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  1. Idle No More's relevence to Haiti: Shared hardships bind Canadian indigenous peoples and Haitians

    Act, the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the Canada Labour Code. 鈥淏ill C-45 will not be enforced or ... the chronic lack of housing, potable water, economic development and other social woes. Years of ... were deliberately flooded to divert spring, snow melt water from the capital. In a 2006 report, the ...

  2. Haiti not to blame for election fiasco

    or the hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims still without shelter, clean water and hope. How ... Partners in Health in a comprehensive study in 2008, 鈥淭he Denial of the Right to Water in Haiti,鈥 was ... a government plan to build water treatment facilities in the very Artibonite region where cholera recently ...

  3. Canada: Fossil fuel expansion planned in British Columbia

    surrounding air and water. Hydrogen sulphide is a common waste byproduct that can kill when breathed in high ... natural gas from underground rock formations, a toxic mix of water and chemicals are injected under ... of New York because it pollutes underground water. Fossil fuel extraction is set to expand in yet ...

  4. Where is the aid in Haiti?

    the catastrophic earthquake on January 12. As life-saving medical supplies, food, water purification ... damage. Stuart appealed for international relief, saying that food and water supplies would soon run out ...

  5. Latin America rises up against mining giants

    want the Conga mine, saying it will damage local water supplies. A string of protests against mining ... projects have taken place in Peru in recent years. In Chile, similar concerns over water supply and quality ... increasing intense competition for water and energy, the real question now is how, institutionally, ...

  6. Canada: Movement against tar sands on the rise

    sands pipelines across BC! No oil tankers in coastal waters!鈥 read the lead banners. Two days later, ... would ply BC鈥檚 biologically rich and difficult-to-navigate coastal waters per year. In one of many ... four or five times. 鈥 The toxic ponds of waste water from tar sands production currently cover 170 ...

  7. Canada: New oil train crash highlights severe dangers

    month. The rushing water of the Bow River, which passes through the centre of the city, may have weakened ... of the town when most of the 72-wagon train derailed. The surrounding ground and waters have been ...

  8. Haiti: UN sued over cholera epidemic

    on with their lives and access clean water.鈥 A 67-page complaint was filed in US federal court in the ...

  9. North American ice storm shows extreme weather dangers

    storm that knocked out electricity. It threatened transportation and water supply in Montreal for many ...

  10. Canada adopts Australian anti-refugee policy

    government and Canada鈥檚 as the Sun Sea approached Canadian waters. Some newspaper editorialists and political ...

  11. Diplomat reveals Haiti鈥檚 suffering

    the 2000 elections were the water treatment facilities in the region where cholera first appeared. His ...

  12. Haiti: Diplomat reveals suffering, indicts occupation

    instituted by the U.S., Europe and Canada following the 2000 election were water treatment facilities in the ...