Next meeting of the London Chapter of the CoC
Tuesday May 10, 2011
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Carson Branch, London Public Library
465 Quebec St. (at Dufferin)
Agenda: click here
Minutes of last meeting on April 12: click here
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Federal Political Party Papers (and NGOs)
A list of websites, including the Council of Canadians: click here.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Party platforms on peace issues
"With the notable and limited exception of the proposed F-35 purchase, the issues of war and peace have been almost entirely absent from the current federal election campaign, even though the country is now involved in two on-going wars. The major parties have all published election platform documents, however, and these policy statements do occasionally touch on various peace-related issues.
Here is a brief guide to the party platforms on peace-related issues."
(From ceasefire.ca)
ELECTION 2011: WHERE DO THE PARTIES STAND ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES?
Environmental Defence, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Equiterre and the Pembina Institute asked the five main political parties to respond to 10 questions on key environmental issues. (The Conservative Party did not respond...)Click here for the results.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Election 2011 – Voters’ Toolkit
Re-posted from national office newsletter:
Donate for democracy – Support the Council of Canadians
We need your support to step up our election campaign and reach voters with the message that we need a Canadian government that will support democracy, the right to water, public health care, fair trade and climate justice. With your help, we will highlight to Canadians across the country our shared values, concerns and priorities for social, environmental and economic justice. Your generous contribution will let us step up our campaign and help people make informed choices about the kind of country they want to have after Election Day.
Please donate today
On May 2, 2011, Canadians will go to the polls and elect a government and a leader that will represent the values and vision of Canadians. Voting is one of the truest acts of democracy. By putting pencil to paper you will join people across Canada to vote for the candidate – and by extension – the political party you think will best lead this country.
We are once again at a political crossroads. The country has been plunged into the third federal election in five years. As the Harper government pushes for a Conservative majority – something it has been unable to achieve – this push is being met by the resistance of people across Canada who believe that what Canada really needs is a federal government that is committed to fair trade deals, strengthened public health care, access to safe, clean water for everyone, and strong environmental stewardship to protect our land, air and water from pollution and privatization.
The Council of Canadians believes that democracy – broad, deep- rooted and effective democracy exemplified by democratic government – is a fundamental pillar of our society. Through true, citizen-led democracy we can build a better Canada and a better world.
But since 2006 when the Harper Conservative government seized power with a minority government that until the recent election call, only represented 38 per cent of Canadians who voted, the most basic principles of democracy have been increasingly undermined.
The Council of Canadians is a non-partisan organization. We will not tell you which candidate to support, or what party to vote for in the upcoming federal election. We do encourage you to learn more about candidates in your riding; to ask tough questions of them when they come to your door and at public meetings; and to keep tabs on the campaign through the media and by speaking with your friends, family members and neighbours about election issues.
In this special federal election e-newsletter, you will find links to our Voter’s Toolkit, election blogs, and ideas about how to take action in your community.
Be a part of democracy. In the coming weeks find out about the candidates in your riding, go to all candidates meetings and make an informed choice about which candidate will best represent your values in the House of Commons.
Add your voice. On May 2, 2011 be a part of democracy and vote.
Here’s more about what’s new at the Council of Canadians in the lead-up to the 2011 federal election:
- Watch Maude’s election v-log (video blog)
- Council launches Election toolkit offering one-stop access to resources you can use in your community
- Take action! Blow bubbles for democracy
- Read all the latest updates in our 2011 Election blog
Watch Maude’s election v-log (video blog)
Every week, Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow will share her thoughts and comments about the week’s happenings on the campaign trail. In her first video blog she talks about how health care is being ignored by party leaders – Stephen Harper in particular – even though the majority of Canadians want it to be a central election issue. While Stephen Harper is ignoring health care, he is talking about trade deals, putting enormous emphasis on Canada signing deals that put our water, public services and environmental policies at risk. In this video, Maude shares information about how Council of Canadians members and chapters will be active this election, pushing hard for the Canada we all want.
Click on the image to hear what Maude has to say.
Council launches Voter’s Toolkit filled with resources you can use in your community
Want to help make a difference in your community by taking action during the federal election campaign period? Check out the Council’s new Voter’s Toolkit. The kit includes downloadable resources such as a 2011 Election leaflet, “Vote for the Canada you Want,” questions for candidates, tips on how to organize an all-candidates meetings, window signs and much more.
