http://canadians.org/media/media.xml 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. en-us webmaster@canadians.org http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2010/19/c3120.html TORONTO, March 19 /CNW/ - Monday March 22 is World Water Day and UN-Water has chosen "Communicating Water Quality Challenges and Opportunities" as its theme. To mark the day, between March 21 and March 27, TVO will air a week of water-themed films that examine political, economic and environmental issues surrounding water quality and availability. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2010/19/c3120.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/19-Mar-10-a-2.html St John’s, Newfoundland - On World Water Day, the newly formed Sandy Pond Alliance for the Protection of Canadian Waters will announce the group’s intent to initiate a challenge in the courts questioning the legality of "Schedule 2" - a loophole in the Federal Fisheries Act. Schedule 2 allows for metal mining companies to seek exemptions from provisions of the Act that prevent the dumping of toxins into lakes by having them redefined as ‘tailings impoundment areas’. http://canadians.org/media/trade/water/2010/19-Mar-10-a-2.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/19-Mar-10-a.html Williams Lake, BC - A Rally will be held at the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s public hearings which, begin on World Water Day (March 22nd) in Williams Lake. The hearings will begin reviewing a proposal on that day by Vancouver-based Taseko Mines Limited for a large open pit gold-copper mine called Prosperity Mine. http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/19-Mar-10-a.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/trade/2017/10-Mar-10.html OTTAWA – Canadians who were part of an international election monitoring mission to Colombia say systematic human rights abuses, corruption and escalating violence casts doubts on whether the country’s May presidential vote will be free and fair. http://canadians.org/media/trade/2010/17-Mar-10.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/trade/2010/10-Mar-10-2.html (Ottawa and Toronto) A coalition of Canadian non-governmental groups today filed a memo with the RCMP asking it to investigate Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration Ltd. and its Mexican subsidiary under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. http://canadians.org/media/trade/2010/10-Mar-10-2.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/trade/2010/10-Mar-10.html Ottawa – The Council of Canadians is urging Michael Ignatieff to direct Liberal MPs to vote against any effort by the Harper government to reintroduce and fast-track the Canada-Colombia free trade agreement into the House of Commons until an independent assessment of the impact it could have on human and Indigenous rights in Colombia is carried out as recommended by an all-party trade committee in June 2008. http://canadians.org/media/trade/2010/10-Mar-10.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/other/2010/10-Mar-10.html Ottawa - Twenty five years ago tomorrow, a news release was issued announcing the formation of The Council of Canadians, which has since grown into Canada’s largest member-based social justice organization. http://canadians.org/media/other/2010/10-Mar-10.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/08-Mar-10-2.html Toronto – The Council of Canadians is deeply concerned with the McGuinty government’s support for policies that put water in Ontario and abroad at risk, following today’s Throne Speech and is questioning whether the Premier is actually committed to protecting water, given his emphasis on privatization and ‘tech fixes’ that create more problems than they solve. http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/08-Mar-10-2.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/08-Mar-10.html Ottawa - This International Women’s Day a new report is drawing attention to the impacts of water privatization on women. The report, Women & Water in Canada: The Significance of Privatization and Commercialization Trends for Women’s Health, is being submitted today to the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation. http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/08-Mar-10.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/03-Mar-10.html Toronto - The McGuinty government’s prorogation of the legislature will kill the private member’s bill that would prevent Site 41 in Simcoe County from becoming a landfill. Further eroding the government’s credibility on water issues, Minister of the Environment John Gerretsen’s comments in the legislature this week show that he does not understand the proposed landfill project, says the Council of Canadians. http://canadians.org/media/water/2010/03-Mar-10.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/other/2010/03-Mar-10.html MEDIA AVAILABILITY: The Council of Canadians will be available to respond to policy and spending announcements in the Throne Speech and federal budget related to water, trade and the economy, climate and energy, democracy, and the G8/G20. http://canadians.org/media/other/2010/03-Mar-10.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 http://canadians.org/media/trade/2010/01-Mar-10.html Days before the federal budget is to be tabled, AbitibiBowater has announced it is filing a NAFTA Chapter 11 challenge against Canada for $500 million. http://canadians.org/media/trade/2010/01-Mar-10.html Mon, 01 Mar 2010