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Trade ruling could hurt green jobs

Trade ruling could hurt green jobs

Written by Angelo DiCaron and Stuart Trew for The Windsor Star, October 15, 2012. The embattled Green Energy Act is ...
Canadian, New Zealand, Australian Green parties issue joint statement on Trans-Pacific Partnership

Canadian, New Zealand, Australian Green parties issue joint statement on Trans-Pacific Partnership

On August 19, the Green parties of Canada, New Zealand and Australia issued a joint statement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...
Sustainable Development vs. Free Trade: Council of Canadians joins environmental, labour and civil society groups in defending Ontario's Green Energy Act from WTO challenge

Sustainable Development vs. Free Trade: Council of Canadians joins environmental, labour and civil society groups in defending Ontario’s Green Energy Act from WTO challenge

This morning, environmental, civil society and labour organizations sent a joint amicus curiae (friend of the court) submission to the ...
Canada's WTO defence of Green Energy Act trumpets public procurement as a local development tool

Canada’s WTO defence of Green Energy Act trumpets public procurement as a local development tool

A wind farm near Sarnia (Image taken from the Green Energy Act Alliance website) The landmark WTO challenge to Ontario's ...
Kingston event on CETA warns not to give away our local food, health care, jobs

Kingston event on CETA warns not to give away our local food, health care, jobs

Last night at a National Farmers Union- and Council of Canadians- sponsored event in Kingston, Ontario over 100 people came ...
NEWS: WTO panel to hear EU challenge against Ontario's Green Energy Act, March 27-28

NEWS: WTO panel to hear EU challenge against Ontario’s Green Energy Act, March 27-28

Business News Americas reports, "The World Trade Organization is inviting the public to listen in on dispute panel hearings March ...
NEWS: WTO panel on EU challenge of Green Energy Act established

NEWS: WTO panel on EU challenge of Green Energy Act established

In March 2010, the Globe and Mail reported, “As a proposed large-scale free-trade and economic-integration pact (the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic ...
UPDATE: Their green economy = water privatization, commodification

UPDATE: Their green economy = water privatization, commodification

I am in Porto Alegre, Brasil with Blue Planet Project organizer Anil Naidoo for a Thematic Social Forum (titled 'Capitalist ...