Download and print your copies today!
Take action! Blow bubbles for democracy
The Conservative Party is tightly controlling any public access to Conservative Leader Stephen Harper during the election. Harper is not holding any public events, “main-streeting” with the public, or going anywhere that ordinary Canadians would be able to speak to him or hear his views. Even reporters are being kept away, having to shout questions (Harper has limited the number of questions to five) from several feet away. Those attending Harper’s speeches must pre-register and then produce identification at the door. On the campaign trail Stephen Harper is effectively “in a bubble.”
Two teenage women were turned away from a Conservative Party event in London, Ontario simply for having gone first to hear what Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff had to say and posing with him for a picture. Two apolitical veterans advocates were turned away from a Harper rally in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia for unknown reasons. In Guelph, Ontario, two university students were turned away for having sung “O Canada” outside the hotel where Harper was speaking. A Sierra Youth Coalition activist was also turned away from this event for having gone to the recent climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.
Harper’s “bubble” is an affront to democracy. Politicians are public figures. They are accountable to the people who cast the ballots that put their party in power.
Ironically, people have asked why (and how) Harper is doing background checks on people for his events and restricting their access because of a facebook photo or an event they attended, while failing to know that one of his party’s top advisers, Bruce Carson, had five convictions for fraud.
TAKE ACTION!
Council of Canadians chapters will be setting up a bubble stations along the campaign trail. You can join in too by posing for a photo “blowing a bubble for democracy.” We will post these photos on our website, and raise media awareness.
Help burst Harper’s “bubble!” Blow your own bubble for democracy today.
Go here to send in your photo or upload them to a Flickr group called “bubbles4democracy”.
Read all the latest updates in our 2011 Election blogWant to keep up on all the latest election news? Read about what party leader’s have to say on the campaign trail, get analysis on current issues and party positions, and read about how election happenings relate to Council of Canadians’ campaigns. Go here to read the Council’s 2011 Election blog. |
Thursday, April 7, 2011
All Candidates Meetings
For details see our calendar on our website.
All Ridings Friday April 15, 2011
All Ridings Monday April 18, 2011
London-Fanshawe Monday April 18, 2011
London North-Centre Tuesday April 19, 2011
Agricultural Issues (Lambton-Kent-Middlesex) Tuesday April 19, 2011
Health Care (London West) Wednesday April 20, 2011
London-West Tuesday April 26, 2011
Elgin-Middlesex-London Thursday April 28, 2011
Post-secondary Education (London West) Thursday April 28, 2011
(These are all the meetings we know about. None of them are being run by the Council of Canadians. If you find out about any other all candidates meetings, let us know, and we will be happy to add them to the list and our calendar.)
All Ridings Friday April 15, 2011
All Ridings Monday April 18, 2011
London-Fanshawe Monday April 18, 2011
London North-Centre Tuesday April 19, 2011
Agricultural Issues (Lambton-Kent-Middlesex) Tuesday April 19, 2011
Health Care (London West) Wednesday April 20, 2011
London-West Tuesday April 26, 2011
Elgin-Middlesex-London Thursday April 28, 2011
Post-secondary Education (London West) Thursday April 28, 2011
(These are all the meetings we know about. None of them are being run by the Council of Canadians. If you find out about any other all candidates meetings, let us know, and we will be happy to add them to the list and our calendar.)
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Rally against Harpocracy!
Sunday, April 3 · 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Four Points Sheraton on Wellington Rd.
Show that we stand Canadian values against the CONtempt of the CONservative CONmen!
The London Chapter of the CoC will be there! Join us! Bring an anti-Conservative and/or pro-CoC sign! Tout CoC values; trash Conservative ones! Signs should be as large as possible, the messages short and to the point, and the lettering should be large enough to be readable from a distance. Simple recognizable graphics are always effective (e.g. Harpo's mug inside a red circle with a diagonal red line across it).
(Remember, as a non-partisan organization, we can't campaign for a particular party, so don't bring any campaign signs if you are going to be with us, but we can criticize Harper and the Conservatives relentlessly! You can, of course, campaign for one of the other parties there if you wish, but not with our group.)
