Canada

Reversal Of Enbridge’s Line 9B To Begin This Month

December 1, 2015 Staff, www.cbc.ca Educate! Canada, Pipeline

By Staff of CBC News - After years of negotiations and months of testing, oil is set to flow west to east again in Enbridge's Line 9B. Starting this month, the flow of the pipeline will be reversed to bring 300,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta's oil sands to Montreal's refineries. The exact date for the oil to start flowing hasn't been disclosed. Enbridge says it's already pumping oil into the line as scheduled — but it's not actually moving. "And so what we can expect is before the end of the year, in December, first deliveries will be made to our refineries in Montreal and Quebec," said Éric Prud'Homme, a spokesman for Enbridge.

It’s So Dangerous To Be A Black American, I’ve Sought Asylum In Canada

November 16, 2015 Kyle Lydell Canty, www.theguardian.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Canada, Refugees

Kyle Lydell Canty for The Guardian - Black people or people of African descent living in the United States should consider seeking asylum in other countries. That’s what I did. On 23 September, I applied for asylum in Canada. We were brought to America as slaves, and the country hasn’t changed its ways at all since then. Throughout my life, police departments have harassed me and made me fear for my life – this is something many other people of color will have experienced too.

Pipeline Delay Causes $609 Million Loss For Enbridge

November 6, 2015 Jeremy van Loon, www.business.financialpost.com Resist! Canada, Pipelines

By Jeremy van Loon for Financial Post - Enbridge Inc. reported a loss in the third quarter as one-time charges and a delay in startup of a pipeline to Eastern Canada dragged on earnings. Canada’s largest pipeline company reported net loss of $609 million (US$463 million), or 72 cents a share, compared with a loss of $80 million, or 10 cents, a year earlier, according to a statement Thursday. Excluding one-time items, per-share profit missed by 3 cents the 50-cent average of 13 analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Enbridge has been transferring assets to affiliates such as Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. which contributed to $351 million in costs in the quarter, along with $654 million in one-time expenses related to changes in the value of derivatives.

TransCanada Cancels Export Terminal In Quebec

November 6, 2015 Lauren Krugel, www.huffingtonpost.ca Resist! Canada, Pipeline

By Lauren Krugel for The Canadian Press - CALGARY — An export terminal in Quebec will no longer be part of the equation for the cross-Canada Energy East Pipeline. The company behind the project, TransCanada Corp., says it's amending its application to the National Energy Board to take the Quebec port out of the project's scope. TransCanada had wanted to connect Alberta crude to two eastern ports, enabling sales to overseas customers — one in Saint John, N.B., and one in Cacouna, Que. In April, TransCanada ditched the Cacouna port proposal because of concerns over beluga whale habitat, but it had spent months scouting out other potential locations along the St. Lawrence River.

Whistleblowers In Canada Could Receive Awards Exceeding $1 Million

October 29, 2015 Roisin Davis, www.truthdig.com Resist! Canada, Whistleblowers

By Roisin Davis for Truth Dig - Whistleblowers in Canada could receive awards in excess of $1 million for exposing corporate wrongdoing as part of a formal policy being unveiled Wednesday by the Ontario Securities Commission. Tom Atkinson, the commission’s director of enforcement, announced Monday that the awards could be larger in some cases, especially if more than $10 million in Canadian dollars was collected under the scheme. Canada’s Financial Post reports: [Atkinson] said he could not elaborate until the formal policy is unveiled, but suggested that qualifying for the higher amount would likely be tied to the collection of sanctions or settlement payments, rather than simply the assessment of money due.

Continue The Fight For Civil, Political And Environmental Rights

October 26, 2015 Maya Bhullar, www.rabble.ca Organize! Canada, Elections

By Maya Bhullar for Rabble - During this, the longest election campaign in Canadian history, many amazing movements were born and strengthened. People went door-to-door getting their communities to care about issues that matter. Now that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are no longer dragging Canada down, we need to continue to build the movements that promise change. Let's get Canada back on track! Here is a partial list collected of movements that have gathered momentum during this election. Please add more suggestions in the comments section and I will integrate them into the toolkit tools.

Harper’s Gone, Trudeau Is In — The Struggle Continues

October 23, 2015 No One Is Illegal (Toronto), www.roarmag.org Resist! Canada, Elections

By No One Is Illegal (Toronto) for ROAR Magazine - Over 16 million Canadian citizens voted in Monday’s election, the highest voter turnout since at least 1997. The result: Stephen Harper’s decade of conservative, anti-immigrant and racist rule comes to an end, and the Liberal Party’s Justin Trudeau is now Prime Minister. While many rejoice at the end of the Harper government, we also know that the new Liberal government must be met with radical, collective, strategic organizations and mobilizations if we are to improve the lives of our communities.

Good-Bye Harper, Now It Is Time To Push Trudeau

October 20, 2015 Brent Patterson, www.canadians.org Resist! Canada, Democracy, Oil & Gas, Pipelines, TPP

By Brent Patterson for the Council of Canadians - More than a year ago the Council of Canadians set twin objectives for this federal election: to get out the vote and to defeat the Harper government. Both were accomplished last night. More than 17.5 million people, about 68 per cent of all eligible voters, cast a ballot in this election. That's a dramatic increase of almost 3 million voters from the 14.8 million people, or 61.4 per cent of eligible voters, who voted in May 2011. And last night not only was Stephen Harper defeated as prime minister, he resigned as leader of the Conservative Party. We celebrate both of these accomplishments. We should rightly celebrate the defeat of Stephen Harper, a significantly increased voter turnout, and an election apparently relatively free of the voter suppression evident in the last federal election, but we will have to campaign even harder now to ensure that the 70 per cent of Canadians who said "it was the time for change" in Ottawa this election, get the change they deserve.

