40th PARLIAMENT, 3rd SESSION.Standing Committee on International Trade EVIDENCE # 1600, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Ms. Dawn Paley (Journalist, As an Individual): Thank you for inviting me here this afternoon. My name is Dawn Paley and I'm a journalist based in Vancouver. I've travelled to Colombia twice, for a total of about three months, and I've spent a great deal of time researching Canada's relationship with Colombia from here.
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Visitors subjected to degrading searches at “Buen Pastor” women’s prison in Bogotá The International Network in Solidarity with all Colombian Political Prisoners, INSPP supports the call for action initiated by the Political Prisoners held at The Buen Pastor Women's Prison and supported by Beyond the Walls.
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If CSIS comes knocking... A community advisory from the People's Commission Network Updated May 2010 - Montreal
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HIGH SECURITY PRISON; COMBITA, BOYACA, COLOMBIA; MAY 2010
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In this article, we describe Canada as a mineable power. At a domestic level, laws controlling this activity are extremely permissive and political authorities provide multiple supports to this field. For this reason, we determine the Canadian Miner-State jurisdiction, in other words, a State permitting a mineable oligarchy enrichment placing the state machine at its service. Canada, an international mineable leader, is searching to spread its own pattern beyond its frontiers.
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We are responding to calls for solidarity from people throughout the hemisphere resisting the Canadian mining industry, people who are struggling for a better world and for a model of development that is autonomous, sustainable and democratic. We come together as solidarity organizations to defend human life and mother earth, to coordinate the struggle against the mining industry in the continent, to create the necessary strategies to forward this struggle, and construct a basis of unity.
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MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2010 MAY 29-30, 10am-5pm at the CEDA, 2515 rue Delisle (a short walk from Lionel-Groulx metro) FREE.
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Unfortunately, on Monday 19th April, Liberals sided in one bloc with the Conservatives and voted in favor of the C-2 draft law on the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Colombia (CCFTA). Therefore, the draft went through the stage of second reading and is now sent back before the Standing Committee on International Trade. Obviously, PASC keeps on opposing the CCFTA. We will keep you informed on the future developments on this crucial issue, and thank everyone who has been involved in putting pressure on their MP against the agreement.
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On Friday April, 16, a narrow majority of MPs (50 vs. 44) approved the Conservative government's undemocratic and under-handed motion to evoke closure on second reading debate of Bill C-2 (an Act to Implement the Canada Colombia Free Trade Agreement). Of the 44 MPs who opposed the Conservative motion, 24 are Liberals. On Monday, April 19, at the end of the final day of debate on Bill C-2, Parliament will vote on approving second reading of Bill C-2.
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