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ACTION ALERT: Support Bill C-474 on GE crops before tomorrow’s vote
Members of Parliament will vote tomorrow for or against a 30-day extension to the debate on Bill C-474 at the ...
ACTION ALERT: Support Bill C-474 on GE crops before October 20 vote
The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network writes that, “An important vote on Bill C-474 could come up as early as October ...
ACTION ALERT: Oppose GM salmon
Food and Water Watch states, "Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first ...
Council of Canadians to OEB: watch out for fracking
Today I joined Council of Canadians Board Member Steven Shrybman and Lisa Sumi, Science and Research Director with EARTHWORKs at ...
Council present as GE Salmon company seeks FDA approval
When AquaBounty set up a salmon hatchery in Bay Fortune, PEI, the local Council of Canadians chapter knew they had ...
Presentation to the Canadian Youth Delegation on People’s Assemblies for Climate Justice
Yesterday I joined youth from across the country in Toronto for the Canadian Youth Delegation (CYD) retreat, to discuss the organizing ...
NEWS: Council protests Enbridge pipeline at UBCM convention
Last Wednesday we noted that the Vancouver Observer had reported that, “Members from the Council of Canadians, Greenpeace and Whistler ...
NEWS: Broderick attends FDA hearings on GM salmon
A Canadian Biotechnology Action Network media release issued on September 16 states, "The (US Food and Drug Administration) has preliminarily ...
UPDATE: Council attends Wer’suwet’en action camp
Ben Powless writes in rabble.ca that, "Earlier this year, far away from the prying eyes of the media, government offices, ...
NEWS: Broderick to attend FDA hearings on GM salmon
Leo Broderick The CBC reports that, “If (genetically modified) salmon, raised by Aqua Bounty Technologies (on Prince Edward Island), is ...
VIEW: ‘First Nations water crisis no reason to vote against right to water’, says the Toronto Star
The Toronto Star editorial board writes that, "At the very time Canada was voting against a UN resolution making water ...
VIDEO: Maude Barlow on Democracy Now! on right to water
Democracy Now! reports that, "The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water ...