NOTE: This is not a CoC event exclusively. It is open to any and all groups or individuals who oppose the Conservatives.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
London Bottled Water Ban
For the record, the 2008 resolution banning the sale of bottled water in City-owned facilities can be found here.
April Newsletter
The April newsletter of the London Chapter has just been published:
http://londoncouncilofcanadians.ca/Newsletter.pdf
http://londoncouncilofcanadians.ca/Newsletter.pdf
Forum: "Bringing Home Climate Change"
Tuesday March 29, 2011
Wolf Performance Hall,
London Central Public Library
251 Dundas St., London, Ontario
Join us to hear internationally-recognized local scientists present the most current global
and local information about Climate Change.
Agenda
6:00 p.m. Informal Poster Presentations of Recent Research Results
• How Uncertain are the Future Extreme Precipitation Events ?: An Upper Thames River Basin Context by Tarana A. Solaiman and Slobodan P. Simonovic
• Moving towards Probability based Intensity-Distribution-Frequency (IDF) Curves under Climate Change by Tarana A. Solaiman and Slobodan P. Simonovic
• Climate Change Uncertainty and Water Resources Decision Making – Probabilistic Approach by Dejan Vucetic and Slobodan P. Simonovic
• Climate Change Uncertainty and Water Resources Decision Making – Fuzzy Set Approach by Dejan Vucetic and Slobodan P. Simonovic
• An Approach to Quantifying Uncertainty in Estimates of Intensity-Distribution-Frequency (IDF) Curves by Fahad Alzahrani and Donald H. Burn
7:00 p.m. Climate Change – Global Prospective – Dr. Gordon A. McBean
• what is climate change
• what are the main global problems
• how to deal with climate change (global and local issues)
• mitigation and adaptation
8:00 p.m. Climate Change – Challenges at the Local Level – Dr. Donald H. Burn
• how is climate change manifesting at the local level
• what are the main issues (scales, uncertainties, communication)
• temperature, precipitation, extremes
• Upper Thames River Watershed experience
8:30 p.m. Climate Change – The Local Experience – Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic
• review of work done in the Upper Thames River Watershed
• impacts of climate change in the Upper Thames River Watershed
• from impacts to adaptation action
• City of London precipitation and risk to infrastructure work
For more information contact
Teresa Hollingsworth
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, at
hollingswortht@thamesriver.on.ca
http://thamesriver.on.ca
Friday, March 25, 2011
London Health Coalition Meeting
When: Tuesday, March 29th, at 7pm
Where: CAW Local 27 Hall - 606 First St., London, ON
At this meeting we will have briefings and discussions on:
• Distribution of federal election leaflets
• Discussion of findings for written draft of London report
• Town Hall meeting re London Hospital Cuts
• A campaign staff of OHC will be with us; also, Natalie Mehar is trying to make the meeting
For more information please contact Shirley Schuurman at:
shirlschuu@kwic.com
Call for Renaissance of the Bank of Canada
Dear COMER (Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform) colleagues, and advocates of monetary policy change and social justice for Canada,
I am writing to ask your assistance in an initiative to gain support for an urgently needed change in monetary policy for Canada. As you may be aware, I have been working for many years---ever since 1994 when I first learned about this possibility---to induce our federal government to use our publicly owned Bank of Canada to provide essentially interest-free loans to governments at all levels in this nation in place of the present practice of governmental borrowing at interest from private banks and other private money lenders. Reviving these powers of the Bank of Canada, which were used for public benefit from about 1935 to 1975, could save our governments some $60 billion in interest payments each year, freeing huge sums of funding to meet human and environmental needs, to eliminate gradually existing debt, and to avoid imminent devastating funding cuts and privatization of our highly valued social programs.
I am asking for your support not as individuals, but as activists working valiantly in many different public welfare organizations, to urge your organization(s) to endorse a "Call for Renaissance of the Bank of Canada". This "Call" has now been posted on the website of the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (comer.org). Using the website, your organization can sign on to endorse the "Call", and join other organizations in announcing publicly support for this urgently needed change.
