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After Bill C-38: 'Now, more than ever, we need to rise up and come together'

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After Bill C-38, public protests like this one on Parliament Hill are more important than ever, according to Grand Chief Stewart Phillip.

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Grand Chief Stewart Phillip on Bill C-38: It's time to 'take this to the streets'
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All night session passing Bill C-38 despite protests across Canada

Photo: Michael Gretton.
This protest outside Stephen Harper's office in Calgary was one of dozens across Canada Wednesday. Conservative MPs stayed up through the night anyway, voting for Bill C-38.

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10 reasons to oppose the Conservatives' Bill C-38
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Cross-Canada day of action Wednesday against Bill C-38

Protest against Bill C-38 in Whitehorse, Yukon. (Photo: LeadNow / flickr)
On Wednesday people all over Canada - like this group in Whitehorse, Yukon - will take action to protest Bill C-38.

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10 reasons to oppose the Conservatives' Bill C-38
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Not Rex breaks down omnibus budget bill C-38

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Not Rex explains how Bill C-38 is going to blow away over 80 years of labour and environmental regulations.

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Not Rex: C-38 Special
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Protests across Canada challenge undemocratic Bill C-38

Saturday’s Black Mark Budget protest at Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid’s office. (Photo: http://whoacanada.wordpress.com/)
This picket in Kitchener-Waterloo was part of a flurry of recent protests against the Harper government's omnibus budget bill.

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Hill Dispatches: Resistance to Conservatives' omnibus budget bill grows
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Council of Canadians joins with Manitoba Chiefs in opposition to C-38 and C-45

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Brent Patterson
| January 12, 2013

The Council of Canadians welcomes this call to action by the Chiefs of the First Nations in Manitoba.

We join with them to strongly oppose C-38 and C-45 and call on the Harper government to immediately repeal these pieces of legislation.

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How changes to the Income Tax Act will restrict charities' political activities

On April 26, 2012, the federal government introduced Bill C‑38, which contains proposed changes to the Income Tax Act (ITA), affecting charities and how political activities are to be accounted for, in the context of a gift from one charity to another.

We provide a brief summary of the current legislative provisions, the proposed changes, and the impact of the changes on charitable foundations and organizations.

Current situation

As currently defined in the ITA, charitable purposes include the disbursement of funds to qualified donees, usually other charities.

Charities are permitted to disburse funds as a gift to other qualified donees.

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Bill C-38's first victim: Groups forced to drop court action against radioactive waste export
August 17, 2012 |
Bill C-38 replaced the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act with environmental assessment legislation which does not require a federal environmental assessment for this type of project.
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2015 will be too late: We need an unprecedented mass movement to really stop Harper

By
Derrick O'Keefe
| June 26, 2012

We've now had a week to reflect on the Harper Conservative government's passage of the sprawling omnibus Bill C-38.

This mega bill, checking in at well over 400 pages in length, was ostensibly the budget implementation bill. In reality, it went way beyond budget matters.

Despite its bland, innocuous name - the "Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act" - this Bill represents a grave threat on many levels, a manifestation of Stephen Harper's ambitious, wide-ranging agenda.

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Rio+20: Proposing a utopia

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Michel Lambert
| June 20, 2012

The Earth Summit of the United Nations being held in Rio de Janeiro had yet to begin, and the specialists were already predicting a dire impasse over the issues of climate change and even setbacks on such central challenges as the human right to water and the protection of biodiversity. In parallel with this tragicomedy and a few weeks after the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a dramatic appeal for the protection of natural resources, social and environmental movements have marshaled their forces in the heart of the People’s Summit to propose a vision of the world based on social and environmental justice.

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