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Date Description Link
29/05/2008 Citation of Lifetime Achievement Winner Maude Barlow - Canadian Environment Awards 2008 http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/cea2008/lifetime_winner.asp
27/05/2008 NEWS: Maude Barlow to address trustees considering a ban on bottled water in Ottawa schools http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?
id=55b08e2a-b1d1-48
23/05/2008 "America wants our water: Kennedy," http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/05/23/
5647041-sun.html
15/04/2008 Poll shows Canadians reject the SPP agenda http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/40046
11/04/2008
Council activists and allies travel to the tar sands http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2008/04/09/1754/
07/04/2008 Des jeux de guerre pour distraire les troupes http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080407/CPPRESSE/
80406130/5050/CPPRESSE
29/03/2008 ACTION ALERT: Vitamin D, not SPP http://www.canadians.org/action/2008/28-Mar-08.html.
26/03/2008 NEWS: UN rejects water as basic human right http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/
news/story.html?id=b65b35fd-477f-4956-98f
22/03/2008 OPINION: 'Ottawa turns off tap on right to water', says Maude Barlow http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/349256
13/03/2008 Le juge Gomery fait des reproches au gouvernement Harper http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080313/CPACTUALITES/80313065/6488/
CPACTUALITES/?utm_campaign=retention&utm_source=bulletin&utm_medium=email
03/03/2008 Environment Canada told to expect tar sands lawsuits http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=33bde455-7c02-4621-9d94-132dcf00ad7d
14/02/2008 Rushing injustice through the Senate http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/302914
11/02/2008 Americans Encouraged to Keep a Blue Covenant http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/americans-encouraged-blue-covenant_474800_1.html
06/02/2008 Speakers will gather to discuss global water issues http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_8182324
05/02/2008 Maude Barlow on The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water (1/20) http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/05/18477133.php
16/01/2008 Osteoporosis drugs may cause destructive bone condition: study http://www.cbc.ca/story/health/national/2008/01/16/osteoporosis-drugs.html
15/01/2008 Report criticizes oil sands companies on the environment http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080110/
oilsands_080110/20080110?hub=TopStories
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13/01/2008 FLOW: For Love Of Water

http://www.flowthefilm.com/action.php

03/12/2007 ACTION ALERT: Ban uranium mining and exploration in Canada http://canadians.org/action/2007/03-Dec-07.html
29/11/2007 Gore Vidal http://www.therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisepisode=45
28/11/2007 Source for water for West at risk http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/69744.php
27/11/2007 Great lakes waters http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/water/greatlakes-faq.html
26/11/2007 Stop the flogging of a rape victim http://www.rightoncanada.ca/site/c.juIZLdMOJrE/b.2500197/
26/11/2007 2006 a record year for greenhouse gases - UN http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/11/23/wmo-emissions.html
26/11/2007 Poverty affects health more than smoking
20/11/2007 "The shrill rantings of the usual anti-American suspects. " http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=763405&auth
20/11/2007 Cell phones: Future on the line http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/cellphones/johnson-cellphones.html
20/11/2007 Time to disband the RCMP http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/11/19/DisbandRCMP/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_
campaign=191107
18/11/2007 Effect of climate change 'unequivocal': UN report http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2007/11/17/climate-change.html
16/11/2007 Des employeurs refusent d'embaucher des musulmans http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20071116/CPACTUALITES/
711160785/1019/CPACTUALITES/?utm_campaign=retention&utm_source=bulletin&utm_
medium=email
16/11/2007 Ottawa connaissait depuis longtemps les conditions afghanes http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20071116/CPACTUALITES/
71116015/6488/CPACTUALITES/?utm_campaign=retention&utm_source=bulletin&utm_
medium=email
14/11/2007 Fight Bill C-3: MPs must vote no to newsecurity certificate process

http://www.canadians.org/action/2007/14-Nov-07.html

14/11/2007 PEI job fairs open to military recruiters

http://www.canadians.org/action/2007/02-Nov-07.html

14/11/2007 Daniel Aldana Cohen reviews "Blue covenant" in the Walrus Dec. 2007 http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.12-walrus-reads-review-maude-barlow/
24/09/2007 Journée d'action pan-canadienne contre la guerre : samedi le 27 octobre 2007 http://www.aqoci.qc.ca/ceg/
24/09/2007 Les Canadiens ne croient pas au virage vert d'Ottawa - Canadians do not believe in Ottawa's Green Plan http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070924/CPENVIRONNEMENT/
70923116/6488/CPACTUALITES/?utm_campaign=retention&utm_source=bulletin&utm_medium=email
22/09/2007 'Jena 6' raises bias in U.S. justice http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0921/p01s04-usju.htm
21/09/2007 Le fascisme s'installe aux États-Unis - America Is No More - Paul Craig Roberts http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18418.htm
20/09/2007 On the relationship between the Yellow Ribbon campaign and 'Operation Command' http://www.cbc.ca/video/popup.html?http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/news/features/selling-the-mission-070918.wmv
10/09/2007 Deal develops Canada's NAFTA Superhighway http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57463
17/08/2007 Montebello: Bush et Harper discuteront de l'Afghanistan
SPP The Liberal Party of Canada
http://www.liberal.ca/story_13066_e.aspx
SPP Bloc Québécois
http://www.blocquebecois.org/fr/manchette_detail.asp?id=9925782
SPP The Green Party of Canada

http://www.greenparty.ca/en/releases/16.08.2007

SPP Canadian Action Party http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/home.html
SPP The New Democratic Party of Canada
http://www.ndp.ca/stopthespp
16/08/2007 Un sombre portrait de l'Afghanistan http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070816/CPMONDE/
708160392/6488/CPACTUALITES/?utm_campaign=retention&utm_source=bulletin&utm_
medium=email
02/08/2007 ACTION ALERT: Tell Stockwell Day you demand your right to protest the SPP!
http://www.canadians.org/action/2007/1-Aug-07.html
01/08/2007 L'accès au secteur privé suscite les débats http://www.cyberpresse.ca
/article/20070801/CPACTUALITES/708010655/1019
/CPACTUALITES/?utm_campaign=retention&utm_source=bulletin&utm_
medium=email
01/08/2007 Bottled water labels don’t tell the whole story http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20055639/
12/07/2007 Police nix meeting near world leaders http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6b8211fa-1acd-410e-b937-216b5370e3aa
11/07/2007 COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE: La GRC et l'armée américaine bloquent la tenue d'un Forum public sur le PSP juillet_11_communiquePresse.htm
05/07/2007 Great Lakes fish contamination getting worse: report http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/07/05/badfish.html
29/06/2007 Consequences of a graying world http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0629/p09s02-coop.htm
28/06/2007 Ensure a Diversity of Voices for our TVs, Radios, Newspapers, and Internet http://democraticmedia.ca/
25/06/2007 Welcome to the Sierra Club of Canada http://www.sierraclub.ca/
20/06/2007 Refugee numbers grow for first time in 5 years : UN http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/19/refugees.html
17/06/2007 Ottawa going 'overboard' with no-fly list, expert warns http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/06/17/nofly.html
18/06/2007 Keep BC's Coast oil tanker Free http://www.dogwoodinitiative.org/notankers/
16/06/2007 'Product of Canada' labels misleading, consumer group says http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/06/12/label-imports.html
11/06/2007 The Plan to Disappear Canada http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/06/08/DeepIntegrate/
07/06/2007 Health care emphasis should be prevention http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/06/07/disease-prevention.html
08/06/2007 Defence minister refuses to budge on Afghan detainees http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/06/07/detainees-commons.html
07/06/2007 Quebec to collect nation's 1st carbon tax http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/06/07/carbon-tax.html
06/06/2007 Cessons de troquer les droits de la personne contre l'amitié des États-Unis http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/06/06/146317.html
  S.O.S. Medicare 2: Looking Forward
WATCH THE CONFERENCE ONLINE, 6 sessions!
http://www.healthcoalition.ca/SOS2.html
31/05/2007 Bill to Ban Terminator Introduced in Canada http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=627
30/05/2007 ACTION ALERT: Stop the OTPP purchase of Chilean water companies http://canadians.org/action/2007/30-May-07.html
31/05/2007 Tap water: What's in a glass of water? http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/water/tapwater.html
30/05/2007 Cindy Sheehan resigns as 'face' of antiwar movement http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0530/p99s01-duts.htm
30/05/2007 Earth nears tipping point on climate change http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0530/p02s01-wogi.htm
29/05/2007 Minister defends CIDA's record in Afghanistan http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/05/29/verner.html
20%05/2007 Group plans lawsuit against Tories over Kyoto http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/05/29/environment-baird.html
28/05/2007 Federal greenhouse gas rules won't meet targets, environmental group says http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/28/science-pembina.html
24/05/2007 Hansen Plays 'Jeopardy,' BC Loses
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/05/24/BCJeopardy/
16/05/2007 L'exportation de notre eau http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/maisonneuve/16052007/87533.shtml
18/05/2007 Add your name to the Implement Kyoto Now petition http://www.sierraclubaction.ca/petition.html
17/05/2007 Integrate This! report available on-line http://www.canadians.org/integratethis/report/index.html
16/05/2007 New web tool helps Toronto map its eco-footprint http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/15/tech-zerofootprinttoronto-20070515.html
16/05/2007 $21B spent on drugs in Canada in 2006 http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/15/drug-epending.html
15/05/2007 Climate change will uproot one billion: report http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/05/14/climate-billion.html
15/05/2007 Climate change: Report, statistics, analysis and green tips  http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/climatechange/
10/05/2007 Climate change will bring scorching summers, NASA scientists say http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/10/science-nasa-climate.html
10/05/2007 The real scandal at the World Bank http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists
_a_l/johann_hari/article2486595.ece
10/05/2007 Clean air plan exempts Alberta's tar sands http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/05/08/oilsands-exempt.html
03/05/2007 European Patent Office Revokes Monsanto´s Species Patent On GE Soy Beans http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2007/05/03/european_
patent_office_
revokes_monsantos_species_patent_on_ge_soy_beans.htm