My thinking in promoting this effort has been that many of the organizations working in Canada for public welfare are necessarily constantly pressing for public funding for the causes they espouse, whether they are working for improved medical care, or justice for native peoples, or poverty reduction, or environmental improvement, or responding to any of many other urgent needs. I have long been dismayed that such organizations have not pushed for the changes in monetary policy which could make abundant funding available to meet the whole range of social and environmental needs for which they advocate. If organizatiions could join in calling for these changes, perhaps they could have some significant political impact. When we get several organizations to endorse the "Call", we will start posting their names on the website. As this list grows we will be able to point to increasing understanding of monetary policy, and to support for returning to the creative 1935-1975 use of the Bank of Canada which is a key part of Canadian history.
Anything any of us can do to recruit organizations to endorse the "Call" will contribute toward our efforts to promote the changes in monetary policy that we need. With an election now imminent here in Canada, we have an opportunity to enable our organizations not only to request better funding, but also, through the "Call", to show that increased government funding is fully feasible even while deficits and debts are brought under control. This is a great educational opportunity as well as a means for exerting pressure on the electoral process. I will be doing all I can to recruit endorsements from the connections I have, local, provincial, and national. And endorsements from organizations of any size at any level, local to national, are welcome. Please take a close look at the part of the website dealing with the "Call". I ask your help in promoting it, as you are able. I am willing to coordinate this effort, with help from John Riddell on the technicalities of the website.
There is another opportunity we have to make creative use of the COMER website. When the Green Party at its convention last August passed a resolution calling for return to use of the Bank of Canada for public welfare, Elizabeth May, the Party Leader, asked us to provide information on this issue for Green Party candidates running for the federal Parliament. As some of you know from an e-mail I sent on March 21 to Elizabeth and copied to you, I have already referred her to the COMER website for information for GP candidates. If you have any ideas for strengthening the website for this purpose, please communicate your suggestions as soon as possible to Ann Emmett (ann.emmett@gmail.com), who is focussing on this issue. If you have not explored the website thoroughly lately, as I had not until recently, I can attest that it is well worth careful study. If we want to make use of it, we need to know how to direct people to the parts of it that promise to be most useful for them.
One additional matter. Ann called to my attention this morning a CBC report that describes an extraordinarily outrageous penalty fee extracted by Scotiabank for early termination of a mortgage. You can see it on the internet at "cbc radio" by typing into the search bar: "customer fee to pay out mortgage doubles". This information is very useful in showing how our banks are increasingly gouging us---in this case for $25,000. In the discussion following this CBC report, other people tell of similar experiences. This incident reveals the ever-growing abuses that result from control over our money system by privately owned banks.
Not since the Great Depression has the need for monetary policy change been more urgent than now. Just to our south in the U.S., state governments are claiming that public deficits and debts constitute a crisis justifying devastating attacks on public sector unions, on democratic institutions, and on public services. This is "disaster capitalism", as described by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine, and we are in danger that right-wing governments here will follow suit and take similar actions. In order to prevent our bondage to our present money system from becoming even more devastating, we need to go on the offensive to transform it into a power for creative social change.
The COMER community appreciates all you do for social and environmental well-being, and hopes you find it possible to enhance your existing commitments by helping to work for transformation of our crucial money system.
Many thanks and all best wishes,
George Crowell
georgecrowell@rogers.com
I am writing to ask your assistance in an initiative to gain support for an urgently needed change in monetary policy for Canada. As you may be aware, I have been working for many years---ever since 1994 when I first learned about this possibility---to induce our federal government to use our publicly owned Bank of Canada to provide essentially interest-free loans to governments at all levels in this nation in place of the present practice of governmental borrowing at interest from private banks and other private money lenders. Reviving these powers of the Bank of Canada, which were used for public benefit from about 1935 to 1975, could save our governments some $60 billion in interest payments each year, freeing huge sums of funding to meet human and environmental needs, to eliminate gradually existing debt, and to avoid imminent devastating funding cuts and privatization of our highly valued social programs.
I am asking for your support not as individuals, but as activists working valiantly in many different public welfare organizations, to urge your organization(s) to endorse a "Call for Renaissance of the Bank of Canada". This "Call" has now been posted on the website of the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (comer.org). Using the website, your organization can sign on to endorse the "Call", and join other organizations in announcing publicly support for this urgently needed change.
