Canadian Perspectives 2009

Autumn 2009
WE WON! (Download PDF)
Council helps stop landfill and protects some of “the purest water in the world”

• Letters to the Editor
• On the Road with Maude Barlow
• The SPP Is Dead, So Where’s the Champagne? By Stuart Trew
• Green Jobs Essential for a Just and Sustainable Future By Andrea Harden-Donahue and Andrea Peart
• Victory at Site 41 Shows There Is No Water to Waste By Mark Calzavara
• Chapter Action Updates By Carleen Pickard
• Chapter Activist Profile Michaele Kustudic – Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
• No Payoff for Premiers in “Buy American” Fix By Stuart Trew and Blair Redlin
• Imagine What Your Council Membership Makes Possible By Brant Thompson
• From Crisis Comes Hope By Murray Dobbin
• Olympics Should Stand for More By Garry John and Maude Barlow
• Communications Crossroads: Opportunities for media democracy in a time of economic crisis By Dylan Penner
• In the News

 

Summer 2009
UNprecedented (Download PDF)
Maude Barlow makes the case for the right to water at the UN

• Letters to the Editor
• On the Road with Maude Barlow
• The Economic Crisis as Class Warfare, by Robert Chernomas
• New Challenges to Canadian Environmental and Health Policy Call NAFTA into Question, by Stuart Trew
• The P-Word Isn’t Killing World Trade, by Jim Stanford
• Taking on the Privatizers at the World Water Forum
• Maude Barlow Warns United Nations General Assembly About Growing Water Crisis
• Painting the Town “Blue” One Community at a Time, by Meera Karunananthan
  — Youth Ban the Bottle on World Water Day
• Chapter Action Updates, by Carleen Pickard
• Chapter Activist Profile: Mandy Melnyk
• The Council of Canadians’ 24th Annual General Meeting: Turning the Tide: A just economy for people and the planet
  — In Memoriam: Ken Wardroper
• Monthly Donor Says Being with Council “Feels Like Home”, by Dana Chapeskie
• In the News, by Dylan Penner
• Doctors Offer a New Prescription for Health Care

 

Spring 2009
Unbottle it! (Download PDF)
Let’s tap into public drinking water

• Letter from the Editor
• Letters to the Editor
• On the Road with Maude Barlow
• Out of Order: Why Canada is taking on the bottled water industry one town or school board at a time, by Stuart Trew
• Bringing the Fight for the Right to Water to the United Nations
• Mining Companies Turning Lakes into Toxic Dumps, by Meera Karunananthan
• 2008 Annual Report
• The Citizens’ Agenda Fund
• Annual Meeting Busts the Myths of Continental Integration, by Donna James
• Obama Turns up the Heat on NAFTA Renegotiation Debate, by Brent Patterson
• Chapter Action Updates, by Carleen Pickard
• Chapter Activist Profile: John Dressler – Williams Lake, B.C. Chapter Chair
• Life and Death Over a Barrel of Oil, by Mike Mercredi / Touring
  on the Tar Sands by Harjap Grewal
• Taking Charge! Council hosts second annual Energy Day of Action, by Andrea Harden-Donahue
• Binational Poll Shows Strong NAFTA Opposition
• In the News, by Dylan Penner

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updated November 4, 2009