Search results for “site/human rights”

  • Time to end the chill effect on Canadian charities

    The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has confirmed that the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) crackdown on charitable political activity has been an arbitrary and unjustified infringement upon freedom of expression. It’s time for the federal government to act swiftly to close the book on a dark time in Canada’s democratic…

  • The Monitor, March/April 2019

    Direct Action and the Strike Download 6.5 MB This May, Canada marks the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, when tens of thousands of people walked off their jobs in sympathy and solidarity with building and metal trades workers whose employers were refusing to bargain for fair wages and…

  • November 2001: Exporting Destruction

    Report says EDC is putting people and the environment at risk The Canadian government’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) is assisting eight environmentally and socially disastrous projects in the Third World, says a recent report. These are the Antamina mine in Peru, the Chamera I and II dams in India, the…

  • October 2001: The Western Heart of Darkness

    Mineral-rich Congo ravaged by genocide and Western plunder “I’m interested in land not [black people].” — Cecil Rhodes Rarely has Western savagery been more destructive than in the Congo. After 115 years of Belgian colonialism and U.S. neo-colonialism, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today is a war-ravaged, balkanized country…

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    Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada must not implement Ecuador free trade deal, say civil society organizations

    29 organizations sign letter urging government to walk back controversial agreement

    We urge you to reconsider this trade agreement and to prioritize the protection of human rights, environmental sustainability, and the rights of Indigenous peoples. There must be a transparent and inclusive process that respects the voices and concerns of those most affected, including the Indigenous communities in Ecuador who have long resisted harmful…

  • Beyond speed: Who is talking about access to e-government this election?

    The problem of equitable access to high speed Internet in Canada entered the election campaign on Wednesday, August 26, when Stephen Harper promised that a re-elected Conservative government would spend an additional $200 million to promote high speed access in rural and remote communities. Although the promise is short on…

  • Warning sign near Progress Energy's largest unlicensed dam. Photo: Ben Parfitt.

    Numerous unlicensed dams found structurally unsound; remediation orders issued

    More than half of nearly 50 dams that fossil fuel companies built in recent years without first obtaining the proper permits had serious structural problems that could have caused many of them to fail. And now, BC’s Oil and Gas Commission (OGC), which appeared to be asleep at the switch…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    The real reason the BC government is spending $9 billion on Site C

    From a lookout high atop a windswept bluff, the scale of work already underway at Site C is daunting. Large tracts of boreal forest logged. Vast amounts of topsoil stripped away for a trailer city to house hundreds of workers. Gravel from the fish-bearing river excavated to build a roadbed…

  • February 2003: Nigeria’s Corporate Killers

    Multinational oil companies operating in Nigeria are complicit in human rights violations according to a recent report released by Human Rights Watch. The report titled “Nigeria: The Niger Delta: No Democratic Dividend,” points out that “…oil companies are seen by the residents of the Delta [Nigeria’s main oil producing area]…

  • Fast Facts: The Case Against Criminalizing Panhandling

    Laws that muzzle the disadvantaged violate human rights Download 282.22 KB 27 pages Attachments Fast Facts: The Case Against Criminalizing Panhandling: Laws that muzzle the disadvantaged violate human rights

  • 28 years of waiting for safer construction sites

    Anniversary of Bentall Tower deaths highlights need for worker involvement in safety management Twenty-eight years ago today, four construction workers plunged to their deaths when the flyform panel they were working on fell from the 36th floor of the Bentall Tower IV in downtown Vancouver. Every year, construction workers, industry…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Could NAFTA ban “right to work” laws? It’s a worthy idea.

    U.S. President Trump claims to support a “fair” new framework for North American trade that puts American workers first. Understandably, this has sparked demands for a fairer distribution of the benefits of trade for workers in all three NAFTA countries. The Canadian government has apparently decided to call Trump’s bluff.…