My thinking in promoting this effort has been that many of the organizations working in Canada for public welfare are necessarily constantly pressing for public funding for the causes they espouse, whether they are working for improved medical care, or justice for native peoples, or poverty reduction, or environmental improvement, or responding to any of many other urgent needs. I have long been dismayed that such organizations have not pushed for the changes in monetary policy which could make abundant funding available to meet the whole range of social and environmental needs for which they advocate. If organizatiions could join in calling for these changes, perhaps they could have some significant political impact. When we get several organizations to endorse the "Call", we will start posting their names on the website. As this list grows we will be able to point to increasing understanding of monetary policy, and to support for returning to the creative 1935-1975 use of the Bank of Canada which is a key part of Canadian history.
Anything any of us can do to recruit organizations to endorse the "Call" will contribute toward our efforts to promote the changes in monetary policy that we need. With an election now imminent here in Canada, we have an opportunity to enable our organizations not only to request better funding, but also, through the "Call", to show that increased government funding is fully feasible even while deficits and debts are brought under control. This is a great educational opportunity as well as a means for exerting pressure on the electoral process. I will be doing all I can to recruit endorsements from the connections I have, local, provincial, and national. And endorsements from organizations of any size at any level, local to national, are welcome. Please take a close look at the part of the website dealing with the "Call". I ask your help in promoting it, as you are able. I am willing to coordinate this effort, with help from John Riddell on the technicalities of the website.
There is another opportunity we have to make creative use of the COMER website. When the Green Party at its convention last August passed a resolution calling for return to use of the Bank of Canada for public welfare, Elizabeth May, the Party Leader, asked us to provide information on this issue for Green Party candidates running for the federal Parliament. As some of you know from an e-mail I sent on March 21 to Elizabeth and copied to you, I have already referred her to the COMER website for information for GP candidates. If you have any ideas for strengthening the website for this purpose, please communicate your suggestions as soon as possible to Ann Emmett (ann.emmett@gmail.com), who is focussing on this issue. If you have not explored the website thoroughly lately, as I had not until recently, I can attest that it is well worth careful study. If we want to make use of it, we need to know how to direct people to the parts of it that promise to be most useful for them.
One additional matter. Ann called to my attention this morning a CBC report that describes an extraordinarily outrageous penalty fee extracted by Scotiabank for early termination of a mortgage. You can see it on the internet at "cbc radio" by typing into the search bar: "customer fee to pay out mortgage doubles". This information is very useful in showing how our banks are increasingly gouging us---in this case for $25,000. In the discussion following this CBC report, other people tell of similar experiences. This incident reveals the ever-growing abuses that result from control over our money system by privately owned banks.
Not since the Great Depression has the need for monetary policy change been more urgent than now. Just to our south in the U.S., state governments are claiming that public deficits and debts constitute a crisis justifying devastating attacks on public sector unions, on democratic institutions, and on public services. This is "disaster capitalism", as described by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine, and we are in danger that right-wing governments here will follow suit and take similar actions. In order to prevent our bondage to our present money system from becoming even more devastating, we need to go on the offensive to transform it into a power for creative social change.
The COMER community appreciates all you do for social and environmental well-being, and hopes you find it possible to enhance your existing commitments by helping to work for transformation of our crucial money system.
Many thanks and all best wishes,
George Crowell
georgecrowell@rogers.com
Thursday, March 24, 2011
No to CETA—CETA and the Tar Sands Teach-in
Environmental Justice Toronto is holding a teach-in about the CETA and its implications on the Tar Sands and communities.Friday, April 1st
3-6pm Panel discussion, followed by discussion and snacks.
OISE Room 2211 (At Bedford and Bloor, St. George Subway Station)
CETA is the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement–a free trade deal between Canada and the European Union. This trade deal will allow for water, land, and oil to be exploited. Who bears the brunt of this resource exploitation?
What does this mean for environmental justice? What does this mean for trade justice? What do we do about it?
