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		<title>The Decade&#8217;s Top Labour Stories In BC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten key ways working in this province changed in the Campbell era.
By Tom Sandborn,  TheTyee.ca
Labour Day? At The Tyee this will be Labour Week, with labour-related special features running today through Friday. And that&#8217;s just a start for increased labour coverage in the coming months, building as we go an occasional series we&#8217;re calling Working Ahead: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi Dumps Human Rights to Buy Commonwealth Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Rice, Secretary Treasurer, NWDLC


Commonwealth Games 2010 &#8212;Campaign  for Justice
The 2010 Commonwealth Games will be held this October in Delhi, India.  Preparations   include a “beautification” program that involves slum clearances, destruction of thousands of homes, closures of homeless shelters, and transport of migrants to their state of origin. Government has announced there will be shop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$10 million not enough to restore justice and dignity for Indigenous women in Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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BY JAMAAL BELL
JULY 23, 2010
 
After 600 Aboriginal women and girls go missing or are found murdered in Canada, the federal government decides to throw-a-bone and give $10 million dollars. In March, the Canadian Minister of Justice budgeted $10 million over two years to address the issue of murdered and missing women in Canada, however, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting for the right to the city</title>
		<link>http://www.iam764.ca/politicalaction/?p=424</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY Am Johal JULY 23, 2010

In Vancouver, young families and seniors on fixed incomes put their groceries on their credit card.  Underemployed recent university graduates, overloaded with debt, are barely making ends meet.  You don&#8217;t have to look very far to know that there&#8217;s an affordability crisis in Vancouver.  This is one of the public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fossil fuel peddling impedes BC&#8217;s progress toward a green future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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by Marc Lee July 20, 2010

Based primarily on the creation of a carbon tax two years ago, the BC government has been propelled into the position of North American climate action leader. While there was much to applaud as first steps on climate action in BC&#8217;s 2008 &#8220;green&#8221; budget, two years later there remain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sisters in Spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.iam764.ca/politicalaction/?p=414</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is some new concern that the Conservative government will
not fulfill their promise to fund the Sisters in Spirit project. 
Attached you will see a copy of a petition to the House of Commons
calling on Parliament to ensure NWAC-AFAC receives sufficient funding to
continue on its work of protecting Aboriginal women. Please circulate to
your contacts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Energy Act will cost billions for BC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marvin Shaffer
June 22, 2010

While the HST has captured all the attention, the province’s passage of the Clean Energy Act in the recent legislative session is a far more serious matter.
The Act will impose billions of dollars of unnecessary costs on British Columbians. It is, simply put, bad legislation.
The Clean Energy Act imposes a legal requirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada’s Poverty Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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New income data suggests troubling poverty trends are unfolding in Canada
by Armine Yalnizyan - Senior Economist Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
June 21, 2010
Every recession ushers in a rising tide of poverty.  As jobless and underemployed people struggle to make ends meet, the nouveau poor swell the ranks of the déjà poor.

The most recent statistical update on [...]]]></description>
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