<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">coc guelph <<a href="mailto:e-list@coc-guelph.ca">e-list@coc-guelph.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">November 29, 2010 9:37:14 PM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">coc guelph <<a href="mailto:coc.guelph@gmail.com">coc.guelph@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>CoC Guelph Update</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><p> <b><span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Media Release: </span></b><span><a href="http://www.canadians.org/media/energy/2010/29-Nov-10-2.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">Canadian Civil Society Groups Participate in Caravans to Cancun Climate Talks</a></span></p><p>The Council of Canadians is currently in Cancun, Mexico for the UN climate negotiations taking place from Nov. 29-Dec. 10. While the last round of talks failed to produce a binding agreement, the Council of Canadians is working with allies, social justice organizations, environmental groups and thousands of concerned people as part of a burgeoning grassroots climate justice movement to demand “system change, not climate change.”</p><p>Click <a href="http://www.canadians.org/cancun" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "><u>here</u></a> to read more about our actions in Cancun and read the blogs that give so much information from day to day. For example, <br> <span style="font-size: 12pt; "></span></p>SAN PEDRO - MINING<br><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><big>10:15 am - We are approaching the town of San Pedro and beginning to see some of the destruction caused by a Canadian company operating a gold and silver mine here.
We are told that the company uses cyanide to separate the minerals from the rock and that this in turn is polluting the local water sources.
12:45 pm - We have just concluded a several hour visit to San Pedro.
As we walked the kilometre into the town (the road too small for the bus), local organizers held a banner and chanted, 'Water yes, cyanide no'.
We were welcomed in a square - with music and kind words - by members of this community. They told us that NewGold removed the top of their mountain to get at the gold and silver.
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The mountain was as tied to their identity as a community, and the act could be considered, for example, akin to turning Lake Louise into a tailings impoundment area. </u>
</big></pre><h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=5507" title="Permanent Link to NEWS: Canadian diplomats in DC worked with corporations to kill US climate legislation" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">NEWS: Canadian diplomats in DC worked with corporations to kill US climate legislation</a></span></h3><p><span>Postmedia News reports that, “Canadian diplomats in Washington have quietly asked such oil-industry players as Exxon Mobil and BP to help ‘kill’ U.S. global-warming policies in order to ensure that ‘the oil keeps a-flowing’ from Alberta into the U.S. marketplace…”</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=5505" title="Permanent Link to NEWS: Kavanagh compares Boat Harbour and Sandy Pond" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">NEWS: Kavanagh compares Boat Harbour and Sandy Pond <br></a></span></h3>The St. John's Telegram reports that, "Ken Kavanaugh, a retired teacher from Bell Island, a Council of Canadians spokesman and chairman of the Sandy Pond Alliance ( which opposes using a 38 hectare lake for mine tailings in Long Harbour) says while the industries and times are different, there is a similarity with Boat Harbour - the economic pressure placed on residents to compromise the environment for jobs" .<br> <br><h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=5498" title="Permanent Link to UPDATE: Protecting the Independence watershed in Dolores Hidalgo" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">UPDATE: Protecting the Independence watershed in Dolores Hidalgo</a></span></h3><p><span>A community gathering has just concluded this Sunday afternoon at a park in the Mexican town of Dolores Hidalgo.</span></p> <span><br></span><h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=5457" title="Permanent Link to NEWS: Enviropig and supersized salmon may be first GM animals allowed into food system" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">NEWS: Enviropig and supersized salmon may be first GM animals allowed into food system</a></span></h3><p><span>In a largely pro-biotechnology lead article recently, the Globe and Mail reports that, “Under development for more than a decade, the University of Guelph’s 20 Enviropigs are close behind a Canadian-made supersized salmon in a race to become the first genetically modified animals allowed into the food system.”</span></p> <big><u><big>P3 Hospitals in Canada.</big></u><br></big><div dir="ltr"><big></big><div dir="ltr"><big><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big>The National Post reports that, "Government contracts that see private companies finance, build and partially run new hospitals appear to be quietly becoming the norm across Canada."</big></font></big></div> </div><p><big><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big>"Industry statistics show that 55 privately developed health-care facilities...have opened or are in the works in five provinces. The list includes 38 in Ontario... From hospitals to new emergency departments and nursing homes, there are also nine P3 projects in B.C., five in Quebec, two in New Brunswick and one in Alberta." Examples include the Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre in B.C., a mental-health centre in Saint John, N.B, and Toronto’s historic Women’s College Hospital.</big></font></big></p><p><big><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big>"Private companies do not actually own the facilities. They raise the money, design the structure, construct it and often manage at least the 'hard' services like climate-control and building upkeep over the term of the contract, usually 30 years. Sometimes they also supply the medical equipment and run services like laundry, housekeeping and catering. In exchange, the group gets a yearly payment from the hospital. Public hospital administrators manage the actual medical services."</big></font></big></p><p><big><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big>"Critics say...that the arrangements are often not as advantageous as they are made to look. A 2008 analysis by the Ontario auditor general concluded that the Brampton Civic Hospital...would end up costing almost $200-million more as a P3 than if it had been built the traditional way. In a report this summer, the Quebec auditor general concluded that private-public projects at two Montreal hospitals would not cost less and might be more expensive than if built by government. ...Hospitals are also stuck with those fixed payments to the consortium every year, meaning any cutbacks would have to come in other areas..."</big></font></big></p><p><big><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big>"Once P3 hospitals are up and running, support staff tend to be lower paid than the public-sector norm, said Mary Catharine McCarthy of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ottawa."</big></font></big></p><p><big><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big>Early in the new year the Council of Canadians will be hiring a health care campaigner and re-dedicating ourselves to defending and expanding public health care in Canada.</big></font></big></p><p><big><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big>The National Post article is at <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/features/Private+sector+role+hospitals+longer+taboo/3879909/story.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.nationalpost.com/news/features/Private+sector+role+hospitals+longer+taboo/3879909/story.html</a>.</big></font></big></p> <br><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>