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Fair Trade

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Fair trade — as opposed to Free Trade — puts farmers, workers, communities and the health of the planet ahead of national trade balances and corporate profits. Listen to the voices of fair traders gathered in Winnipeg for their national convention.

23 Jul
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Delivering Community Power

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Imagine an electric-powered fleet of Canada Post vehicles, along with vehicle charging stations at post offices. And postal banking, where loans could be secured for renewable energy installations and home energy retro-fits. Listen up.

14 May
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Unifaith

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When the early organizers of a union for United Church ministers approached the Canadian Autoworkers in 2004, they had no idea that they were creating a whole new way for workers to organize.

14 Feb
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Afriek

Mention Rwanda to someone, what comes first to their mind? Bloody genocide, most likely; certainly not swank men’s fashion. Think again.

8 Mar
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Ken Lewenza

Looking back over a 42-year career in the Canadian trade union movement — from a Chrysler assembly line to the national presidency of the Canadian Autoworkers — what strikes Ken Lewenza the most?

3 Jan
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Inka Milewski

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Inka Milewski was a marine biologist, not a public health researcher or epidemiologist, when she received a phone call from worried residents of her community. She took up that call. Had no choice. It was something she had to do.

20 Dec
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Prairie School for Union Women

Saskatchewan’s Prairie School for Union Women has been building personal and leadership skills, and solidarity among women workers, for sixteen years.

29 Nov
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Flowers for Sweethearts

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The next time you buy roses for your honey, consider this: The cut flowers in your Valentine’s bouquet were fumigated for insects and mildew, then drenched with preservatives for the long flight north.

16 May
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Mining and Democracy in Peru

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When powerful corporations seek concessions in poor countries, communities rally around democratic institutions to defend their land and water.

13 May
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Sovereign Seeds

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Small farmers in the hills of Honduras are improving their lives through seed saving and on-farm experimentation. Jen Moore reports.

21 Apr
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Honduran Women’s Collective

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One night, Mariana dreamed that she was happy to go to work. Her supervisor greeted her and Mariana was delighted to find a comfortable ergonomic chair waiting for her in front of the machine that she operates. Then she woke up.

8 Sep
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Fair Trade Crafts

If everyone on Earth earned what their labour was truly worth, global poverty would be less rampant. Paying people what their labour is worth is what the so-called Fair Trade movement is all about.

3 Jun
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