Council of Canadians
Take the National Water Survey
Nov 5 2012
Canada’s freshwater is under threat like never before. Climate change, pollution and corporations that want to sell water or use it unsustainably are putting Canada’s lakes and rivers in danger.
Public Service Alliance of Canada
Canada Post holding up pay equity payments, refuses to implement Supreme Court Order
Nov 5 2012
Ask your MP to write to Canada Post to get it to implement pay equity now.
Inter Pares
Different Continents, Same Struggles
Nov 2 2012
Activists from Asia and West Africa gathered in India to share and plan around food security and ecological agriculture.
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Growing income gap “the untold story” at the public library
Nov 2 2012
The untold story at the Saskatoon Public Library involves the growing gap between those who make a good living working at the library and those who struggle to make ends meet.
Your Canada, Your Constitution
20 years after the failed Charlottetown Accord is it time again for a discussion about a new Constitution?
Oct 31 2012
Many surveys show that a majority of Canadians think there are fundamental problems with Canada’s Constitution and governments, and that they want changes to make a new constitution.
Canadian Health Coalition
Canadians think insurance companies will drive up health care costs
Oct 31 2012
Most Canadians understand that private health care is costly and inefficient. We can all see the privatization forces mobilizing and trying to get more access to our health care.
Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union
Supreme Court to hear MTS pensioners' appeal
Oct 31 2012
The fight for pension justice at MTS Allstream will continue for our members and retirees before the nation’s highest court.
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Downloading disability support to municipalities “a disaster” for vulnerable Ontarians
Oct 29 2012
What we are going to wind up with is a mishmash of services and rates across Ontario with no central oversight and a system that cares less about the individual and more about budgets.
Canadians for Tax Fairness
Canadian Senator to Parliamentary Budget Officer: Investigate tax havens
Oct 29 2012
The PBO has a mandate to advise Parliament about how taxpayers' money is being managed and "to provide independent analysis (to MPs) about the state of the nation's finances."
Council of Canadians
Action Alert: Harper must tear up the Canada-China investment treaty
Oct 29 2012
This new investment pact will give Chinese firms in Canada and Canadian firms in China 31 years of "protection" -- from environmental, human rights or resource conservation measures they don't like.
Public Service Alliance of Canada
Pension changes an attack on the next generation of public service workers
Oct 22 2012
We call on the government to focus on strengthening pensions for all Canadians instead of weakening pension plans and retirement security for Canadians dedicated to public service.
Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union
CRTC decision in the public interest, says Canada's largest media union
Oct 19 2012
The CRTC's well-reasoned decision to deny Bell's application to acquire Astral addressed concerns of Canadians and Canadian consumers about the scope and impact of this transaction.
Make Poverty History
Let’s reverse the cuts to international development assistance!
Oct 19 2012
If we all raise our voices we shall be heard. Let's stand by the struggling families who need our assistance.
Inter Pares
Just Work? A solidarity tour in support of migrant workers' rights
Oct 17 2012
The goal of Inter Pares' "Just Work?" tour is to further the dialogue needed in Canada to address the marginalization and abuse of temporary migrant workers.
Canadians for Tax Fairness
Canada's Cirque du Soleil: Another tax haven junkie
Oct 17 2012
The multinational entertainment group cuts its tax bill but without making anything, anywhere, more efficient: it is simply a transfer of wealth away from taxpayers in Canada and elsewhere.
B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union
Community social service workers on strike; vulnerable families last on B.C. government’s priority list
Oct 17 2012
Community social service workers are on strike because the government is putting services and people at risk through constant cuts.
Sierra Club of Canada
Thinking outside the nuclear box
Oct 15 2012
Energy efficiency, industrial cogeneration, combined cycle plants, smart grids and renewable energy sources deserve to be given the kind of favourable treatment once lavished on nuclear power.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
NHL lockout: Which side are you on?
Oct 15 2012
When it comes to dividing up the $3.3 billion of revenue between owners and players perhaps the owners should get their own house in order before asking for sacrifices from the players.
United Food and Commercial Workers
UFCW Canada participates in launch of historic UNI Alliance to drive positive change at Walmart
Oct 12 2012
The UNI Walmart Global Union Alliance is an international network of union members fighting for fairness, decent working conditions, and ensuring the right to join a union for all Walmart employees
National Union of Public and General Employees
Major step forward as 11 European countries commit to Robin Hood Tax
Oct 12 2012
Details still need to be worked out but 11 EU finance ministers agree to impose tax as part of measures needed to curb risky speculative trading practices.
Beit Zatoun
International Festival of Poetry of Resistance
Oct 12 2012
Saturday, Oct 13 from 3:30 to 5 pm featuring "As the Land is the Language: The Life of Mahmoud Darwish."
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Will BC break its own GHG emissions law?
Oct 10 2012
In 2007 the BC government legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), but just five years later, the province’s 2012 Natural Gas Strategy risks breaking that legislation.
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Action on workplace stress, mental injury prevention tools for Ontario workers
Oct 10 2012
Work-related stress is on the rise as our workplaces experience increasing demands and reduced resources.
Inter Pares
Building the foundations of peace in Burma
Oct 8 2012
We support people from Burma working together to protect the environment and to provide food and health care to their own communities.
Mining Watch
Tŝilhqot’in leaders and communities fully opposed to “new” Prosperity Mine
Oct 5 2012
There is overwhelming opposition in our communities to this mine, and it is shameful that the company is stooping to quoting one individual's support in its press releases.
United Food and Commercial Workers
Workers force Walmart to address serious health and safety concerns in warehouses
Oct 5 2012
The warehouse workers' struggle has inspired the solidarity of over 120,000 supporters and has shone a much-needed light on the conditions Wal-Mart warehouse workers face.
B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union
BCGEU calls for investment in green infrastructure projects and public services
Oct 3 2012
Austerity measures will exacerbate the economic challenges we face and create undue hardship on many of our province's most vulnerable citizens.
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Austerity agenda endangers Ontario’s natural wilderness
Oct 1 2012
Dalton McGuinty has tossed his so-called 'green agenda' into the trash can, the preservation of Ontario's natural geographic wilderness can now be found in a category titled 'endangered.'
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Group calls on Saskatchewan Premier Wall to improve government accountability
Oct 1 2012
One of the ways to support the public's right to know is to adopt an 'Open Government' approach to information.
United Steelworkers
‘You deserve better,’ Steelworkers tell Excellon Resources shareholders
Sep 28 2012
We are communicating directly with Excellon shareholders to document a litany of management problems that have led to festering conflicts in Mexico and a depressed share price for shareholders.