Speakers:
Clayton Thomas Mueller: Tar Sands Campaigner, Indigenous Environmental Network
Stuart Trew: Trade Campaigner, Council of Canadians
TBA: UK Tar Sands Group
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Watch "Burning Water" Online
If you missed our screening last night, you can watch the entire documentary online here. It is a fascinating, if depressing look at how a private citizen can be crushed by a private corporation acting with impunity with the help of an unsympathetic government (in this case, the Alberta provincial gov). Fracking will soon come to Ontario, and we will be in the same boat. Forwarned is forarmed.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Maude Barlow's Message for WWD
A message from Maude Barlow:
Dear friends,
Today is World Water Day and a time to reflect on the gift of water that sustains all life on Earth. While many have access to clean safe drinking water, millions do not. We must come together this World Water Day to commit to a new relationship with water. We must conserve it, restore watersheds, protect source water from pollution – pollution must be viewed as a criminal act – and share it more equitably for all humans, for the future and for other species as well.
Modern humans see water as a great big resource for our pleasure, convenience and profit and not as the essential element of a living ecosystem that gives us all life - so we pollute it. We dump an amount of industrial and human waste into the watersheds every year equivalent to the combined weight of all humanity. We pump water from watersheds and rivers into mega cities where, if they are anywhere near the ocean, it is then dumped as waste – a major cause of rising oceans. We grow crops with flood irrigation in deserts. We poison water with mining, nuclear, fracking and tar sands production. We let water drain away from ancient rusting pipes because we have "run out of money" for public infrastructure.
The United Nations has recognized water and sanitation as a human right, which means that every government must now come up with a plan of action based on the "Obligation to Protect, Respect, and Fulfill" this right. We expect no less from the Harper government. The United Nations must also turn its attention to water conservation and watershed restoration, and to finding ways to make water a means of peace, not conflict.
We must also declare water to be a common heritage, a public trust and a public service, and we need to support the government of Bolivia in its new move to declare that water must be protected as a public right and not allowed to be delivered on a for-profit basis by the private sector. We need water for life. Water can teach us how to live in harmony with one another and more lightly on this Earth if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Maude Barlow
National Chairperson, The Council of Canadians
March 22, 2011
Find World Water Day events and resources at www.canadians.org/worldwaterday
Dear friends,
Today is World Water Day and a time to reflect on the gift of water that sustains all life on Earth. While many have access to clean safe drinking water, millions do not. We must come together this World Water Day to commit to a new relationship with water. We must conserve it, restore watersheds, protect source water from pollution – pollution must be viewed as a criminal act – and share it more equitably for all humans, for the future and for other species as well.
Modern humans see water as a great big resource for our pleasure, convenience and profit and not as the essential element of a living ecosystem that gives us all life - so we pollute it. We dump an amount of industrial and human waste into the watersheds every year equivalent to the combined weight of all humanity. We pump water from watersheds and rivers into mega cities where, if they are anywhere near the ocean, it is then dumped as waste – a major cause of rising oceans. We grow crops with flood irrigation in deserts. We poison water with mining, nuclear, fracking and tar sands production. We let water drain away from ancient rusting pipes because we have "run out of money" for public infrastructure.
The United Nations has recognized water and sanitation as a human right, which means that every government must now come up with a plan of action based on the "Obligation to Protect, Respect, and Fulfill" this right. We expect no less from the Harper government. The United Nations must also turn its attention to water conservation and watershed restoration, and to finding ways to make water a means of peace, not conflict.
We must also declare water to be a common heritage, a public trust and a public service, and we need to support the government of Bolivia in its new move to declare that water must be protected as a public right and not allowed to be delivered on a for-profit basis by the private sector. We need water for life. Water can teach us how to live in harmony with one another and more lightly on this Earth if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Maude Barlow
National Chairperson, The Council of Canadians
March 22, 2011
Find World Water Day events and resources at www.canadians.org/worldwaterday
Greenpeace shuts down Darlington nuclear hearing
Just received from Greenpeace:
"Happening now: Greenpeace shuts down Darlington nuclear hearing
Greenpeace activists have shut down hearings for new nuclear reactors in Ontario by locking themselves down in front of the panel at the centre of the hearing.
Watch live streaming video from inside the hearings.
The four activists have locked themselves in front of the panel to prevent the hearing from continuin with a banner that reads "No nukes are safe - Stop Darlington". Other volunteers have taped over their mouths, symbolically bearing witness to a flawed hearing process that fails to allow discussion of important issues such as catastrophic events and clean energy alternatives.
The government of Ontario is moving full speed ahead to build new nuclear reactors at Darlington, just outside of Toronto, even while a nuclear disaster continues to unfold in Japan.
