The Council of Canadians calls for the Harper government to spend money on clean water, not on fighter jets. The F-35 fiasco is part of a growing crisis of legitimacy for Harper.
Water Rights
Water on the Table: A film about our most wasted resource
A new documentary charts how water misuse flows...
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Water on the Table: A film about our most wasted resource
Will the global community define water as a human right, available to all, or as a commodity to be bought, sold, traded, and ultimately out of reach from the poorest people on this earth? Liz Marshall's documentary, Water on the Table, explores this question through a portrait of Maude Barlow and her tireless efforts to define water as a human right.
Mexico's Cola wars continue
The residents of Coajomulco, Mexico are literally having their water taken out from under them. (Photo: Kristen Hanson)
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March 23, 2012 |
The federal announcement of negligible funding for the Great Lakes is all the more farcical, given the government's plans to remove habitat protection from the Fisheries Act.
March 14, 2012 |
Create your own workplace "bottled water free" zone and "back the tap!"
GE and water privatization
Investment banker Goldman Sachs has famously been described by Rolling Stone's business writer Matt Taibbi (July 2009) as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." So it's a good idea to take notice whenever that Vampire Squid moves its blood funnel towards something. Having profited handsomely from the Wall Street bailouts, the Squid has smelled money in a new direction: water privatization.
January 4, 2012 |
Fracking is a controversial method of extracting natural gas that is trapped deep inside shale rock formations. It's vital that we pressure the federal government to act now.
