November 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.
Council of Canadians
Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.
October 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.
August 20, 2012 |
After five months and numerous attempts by Conservative Party lawyers to derail it all, a hearing is scheduled for December 10, 2012.
July 20, 2012 |
An energy strategy shouldn't be based on destroying the water and air for many communities. There are other options, such as redirecting fossil fuel subsidies to public transit and building retrofits.
May 23, 2012 |
Seven Conservative MPs who won the elections being contested under the Canada Elections Act filed motions to dismiss those legal challenges even before the court has a chance to consider them.
April 30, 2012 |
Harper's strategy seems to be to blind us with numbers that just don't add up, then leave the stage without truly debating uncomfortable challenges to his free-trade ideology.
April 23, 2012 |
The Council of Canadians release an affidavit which alleges that the misleading phone calls during the last federal election could not have been accidental.
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.
February 29, 2012 |
Send a message to Bob Paulson, Commissioner of the RCMP, William H. Corbett, Commissioner of Elections Canada, and party leaders.
February 6, 2012 |
62 per cent of Canadians support a moratorium on all fracking for natural gas until all the federal environmental reviews are complete.