Crowdfunding To Build Homes In First Nations Communities

October 16, 2015 Ishmael N. Daro, www.buzzfeed.com Create! Canada, Housing, Indigenous Peoples

By Ishmael N. Daro for BuzzFeed News, A co-founder of Idle No More, the grassroots indigenous rights movement, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build homes in First Nations communities. Sylvia McAdam told CBC News she decided to act after seeing how dire the housing situation was in Big River First Nation in Saskatchewan, where she was born and raised. “You don’t realize what is in your own backyard until you go door-to-door and actually go visit the people in their own homes,” McAdam said. The campaign is called One House, Many Nations. Organizers are looking to raise $15,000 to build a log cabin on a Saskatchewan First Nation, with more campaigns planned to build more homes later.

In The Pipelines’ Path: Canada’s First Nations Lead Resistance

October 14, 2015 Christopher Curtis, www.montrealgazette.com Resist! Canada, Pipeline

By Christopher Curtis for Montreal Gazette - He hops over a broken lath fence, landing in the shrubs on the other side of it. As he presses forward, Simon makes a show of quickly ducking, as though some wayward farmer just fired a rifle blast overhead. “We’re trespassing,” says Simon, flashing a mischievous smile. “But the way I see it, this is Mohawk land anyway. If anyone sees us, maybe they’ll freak out and think the natives have come to take back their territory.” In theory, Simon is right. This field, the two-lane highway and nearby Mirabel airport are stretched across a vast plot of land the king of France ceded to Kanesatake’s Mohawks in 1733. For centuries, Simon’s ancestors hunted deer, gathered medicines and buried their dead along the southern banks of the Rivière du Nord.

Idle No More Launches The One House, Many Nations Campaign

October 8, 2015 Staff, www.idlenomore.ca Resist! Canada, Housing, Indigenous Peoples

By Staff of Idle No More, "The story of Neeve Nutarariaq is heartwrenching. We cannot stand idly by - we have to take action on the issue of housing." - Anna Lee-Popham, Idle No More organizer. Housing is a basic human right, one that should be readily available in a wealthy country such as Canada. However due to a series of past and present governmental policy decisions to move toward austerity rather than addressing the impacts of an ongoing housing crisis, federal and provincial governments have cut back on housing support, women’s shelters and other social programs that support families. As a result, Canada is experiencing a growing housing crisis that encompasses all people; it’s particularly affecting Indigenous women, two-spirit people and their families.

Newsletter: Rigged Trade Negotiations Struggle

October 4, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Canada, Climate Change, Democracy, Environment, European Union (EU), Food and Agriculture, Healthcare, Jobs, Privatization, TTIP, TTP

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. For those concerned about corporate power vs. democracy; jobs, the environment, healthcare, food, water, energy, regulation of banks and more – all eyes were on Atlanta this week where 12 nations were negotiating the massive trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The Atlanta meetings come after more than five years of secret negotiations, secret to the public, media and elected representatives but not to transnational corporations. No matter how Atlanta turns out, we are winning and can finish the job. Our goal: end corporate rigged trade and force governments to re-make trade with a goal of putting people and planet first and doing so by negotiating agreements with transparency so the people can participate.

In Aristotle’s Homeland, Canadian Mining Giant Fights Ban

October 3, 2015 Deidre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Canada, Greece, Mining

By Deidre Fulton for Common Dreams - In the latest chapter of an ongoing fight over resource extraction, foreign investment, and environmental degradation, a Canadian mining company appealed to Greece's top court on Friday to overturn a ban on its plans to develop a gold mine in the forested peninsula of Halkidiki. A day before resigning to call a general election in August, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' government revoked Eldorado Gold's permit for the Halkidiki mine, citing environmental concerns and violations of contract terms. "When there is a contract signed with the Greek state, this should be respected," GreekEnergy Minister Panos Skourletis said at the time. "This is not because we want to cause investors trouble but because we want to protect the environment."

NDP Government Would Not Adhere To A TPP Deal

October 3, 2015 Steven Chase, www.theglobeandmail.com Resist! Canada, TPP

By Steven Chase for The Globe and Mail - NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair is serving notice that a New Democratic Party government would not consider itself bound by the terms of a major Pacific Rim trade deal which the ruling Conservatives are negotiating on behalf of Canada in Atlanta. The NDP’s hardening of position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks comes as the deal appears likely. Discussions in Atlanta have gone into overtime as countries clear obstacles such as how much foreign content should be allowed in Japanese-made cars and Asian auto parts entering North America. Sources said Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being regularly briefed on developments as talks between 12 countries from Chile to Japan enter what is expected to be their final phase.

Black Lives Matter Takes Back The Night & Shuts Down Toronto

September 30, 2015 Al Donato, www.huffingtonpost.ca Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Women, Canada

By Al Donato in The Huffington Post - Black lives were the focus at Take Back The Night on Saturday, an event that shut down Toronto streets and highlighted sexual violence. Hundreds rallied against police brutality and in solidarity with marginalized black lives, with particular attention to the lives of black individuals who are cis women, trans, queer, on the gender spectrum, with disabilities, and are sex workers. Take Back The Night, an international feminist event since 1976, has featured protests, marches and vigils against sexual violence. For this year’s 35th annual protest, the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre (TRCC)/Multicultural Women Against Rape partnered with Black Lives Matter Toronto Coalition for the theme “All Black Lives Matter: Black Communities Take Back the Night.”

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