Recent highlights
Is our right to peaceful protest disappearing?
January 22, 2020
The right to protest is an important part of Canadian democracy and the right to free expression.
Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the freedom of expression, freedom of association, and the freedom of peaceful assembly. Protests are a way for people to express themselves for or against decisions made by government or other powerful institutions. People have...
Canada Infrastructure Bank eyes privatizing local water systems across the country
January 17, 2020
Press Progress reports that buried in the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB)’s annual report is praise for the water system in the town of Mapleton in Wellington County, Ontario as an example of a good private-public partnership (P3). The CIB report says there is “potential” for similar privatization schemes across the country.
Council stands in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en land defenders: We are watching
January 17, 2020
Today is the deadline for a B.C. Supreme Court injunction for Wet'suwet'en land defenders to leave their unceded territory and allow construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline to continue. The land defenders have said they will not comply.
The Council of Canadians stands in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs and land defenders and calls on the Canadian and B.C. governments and RCMP...
Death of NAFTA restores energy sovereignty to Canada — for now
January 6, 2020
Op-ed written for the The Star, January 6, 2019, by Gordon Laxer, Political Economist and professor emeritus at the University of Alberta.
Social justice reader's corner: Books for the new decade
January 6, 2020
Arthur Manuel was an amazing leader who every Canadian should know more about. Four years ago he wrote a powerful book that records his own experiences and his family’s part in struggles for Indigenous rights. The title of the book is by itself a teachable moment – Unsettling Canada. For those of us who have grown up with traditional teaching of history, it is a truly unsettling journey to see...