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Report – Water For Sale

In Water for Sale Maude Barlow explores how modern free trade and investment agreements impede the ability of people and ...

Universal Pharmacare in Canada

This report will show how universal pharmacare would save businesses money, improve the competitiveness of Canada’s labour market, and bring ...

Factsheet: Why Canada needs a National Water Policy

Water is vital to people’s health and livelihoods. In Canada, there is no national strategy to address urgent water issues ...

Spinning the bottle – Tackling industry spin on bottled water

The bottled water industry has worked hard to undermine our faith in public water despite the fact that Canada has ...

Report: Glass half empty? Year 1 progress toward resolving drinking water advisories in nine First Nations in Ontario

The federal government will not meet its commitment to end all drinking water advisories affecting First Nations communities by 2020 ...

The CETA Deception 2.0: How the Trudeau government is misrepresenting CETA

Citizens in Canada and Europe have one clear option: reject CETA before it is ratified. If ratified, CETA will unfairly ...

Every Lake, Every River: Restoring the Navigable Waters Protection Act

In the Every Lake, Every River: Restoring the Navigable Waters Protection Act report, the Council of Canadians is calling on ...

Report: Why Canadians need a national pharmacare program

Universal pharmacare should be a core part of the next Health Accord. This report comes as the federal, provincial and ...

Blue Communities Project Brochure

The Blue Communities Project was created to help community activists and local leaders protect the water commons – our shared ...

Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada's Water Crisis — Written by Maude Barlow, September 2016 We are complacent ...

Report – Trading Away Democracy: How CETA’s investor protection rules threaten the public good in Canada and the EU

Download Report: Trading Away Democracy Also available in French and Spanish. Please note: This is an updated and newly released ...

Europe: CETA puts your food safety at risk

Canada’s experience with food regulations under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) shows that the threats trade agreements pose ...