Fundy Baykeeper and Quoddy Link Marine team up to protect, and enjoy, the Bay...
(Conservation Council of New Brunswick) Fundy Baykeeper and Quoddy Link Marine, a whale watching cruise operator out of St Andrews, are teaming up for a Sponsor a Patrol Campaign. The campaign is...
View ArticleCanada's Humiliating Entry into TPP Trade Deal
by Scott Sinclair (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) The Harper government's frantic efforts to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations came to fruition last week, with the...
View ArticlePHANTOM, the Ballet returns to Moncton this summer
PHANTOM, the Ballet will return to Moncton’s Capitol Theatre for 12 exciting performances on Tuesdays and Thursdays between July 17 and August 23. The announcement was made today at a unique masquerade...
View ArticleLiberal health advocate wants opposition and stakeholders engaged in Health...
(NBLA) Liberal Health advocate and MLA for Miramichi-Bay du Vin Bill Fraser is urging cooperation in the drafting of the new four-year health plan through a bi-partisan committee.read more
View ArticleMarking The Death of Evidence
(Deathofevidence.ca) Concerned Canadian scientists and citizens will gather in Ottawa on July 10, 2012 to mourn the death of Evidence. Until recently, Evidence served a prominent role guiding the...
View ArticleBarlow starts discussion on price of water
Ottawa, ON—The Council of Canadians released a new report by National Chairperson Maude Barlow yesterday, entitled Paying for Water in Canada in a Time of Austerity: A Discussion Paper. The paper seeks...
View Article80,000 take to the streets of Montreal, as Human Rights Commission declares...
(NB Media Co-op) It's been a wild weekend here in Quebec. On Thursday, the Quebec Human Rights Commission denounced virtually the entirety of Bill 78, in the strongest terms I have yet seen used....
View ArticleJoint statement by the presidents of the Federations of Labour in Canada /...
(NB Federation of Labour) It has become clear that the federal government, supported by a number of employer organizations, has a plan for transforming Canada’s labour market in ways that will...
View ArticleThe CETA Deception
A report by Stuart Trew, Trade Campaigner, The Council of Canadians (The Council of Canadians) In April 2012, the Harper government made its first real attempt to explain to Canadians what it hopes to...
View ArticleAbortion and Women’s Rights
by Trish Hennessy Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This month's numbers are about abortion.read more
View ArticleNew omnibus legislation an attack on democracy: Council of Canadians
(Council of Canadians) The Council of Canadians strongly criticized Harper’s first omnibus budget bill, and is once again calling on Canadians and their elected representatives from all parties to...
View ArticleFTA’s Assumed Benefits Can’t Be Found
by Jim Stanford (CCPA) Last month’s over-the-top “celebrations” of the 25th anniversary of Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan’s signing of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement seemed strained, to my...
View ArticleObama wins 2nd term as U.S. president
(CBC News) U.S. President Barack Obama says he will return to the White House "more determined and inspired than ever" after defeating Republican rival Mitt Romney and winning a second term as...
View ArticleGermany Has Built Clean Energy Economy That U.S. Rejected 30 Years Ago
(ICN) A massive power shift may sound impossible to those of us from the United States, where giant oil and coal corporations control the energy industry and the very idea of human-caused climate...
View ArticleNew Brunswickers to march against fracking when MLAs return to the...
by Terry Wishart Fredericton - A citizen march through downtown Fredericton, culminating with a rally at the Provincial Legislature, will take place on Tuesday, November 27th to demand a stop to...
View ArticleAnti Fracking Message given to Legislators
About 400 citizens gathered at the Legislature after a walk in protest of government policies on shale gas development. Weather was described as "quite cold". The march started at the old burial...
View ArticleSocial Impact Crowdfunding Platform Launches in New Brunswick to Fight...
launch of CrowdfundChoice.ca, a new software and services platform to take advantage of the $2.3B market, growing at 300% annually to bring crowdfunding innovation capabilities to Canadians. The first...
View ArticleOrganize together to defeat the corporate agenda: The Port Elgin Coalition...
In November, 80 activists and representatives from across Canada met in Port Elgin, Ontario to discuss and strategize how progressive forces can organize more effectively against the right-wing...
View ArticleMulcair takes charge of any talks on electoral cooperation, orders NDP MPs...
(Tim Naumetz) “We have no time with that. At the last election they have voted us in at 103 Members of Parliament and we’re looking ahead at 2015 to take over,” said Mr. Godin, one of several NDP MPs...
View ArticleAl Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Who’s Who? Who is Behind the Terrorists?
( Prof. Michel Chossudovsky) Mokhtar Belmokhtar, mastermind behind the terrorist attack by the Islamist al-Mulathameen (Masked) Brigade on the In Amenas Gas complex is one of the founding members of...
View ArticleCouncil of Canadians supports First Nations legal challenge to Canada-China...
(COC) The Council of Canadians supports the Hupacasath First Nation’s legal challenge to the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), a notice of which was filed in...
View ArticleFederal Electoral Boundaries Resdistribution Proposed
In brief / en bef: good-bye au revoir Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, and hello bonjour to the two new ridings of Moncton-Riverview and Beauséjour-Dieppe. Read more. En savoir plus. View the proposal...
View ArticleGovernment drug plan “Step in the right direction” says NDP’s Cardy
(NBNDP) New Brunswick New Democratic Party leader Dominic Cardy said the prescription drug plan unveiled today is a big step forward to help 70,000 New Brunswickers without drug coverage. Read moreread...
View ArticleUS intelligence agencies can spy on Canadians through cloud computing services
By Brent Patterson (Council of Canadians) The Ottawa Citizen reports, “American spies can snoop through Canadians’ computer data — including that of political organizations and without warrants — if...
View ArticleRejecting the Cult of Austerity
(Inter Pares) We are told every day that the economy is in deep trouble, that deficits are soaring, and the only cure is to cut back on government expenditures. We must live within our means....
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