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Feb 6th, 2019
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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in friendly discussion with Honduras Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Dolores Agüero at the Lima Group meeting in Ottawa. Janet Spring today (Feb, 6 2019) renewed her request for a meeting with Freeland and Trudeau si...
Feb 6th, 2019
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Edwin Espinal and Karen Spring  AWARE News Network Thursday February 7 2019 is the last day to sign the e-petition posted by Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte MP Alex Nuttall, calling for the release of Edwin Espinal and other political prisoners in Honduras. Edwin is the husband of Karen Spring of Elmv...
Jan 28th, 2019
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Brenda Michell, Unist’ot’en house member, surveyed damage to a Unist’ot’en trapline, bulldozed through on Jan. 27, 2019. -Michael Toledano photo By Emilee Gilpin National Observer A subsidiary of Calgary-based energy company TransCanada bulldozed through traplines and personal...
Jan 19th, 2019
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Woodland caribou swimming – Aikens Lake News photo By Fatima Syed National Observer January 18th 2019 Canada’s most populous province has launched a sweeping review of a law protecting endangered species in order to find “efficiencies for businesses.” Ontario Premier Doug Ford...
Jan 18th, 2019
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  By John Bacher January 7 2019 The name Bill 66 seems like a science fiction monster akin to Godzilla, which emerged out of the debris of nuclear contaminated post-war Japan. A similar scary beast has come forth today out of the fiendish populism of Ontario Premier, Doug Ford. While Godzilla pi...
Jan 17th, 2019
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Janet Spring in front of the ‘Free Edwin’ billboard on County Road 90  From the Simcoe Honduras Rights Monitor Note: Elected officials who have accepted an invitation to speak include Barrie–Springwater–Oro- Medonte MP Alex Nuttall, Barrie–Springwater–Oro- Medonte MPP Doug Downey and Spri...
Jan 10th, 2019
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MP Bruce Stanton (PC – Simcoe North) speaks  at Honduras community meeting in April 2018 By Kate Harries Springwater News January 10 2010 At any given time there are about 100 cases of Canadians or their relatives imprisoned in foreign countries, MP Bruce Stanton says, but none that he has been...
Jan 8th, 2019
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AWARE News Network See video on Youtube An AWARE Simcoe member has sent the following email to the parties responsible in the arrests of indigenous people defending their land in British Columbia. You too can let them know how you feel! PM Justin Trudeau, justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca MP Carolyn Bennett,...
Dec 6th, 2018
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Rudy Turtle  By Kristy Kirkup & Janice Dickson National Observer An Ontario First Nation suffering from generations of mercury poisoning still needs a treatment centre and help for children harmed by the toxic metal, its chief said Wednesday. Until Grassy Narrows gets aid Prime Minister Justin Tr...
Dec 3rd, 2018
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From Grassy Narrows Support Grassy Narrows First Nations will soon release a ground-breaking new report in Ottawa. The authoritative report is the first study to link higher rates of health and wellbeing challenges in Grassy Narrows’ children with exposure to mercury, a potent neurotoxin, from local ...