[All] Corporate run city hall?

Mon Oct 15 11:10:11 EDT 2012

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For those interested in water protection from your elected reps at City 
Hall..and the problems with CETA , you will want to follow two recent 
incidents from Guelph City Hall .
  Both are outlined best on the  guelphcivicleague blogspot listed below.
One is a draft Guelph's omnibus "nuisance bylaw" that is so broad that 
peaceful public protest would be a serious offense and even handing out 
handbills would be the same. Huge fines . The other concerns a scheduled 
movie by the city with Wellington Water Watchers called TAPPED. It is 
about the bottled water industry. When Nestle complained to the Mayor, 
the film was cancelled.

Some of you many be interested in this event.  Norah

****Monday , Oct 15th *" Tapped"  The Film that Nestle Doesn't Want You 
to See!
**at 7:15pm at War Memorial Hall , cor of Gordon St and College Ave**
                     with speaker   Maude Barlow National Chair of 
Council of Canadians
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*Panel for Q and A to follow the showing.
_Supported by: _  Council of Canadians-Guelph Chapter  and 
****Wellington Water Watchers ,
**Guelph Wellington Coalition for Social Justice  and **Central Students 
Association. ***
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       More background information on our local website 
www.coc-guelph.ca <http://www.coc-guelph.ca/> or 
http://guelphcivicleague.blogspot.ca/
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**Friday, October 19thThe Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy
at  7:00 P.M. at 10 Carden St., Guelph   Book Launch.
with celebrated author Yves Engler
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*The Ugly Canadian" Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy documents the sordid 
story of this country's sabotage of international environmental efforts, 
of a government enthralled to tar sands producers and a mining industry 
widely criticized for abuses. This sweeping critique details Harper's 
opposition to the "Arab Spring" democracy movement and his support for 
repressive Middle East monarchies,  for a military coup in Honduras and 
indifference to post-earthquake Haitian suffering. The book also 
explores Canada's extensive military campaign in Libya , opposition to 
social transformation in Latin America and Harper's far reaching support 
for a right wing Israeli government. **

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  "Stephen Harper's government has fundamentally changed Canada's 
foreign policy in a way most Canadians do not understand. The notion of 
the Ugly Canadian may be hard to accept but it is true and I for one am 
deeply grateful to Yves Engler for this important book".
       - Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians.

"A damning chronicle of Stephen Harper's international misdeeds."
       - Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and 
International Law, Univ. of British Columbia.

Dubbed "Canada's version of Noam Chomsky" (Georgia Straight), "one of 
the most important voices on the Canadian Left today" (Briarpatch), "in 
the mould of I. F. Stone" (Globe and Mail), "part of that rare but 
growing group of social critics unafraid to confront Canada's 
self-satisfied myths" (Quill & Quire), "ever-insightful" (rabble.ca) and 
a "Leftist gadfly" (Ottawa Citizen), Yves Engler's six previous books 
have been praised by  Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, William Blum, Rick 
Salutin and many others.

*_Supported by : _   Guelph Chapter- Council of Canadians, OPIRG, Guelph 
Wellington Coalition for Social Justice ,
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and Rabble.ca*

Come early to get your "Stop Harper's Crimes" stickers.

http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/The-U/

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      UPDATE: Maude Barlow at 'Tapped' screening in Guelph, Oct. 15
      <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17170>
      By Brent Patterson <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=2>

The film Nestle doesn't want you to see! On Monday October 15, Maude 
Barlow will be in Guelph for a special screening of '/Tapped/'.

      UPDATE: More Blue October events! <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17168>
      By Brent Patterson <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=2>

Mexico City-based Blue Planet Project organizer Claudia Campero Arena 
notes that, "More countries are joining 'Blue October' with a great 
diversity of activities!"

      UPDATE: BROKE town hall against the Trans Mountain pipeline
      <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17166>
      By Brent Patterson <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=2>

The Burnaby Residents Opposed to Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) hosted 
a town hall on October 10.

      NEWS: Giles protests oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St.
      Lawrence <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17163>
      By Brent Patterson <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=2>

Angela Giles of the Council of Canadians, volunteer Chelsey Marshall of 
Chapel Island, and Gretchen Fitzgerald of the Sierra Club of Canada walk 
through downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia on Thursday to protest oil and gas 
exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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      Canada's violations of the human right to water
      <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17161>
      By Meera Karunananthan <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=5>

Next April, Canada's human rights record will be up for review by the 
United Nations as part of an evaluation conducted by the UN Human Rights 
Council every three years.

      OpenMedia.ca demands government come clean on TPP Internet
      restrictions <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17153>
      By Stuart Trew <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=3>

OpenMedia.ca issued the following statement this week in response to the 
Harper government announcing its formal entry to Trans-Pacific 
Partnership trade agreement negotiations.

      NEWS: Americans raise concerns of tar sands pipeline to Portland,
      Maine <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17147>
      By Brent Patterson <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=2>

The /Globe and Mail /reports, "Activists (in Maine) held a news 
conference on Wednesday to denounce an allegedly secret plan by Portland 
Pipe Line Corp. to open a new route to carry western (tar sands) crude 
by way of Ontario and Quebec through northern New England to the 
Atlantic coast."

      NEWS: Vancouver-based mining company threatens Greece's water,
      trees under austerity measures <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17145>
      By Brent Patterson <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=2>

A Vancouver-based mining company is threatening forests, water, and 
ecosystems in Greece; this made possible because of austerity measures 
prompting 'fast-track' approvals by the Greek environment ministry.

      NEWS: EU leaders under fire for pressing for water privatization
      in bailout deals <http://canadians.org/blog/?p=17143>
      By Brent Patterson <http://canadians.org/blog/?author=2>

EurActivreports, "European Union leaders are under fire for pressuring 
troubled eurozone governments to sell public water utilities as part of 
their bailout deals, with environmentalists and rights activists saying 
that privatisation will only feed public anger."

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