made to voters during the 2012 election campaign.

What did Harper know and when did he know it? Our parliamentary reporter looks at this and five other key points in the growing Senate expense scandal. 

1. Rules for all Senators "very clear" -- except for Senator Duffy

The Conservative majority on the Senate Committee on Internal Economy said the rules on housing allowances for Senators were "very clear" and "unambiguous."

That is, they were clear and unambiguous for Senators Harb and Brazeau.

They were somehow not so clear for Senator Duffy.

As every tenant knows, rent is a racket. Landlords charge occupants of their property not according to what improvements they have installed, but to what renters are willing to pay to have a roof over their heads. A famous economist put it like so: a landlord prices property proportioned not "to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give." That economist isn't Karl Marx -- it's Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations.