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December 9, 2023

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    June 27, 2019
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    June 26, 2019
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    June 25, 2019
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    June 24, 2019
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    Video: The fight against ISDS in Romania

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    June 24, 2019
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    About the authorTrish HennessyTrish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She is focused…

    June 19, 2019
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    June 19, 2019
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    Audience relations: Populist narratives and Ontario education cuts

    About the authorErika ShakerErika (she/her) became Director of the National Office in 2020, but began her career at the CCPA in 1997 as director of…

    June 19, 2019
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    LNG’s big lie

    The federal government is seeking to use a clause in the Paris Agreement on climate change to get emissions credits for exports of liquefied natural…

    June 17, 2019
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