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Politics

Unite For The Canada We Want

Press release from the Council of Canadians, Campbell River Chapter

With an election coming up, Canadians need to be clear about what they want.  Which is why The Council of Canadians is running a campaign, called Unite For The Canada We Want.  There’s nothing like a threat to our country and economic well-being to make us dig in our heels.  But what do we want  – here in Campbell River, in our province, and in our country?

Council of Canadians, Campbell River Chapter, is inviting all members of our community to gather to share their thoughts and concerns about the issues that are paramount in their lives.  These may include defunding public health and education; cutting taxes and regulations for corporations; rolling back worker protection, backpedalling on our climate commitments.  Corporate interests and conservative political agendas call this expanding freedom of choice for healthcare and regulation; freeing up money for investment and growth; providing workers more choice and flexibility; but this is smoke and mirrors for limiting public access to the services we rely on and eroding our democratic structures.

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Forests

Sept 28: Day of Action for Old Growth in Campbell River

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Three years have passed since the BC government promised to implement the Old Growth Strategic Review, but many feel very little has been done. On September 28 concerned citizens will be protesting in front of constituency offices across the province.

The local protest will be in front of MLA Michele Babchuk’s office at 908 Island Highway, in Campbell River, from 11:30 to 12:30. 

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Health, Politics

NDP-Liberal agreement prompted increased lobbying efforts from Big Pharma

By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Big Pharma has stepped up its lobbying game ever since the federal NDP struck a deal to prop up the Liberals’ minority government contingent on several big-ticket items — including progress on national pharmacare.

Announced last March, the Liberal-NDP agreement hinges on the federal government launching a dental care program for low-income Canadians and “continuing progress towards a universal national pharmacare program by passing a Canada Pharmacare Act by the end of 2023.”

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Forests

Feb 25 in Victoria: Local Organizations preparing for Old Growth Rally

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On the eve of the 2020 provincial election, Premier John Horgan declared, “I’m committed to keep moving forward to protect old growth, create good jobs, and maintain family-supporting livelihoods in communities across the Province. A re-elected BC NDP will implement the full slate of proposals from the Old Growth Strategic Review Panel. We will act on all fourteen recommendations and work with Indigenous leaders and organizations, industry, labour and environmental organizations on the steps that will take us there.”

It has been almost two and a half years and very little of this has come into being.

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Health

Communities across Canada organize to challenge far-right rhetoric of ‘freedom convoy’

By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The streets of downtown Ottawa are no longer blocked with trucks and peppered with hate symbols, but residents are not ready to rest while the extreme rhetoric of the so-called “freedom convoy” permeates Canadian politics and society.

“This will emerge again,” said Andrea Harden, an Ottawa resident who participated in many counter-protests against the month-long occupation. “The question for me is when and where?”

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