 

26/04/2007 North American Future 2025 Project : a disguised way for the United States to appropriate Canada's water resources Read more >>>
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26/04/2007 They Knew? Tell Harper to fire O’Connor and Hillier http://ceasefireinsider.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/they-knew-tell-harper-to-fire-oconnor-and-hillier/?tr=y&auid=2615136
23/04/2007 La sortie de Baird ne convainc pas les Montréalais http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070423/
CPACTUALITES/70423006/6108/CPENVIRONNEMENT
20/04/2007 Canadians ready to pay to deal with climate change, says Suzuki http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/20/suzuki-baird.html
19/04/2007 Irrigation ban looms as Australian drought continues http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/19/drought-australia.html
  North American Future 2025 Project http://www.canadians.org/water/documents/NA_Future_2025.pdf
09/04/2007 Take Action on Afghanistan - write Prime Minister Harper http://ceasefireinsider.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/take-action-write-prime-minister-harper/?tr=y&auid=2545555
02/04/2007 It's official: Manitoba town gives plastic bags the boot http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/04/02/manitoba-bags.html
05/04/2007 Surviving a warmer world: global forecast is 'mostly dry'  http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0405/p01s02-wogi.htm
03/04/2007 Pres. Bush: Close Guantanamo Prison http://www.avaaz.org/en/close_guantanamo/?cl=5026714
31/03/2007 Climate report maps 'Highway to extinction' : Scientists http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/03/31/climate-report.html
28/03/2007 Sackville Council gives green light to water deal http://www.sackvilletribunepost.com/index.cfm?sid=19548&sc=129
22/03/2007 Canadians warned about water supply complacency http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/22/un-water.html
22/03/2007 Almost 4 out of 5 Canadians believe in global warming : Poll http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/22/environment-poll.html
15/03/2007 Ark Land bottled water may contain arsenic, Canada's food watchdog warns http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/03/15/arsenic-water.html
13/03/2007 'Fair trade' food booming in Britain http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0313/p01s03-woeu.htm
09/03/2007 EU challenges industrial world to match its green plan http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/03/09/eu-greenhouse-070309.html
05/03/2007 Today's teens are less selfish than some adults think http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0305/p09s02-coop.htm
02/03/2007 IN MEMORIAM: Doris Anderson,founding member of the Council of Canadians http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/02/obit-anderson.html
01/03/2007 Wage-gap widening despite boom: Study http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/01/wage-gap-070301.html
28/02/2007 Bye-bye, incandescent bulb? http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0228/p01s03-ussc.html?s=wklyenv
27/02/2007 Boomers to reshape what it means to be a senior: StatsCan http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/27/seniors-report.html
26/02/2007 New search for global warming at poles http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0226/p03s03-wogi.html?s=wklyenv
26/02/2007 Activists put CEOs in a fishbowl http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0226/p13s01-wmgn.html?s=wklyeth
24/02/2007 Make Your Voice Heard - Speak Up for CBC by February 26! http://www.friends.ca/SpeakUpforCBC/
23/02/2007 Top court rules against security certificates http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/23/security-certificate.html
23/02/2007 Europeans' chill deepens on U.S. policy http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0223/p01s02-woeu.html?page=2
22/02/2007 As earth warms, lawsuits mount http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0222/p12s01-wogi.htm
22/02/2007 How fast must we act on global warming? http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0222/p13s02-sten.htm
21/02/2007 Two groups ask court to stop transfer of Afghan prisoners http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/21/amnesty-action.html
21/02/2007 Two groups ask court to stop transfer of Afghan prisoners http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/21/amnesty-action.html
15/02/2007 To cool Earth, just scrub the carbon http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0215/p12s01-sten.htm
15/02/2007 Gore announces Live Earth concerts for climate change http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/02/15/live-earth.html
14/02/2007 Investors turn up heat over carbon emissions http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0214/p02s02-usec.htm
14/02/2007 Investors turn up heat over carbon emissions http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0214/p02s02-usec.htm
13/02/2007 Poor heart attack patients treated differently: study http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/02/13/heart.html
12/02/2007 Edmonton bottled water company gets UN seal of approval http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/02/12/bottled-water.html
09/02/2007 Work remains on wait-time guarantee, Clement says http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/02/09/waittimes-health.html
08/02/2007 Britain helps citizens atone for emissions ttp://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0208/p06s01-woeu.htm
08/02/2007 Key players react to the IPCC global warming report http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0208/p25s01-sten.html?s=wklyenv
07/02/2007 Reports on global warming lag behind the science http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0207/p03s02-sten.html?s=wklyenv
05/02/2007 House motion passes supporting Kyoto http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/05/kyoto-vote.html
02/02/2007 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf
02/02/2007 Paris report calls climate change 'unequivocal' http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/02/02/paris-climate-070202.html
01/02/2007 Ecologists must work faster http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0201/p17s01-sten.htm
31/01/2007 Panel probes water and human security