Last week and again yesterday, Greenpeace and other groups called for the hearings to be suspended until more is known about safety concerns highlighted by the events in Japan, but this call has been ignored.
Take action with us: Email Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Opposition leader Tim Hudak demanding Ontario choose safe and clean energy alternatives."
"Happening now: Greenpeace shuts down Darlington nuclear hearing
Greenpeace activists have shut down hearings for new nuclear reactors in Ontario by locking themselves down in front of the panel at the centre of the hearing.
Watch live streaming video from inside the hearings.
The four activists have locked themselves in front of the panel to prevent the hearing from continuin with a banner that reads "No nukes are safe - Stop Darlington". Other volunteers have taped over their mouths, symbolically bearing witness to a flawed hearing process that fails to allow discussion of important issues such as catastrophic events and clean energy alternatives.
The government of Ontario is moving full speed ahead to build new nuclear reactors at Darlington, just outside of Toronto, even while a nuclear disaster continues to unfold in Japan.
Last week and again yesterday, Greenpeace and other groups called for the hearings to be suspended until more is known about safety concerns highlighted by the events in Japan, but this call has been ignored.
Take action with us: Email Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Opposition leader Tim Hudak demanding Ontario choose safe and clean energy alternatives."
Monday, March 21, 2011
Cinema Politica: "Water on the Table" about Maude Barlow
Is water a commercial good like running shoes or Coca-Cola? Or, is water a human right like air?Liz Marshall / Canada / 2010 / 79 min.
Water On The Table is a character-driven, social-issue documentary by Liz Marshall that explores Canada’s relationship to its freshwater, arguably its most precious natural resource. The film asks the question: is water a commercial good like running shoes or Coca-Cola? Or, is water a human right like air?
This FREE documentary film screening is proudly presented b Cinema Politica and the London Public Library.
Official Site for Water on the Table
When: Mar 28 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Hosted by: London Public Library and Cinema Politica London
Street and City Location: Wolf Performance Hall, Central Library, 251 Dundas
Sunday, March 20, 2011
BREAKING: Darlington New Nuclear Power Plant Project
Change of toll-free dial-in telephone numbers for English audio for the Darlington Joint Review Panel proceedings
This is to inform those individuals wishing to listen live to the Darlington Joint Review Panel hearing proceedings beginning March 21, 2011, that the toll-free dial-in numbers for the English audio have changed. They are now 613-960-7527 or 1-877-413-4815. The identification number is 5760957.
The toll-free dial-in telephone numbers for the French audio remain the same. They are 1-877-413-4788 or 613-960-7513. The identification number is 7346589.
Written transcripts and audio recordings of the proceedings will be available the day after each session.
Find out more at: http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/readingroom/newbuilds/opg_darlington/follow-the-cnsc-at-the-darlington-jrp-hearing.cfm#tollfree
Webcast of Joint Review Panel for proposed Darlington new nuclear power plant project
The proceedings of the Darlington Joint Review Panel public hearing for the proposed Darlington new nuclear power plant project beginning March 21, 2011, will be Webcast via the CNSC’s Web site.
To access the Webcast starting at 1:30 EDT on March 21, 2011, click on the link below.
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/webcasts/index.cfm
This is to inform those individuals wishing to listen live to the Darlington Joint Review Panel hearing proceedings beginning March 21, 2011, that the toll-free dial-in numbers for the English audio have changed. They are now 613-960-7527 or 1-877-413-4815. The identification number is 5760957.
The toll-free dial-in telephone numbers for the French audio remain the same. They are 1-877-413-4788 or 613-960-7513. The identification number is 7346589.
Written transcripts and audio recordings of the proceedings will be available the day after each session.
Find out more at: http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/readingroom/newbuilds/opg_darlington/follow-the-cnsc-at-the-darlington-jrp-hearing.cfm#tollfree
Webcast of Joint Review Panel for proposed Darlington new nuclear power plant project
The proceedings of the Darlington Joint Review Panel public hearing for the proposed Darlington new nuclear power plant project beginning March 21, 2011, will be Webcast via the CNSC’s Web site.
To access the Webcast starting at 1:30 EDT on March 21, 2011, click on the link below.
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/webcasts/index.cfm
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