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MEDIA RELEASE: As clock ticks on pharmacare deadline, advocates rally outside Health Minister’s office
The Council of Canadians will deliver petitions signed by more than ten thousand Canadians calling for a national public drug ...
Media advisory / photo opportunity: pharmacare supporters to rally outside Minister Holland’s office
Participants will deliver giant pill bottles containing tens of thousands of petition signatures and a prescription for public pharmacare Ajax, Ontario ...
The re-routing of TMX locks in carbon and colonialism
Instead of forcing the pipeline through Pípsell without genuine consent and locking in a carbon-intensive, colonial future, our governments ought ...
Who benefits from false ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis?
False solutions put expediency and profit over the needs of people, communities, and the planet ...
Urgent appeal to Canadian Government: Council of Canadians’ letter on the humanitarian crisis in Palestine and Israel
Canada must join the growing local and international calls for an immediate ceasefire – including from at least 23 elected ...
How Banting’s hopes of insulin for all became a dark nightmare
Banting dreamed of a world where insulin would be available for all, but pharmaceutical companies have turned that dream into ...
Biotech industry influence over federal GMO regulatory decisions exposed as Canada piles on with the U.S. to bully Mexico on GM corn
As Canada joins the U.S. in challenging Mexico to stop its planned phase-out of genetically modified (GM) corn for human ...
VICTORIA College IS NOW A BLUE COMMUNITY
Victoria College in the University of Toronto is now formally recognized as a Blue Community. Maude Barlow was the keynote speaker ...
Statement on PBO report on single-payer universal drug plan
Statement by Robin Tress, Co-Executive Director of the Council of Canadians OTTAWA – We welcome the findings of a new ...
“Who taught you how to hate?”
Reflections from our Climate and Social Justice Campaigner, Chris Kruszewski ...
Statement on the first draft of Liberal pharmacare bill
The government must deliver legislation for a public, universal, comprehensive programOTTAWA – The Council of Canadians is alarmed to learn ...
Offshore Alliance alarmed by successful offshore bid, calls on Canada to keep climate promises
Kjupuktuk, NS - The Offshore Alliance of Nova Scotia celebrated the protection of seven of eight parcels of ocean space ...