http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=8196
    Maude Barlow speaks on water scarcity

27/01/2007 WTO powers fail to break trade deadlock http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/01/27/wto-talks.html
27/01/2007 Thousands pack D.C. to protest Iraq war http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/01/27/iraq-protest.html
25/01/2007 Who Will Hold Science Teachers Association Accountable? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012507H.shtml
24/01/2007 Foods that help boost your brain http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/mental-health/brain-food.html
11/01/2007 Is a Candu really the answer for Alberta's oilsands? http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/realitycheck/sheppard
/20070111.html
11/01/2007 California plans major carbon cut in its gasoline http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0111/p01s01-ussc.htm
11/01/2007 In fight to help the homeless, French take to tents http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0111/p01s04-woeu.htm
08/01/2007 New Oil Law Means Victory in Iraq for Bush http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807A.shtml
03/01/2007 Himalaya's receding glaciers suffer neglect http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0103/p07s02-sten.htm
03/01/2007 Inform consumers of chemical levels in food, U.S. group urges http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/01/03/acrylamide.html
01/01/2007 Saving Afghanistan http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86105/barnett-r-
rubin/saving-afghanistan.html?mode=print
31/12/2006 Canada to examine data on cloned food http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2006/12/29/cloning-
canada.html#skip300x250
30/12/2006 A Dictator Created Then Destroyed by America http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2006/12/29/cloning-
canada.html#skip300x250
29/12/2006 Poll: More troops unhappy with Bush’s course in Iraq http://www.militarycity.com/polls/2006_main.php
29/12/2006 FDA plan would OK cloned meat http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1229/p01s01-ussc.htm
24/12/2006 Inhabited Island Disappears Beneath Rising Seas http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122606P.shtml
22/12/2006 Arizona No.1 in population rise - WATER, BIG PROBLEM http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1222/p03s03-ussc.htm
21/12/2006 Plastic bottles leach chemicals into water: Study http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2006/12/21/bottle-study.html
20/12/2006 Climate change clash in Africa http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1220/p06s02-woaf.htm
20/12/2006 Farm country split over wheat board firing http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/20/measner-reaction.html
19/12/2006 'Sustainability' gains status on US campuses http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1219/p01s03-ussc.htm
19/12/2006 Canada spends too much for too little health care: Report http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/19/health-report.html
19/12/2006 Operating rooms sit empty as Ontario patients wait: Critics http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2006/12/19/surgeries-
unused.html
19/12/2006

Who is a Québécois? Harper isn't sure

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/19/harper-motion.html
15/12/2006 NEWS: Harper government fires head of Canadian WheatBoard http://www.canadians.org/action/2006/15-Dec-06.html
24/11/2006 Private ER centre plans not legal, critics say http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/11/24/private-
emergency.html
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