Canada needs a new playbook to establish economic self-sufficiency, post-Trump. Renewable energy, value-added industries and investing in housing and the care economy are among the keys. Co-sponsored by @policyalternatives.ca & @futurework.org.au #cdnecon www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This week, The Hill Times published APG's joint op-ed with the Alliance for Human Rights in #Ecuador about the alarming human rights situation AND Canada's silence as it seeks to advance a controversial free trade agreement. Read the full story with links to our sources ▶️ bit.ly/3Wwyg8Y

Vous voulez comprendre pourquoi plusieurs organisations dans la région de Cuenca, en Équateur, mettent en garde contre la décision de la révocation de la licence environnementale accordée à DPM Metals ?

Check out le excellent reportage de Paloma Martinez
sur ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/fr/nouve...

While shareholders gather in Vancouver, Canada, for Silvercorp Metals Inc.’s AG $SVM.TO, Ecuador is experiencing widespread unrest.

Read our joint press release: shorturl.at/8yT9X
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🚫"No" means "NO"! 🚫

TAKE ACTION ✊🏽 Tell Vancouver-based Pan American Silver they must respect the rights of the Xinca Indigenous people and permanently close the Escobal mine in #Guatemala that threatens them.

#PuebloXincaDijoNo #XincaPeopleSayNo

Sign the petition ⏬

I’m just sayin’. St Augustine FL is a town of 14,000. In a red county. And we’re doing this. #handsoff #50501 #April5 AND we have some spicy signs!

APG sends letter to Minister NG amid highly disturbing reports of harms linked to Canadian mine projects in Ecuador, "we are deeply concerned about the aggravating effect of Canada-Ecuador free trade negotiations and a gender impact assessment that has gaping holes".

“This weak target is deeply disconnected from Canada’s fair share of the global climate effort, and from the level of ambition we are seeing in other countries.”

@carobrouillette.bsky.social’s statement on Canada’s new 2035 climate target, with quotes from civil society: 👇

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#Ecuador 🇪🇨 ⚠️: Condenamos el uso de la fuerza en contra de personas que se manifestaban pacíficamente y las detenciones ocurridas en las protestas en #Quito ayer, incluida la detención de dos defensores que ejercían labores de observación. (1/3) 🧵

We didn't write this one

Not going gently into that dark night of Trump-lite in Canada. I’m currently chained to a replica oil jack blocking Pierre Poilievre’s driveway, calling him out for protecting polluters over people

All these decades of war crimes & crimes against humanity. These past 13+ months of genocide. Never before has there been justice. Always it has been more violence, suffering, bombs, repression & fear. Occupation & apartheid have grown wider & deeper. Impunity has reigned supreme.🧵⏬

Excellent EV myth buster from @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social - as our research shows, the mining of battery metals is linked to human rights abuses and these urgently need to be addressed - but the fossil fuel lobby is exaggerating these issues

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is a war not *just* against the living planet, not *just* against the common good, but against the very nature of material reality. The ultimate expression of power is to say "night is day", and have others believe you.
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