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Support Asbestos? Tell Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq to Just Say No!

Dear friends, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is the only health minister in the Western world who supports use of asbestos, even though it remains today the biggest killer of Canadian workers. Asbestos goes on killing for decades. It’s impossible to use it safely. Yet we’re exporting asbestos to developing countries where people are unprotected and we’re failing to [...]

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Six Years in Guantanamo Bay. Bring Omar Khadr Home.

Dear RightOnCanada.ca Supporter, I know this is the time of year we take a break to spend time with family, but I hope you will take a moment to help rescue a young Canadian boy from the hell-hole of the Guantanamo Bay prison, where he may have been tortured.Canada is the only Western country with a [...]

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Support a U.N. Moratorium on Genetically Engineered Trees

Dear Supporter The Harper government is using public funds to field test genetically engineered (GE) trees at government research stations in Canada. Tree pollen can travel hundreds of miles and the release of GE trees will put our forest ecosystems and biodiversity at risk from irreversible contamination.“Genetically engineered trees have the potential to wreak ecological havoc [...]

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Biofuels are a “Crime Against Humanity”

Dear Supporter, Bill C-33 provides a $2.2 billion subsidy for biofuels and requires that all gasoline include 5% biofuel content by 2010. Yet there is increasing evidence to show that the rush to biofuels will do more environmental harm than good. And converting food crops to fuel, amidst a serious food crisis, is increasing food prices and [...]

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Canada sabotaging U.N. Environmental Convention

  March 18, 2008 Dear Supporter, The purpose of the U.N. Rotterdam Convention is to protect life and the environment by controlling trade in hazardous chemicals and pesticides.Now that these dangerous products, such as abestos, are being controlled or banned in the industrialized world, companies are aggressively targeting developing countries and the countries of Eastern Europe for expanded [...]

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