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Recent digital actions
EMAIL ACTION: Demand Sustainable Jobs Act committee amend the Bill today
URGENT ACTION: Only hours left to improve the Sustainable Jobs Act. Tell MPs on the committee amending the Sustainable Jobs ...
PHONE ACTION: Sustainable Jobs Phone Zap
Click to call MPs to turn the Sustainable Jobs Bill into a roadmap for a green, post-carbon economic future ...
PHARMACARE PHONE BLITZ: Click to call Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland
Please take a minute now to call Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Health Minister Mark Holland and other key MPs with ...
Take action to strengthen the Sustainable Jobs Act (Bill C-50)
Since 2019, the Liberal government has been promising to table legislation to support a just transition away from fossil fuels ...
PHARMACARE PHONE BLITZ: Click to call Health Minister Mark Holland
Please take a minute now to call Health Minister Mark Holland with your message of support for public, universal pharmacare ...
PHARMACARE PHONE BLITZ: Click to call Fredericton MP Jenica Atwin
Please take a minute now to call Fredericton Member of Parliament Jenica Atwin with your message of support for public, ...
Tell the new Health Minister to support strong pharmacare legislation
Take action today! We are at a pivotal moment in the fight for pharmacare. The Trudeau government is about to ...
Submission to the draft clean electricity regulations public consultation
Comment period open: Give your feedback on the draft federal Clean Electricity Regulations ...
ACTION: Last push for an effective Canada Water Agency
Tell the Prime Minister that there is no time to waste in fulfilling his pledge to establish the Canada Water ...
Ask your MP to support just transition legislation
Canada must address the climate emergency. Send an email to your MP calling on them to take action for just ...
Write a letter to the editor on pharmacare
Send your local paper a letter on the importance of public, universal pharmacare. We've included tips to help get you ...
Tell the federal government to reject fossil fuel subsidies
Tell the federal government to keep its promise to stop funding fossil fuels now #StopFundingFossils #JustTransition ...
Protect citizen’s rights to appeal under the Ontario Land Tribunal
Send an email today to protect community voices, not corporate interests ...
Change the narrative about health care privatization
Send a letter to the editor of your local paper to reject privatization as an “innovative” solution to the health ...
Demand a just cleanup of the tar sands and tailings ponds for a just transition
It is imperative that the Alberta government work together with the federal government to find solutions to the tailings ponds ...
Ask your MP to support a just transition in their regional caucus
The federal government has released its preliminary just transition strategy, calling it a “Sustainable Jobs Plan.” While the legislation has ...
By 9:43 a.m. on Jan 3, CEOs made more than you might all year. Time to fairly tax wealth!
Send Finance Minister Freeland a message demanding fair taxes for the ultra-wealthy now! ...
Sign the petition calling for universal, public pharmacare
Sign this petition to call on the Prime Minister and the Government of Canada to pass legislation immediately to create legislation ...
Call on Quebec Premier François Legault to protect moose in La Verendrye Wildlife Park
The moose in La Verendrye Wildlife Park are in a state of emergency. The Anishnabe people have relied on the ...
Care, not profit – defend public health care in Ontario
The Ford government is engaging in unprecedented privatization of our health care services, transferring millions of public dollars to for-profit ...
Tell the federal government to listen to downstream Indigenous communities and say “no” to tailings dumping
Email Minister Guilbeault and demand that government listens to the voices of downstream Indigenous communities that are opposed to the ...
TELL RBC TO STOP FUNDING COASTAL GASLINK
Update: The RBC-backed Coastal GasLink pipeline has now begun drilling beneath the internationally significant Wedzin Kwa, a sacred river in ...
Tell the federal government to say no to tailings dumping!
Email Minister Steven Guilbeault and demand regulations that do not allow tailings dumping into the Athabasca River ...
Protect Public Health Care in Nova Scotia
Remind Nova Scotia's Premier Tim Houston and Michelle Thompson, Minister of Health and Wellness, that it is their duty to ...
Ask your MP to support a People’s Vaccine
: Send an email to your Member of Parliament calling on them to support the lifting of patents on vaccines ...
No Water To Waste: Boycott Bottled Water Petition
Take the pledge today never to use commercial bottled water. Become a Public Water Champion by boycotting all Bottled Water ...
Say No to Thermal Coal Exports!
To move Canada beyond coal altogether, we must work to put an immediate end to thermal coal production and exports ...
Email your MP – No more weapons to Saudi Arabia
Send a letter now calling on the Canadian government to stop sending weapons to Saudi Arabia and stop arming the ...
Call for a moratorium and inquiry on offshore drilling in Nova Scotia
Add your voice to this call for a moratorium and inquiry on offshore drilling in Nova Scotia ...
Sign up to help organize a Just Transition in your community
The Council of Canadians is organizing to flood Parliament with petitions calling for just transition legislation. Please use this form ...
Petition: Support our elderly in long-term care and seniors’ care homes
Sign this petition to the Minister of Health and the Minister of Seniors to let them know you think that ...
Trudeau: Time to end Drinking Water Advisories in First Nations
Call on the federal government to fulfill their promise made in 2015 to put an end to all long-term Drinking Water ...
Send a letter to the editor
We are living in a unique moment – amid intersecting climate, economic and public health crises. Measures that were previously deemed impossible to deal with the climate crisis and with systemic racism and injustice are becoming possible overnight. We are seeing massive investments in health care, infrastructure and other community services. However, this window is also an opportunity for corporations and those who seek to divide us to push an agenda of austerity and privatization.
