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Action: Mr. Harper, stop playing politics with women’s lives!

4. May 2010

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Every eight minutes, a woman in a developing country dies from complications caused by an unsafe abortion, often leaving behind motherless children. In Canada, women have the right to a safe abortion. Now Stephen Harper joins ex-U.S. President George Bush in putting his ideology ahead of women’s lives. At the G8 meeting in Halifax, the Harper government said that international aid should only be given if access to safe abortions is excluded. Tell PM Harper to stop playing politics with women’s lives. Women have the right to choose for themselves without being sentenced to death.

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Take Action for Earth Day

21. April 2010

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On Earth day, urge Prime Minister Harper to make protecting the environment his top priority.

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Take Action: End Public Funding for the Asbestos Lobby

22. March 2010

16 Comments

While cutting funds from women's groups and aboriginal healing programs, Prime Minister Harper wants to give away $250,000.00 of taxpayers' money to fund an asbestos lobby group (the Chrysotile Institute). Write to PM Harper and tell him to stop this callous and immoral misuse of taxpayer funds to export asbestos disease to developing countries.

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