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Brantford Expositor
April 30, 2018
In 2015, Maude Barlow predicted a full-blown water crisis by 2030, by which time demand for water will outstrip supply by 40 per cent. Meanwhile, last year, the Canadian Council for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) called on the NDP government in British Columbia to widen the review of fracking to a full publicÃâà...
The London Free Press
April 28, 2018
In 2015, Maude Barlow predicted a full-blown water crisis by 2030, by which time demand for water will outstrip supply by 40 per cent. Meanwhile, last year, the Canadian Council for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) called on the NDP government in British Columbia to widen the review of fracking to a full publicÃâà...
Globalnews.ca
April 19, 2018
The lifetime award will be presented to Maude Barlow for demonstrating exceptional leadership. Abirami Kirubarajan will receive the emerging award which is presented to a woman with a “new and innovative voice.” Cheryl Perara will receive the activist award for her social justice work, and Catalyst willÃâà...
Markets Insider
April 19, 2018
The Friday launch event is co-sponsored by the Council of Canadians and will feature prominent author and Council of Canadians' honorary chairperson Maude Barlow. "It is time for all of us to take back trade from the corporate interests that use trade agreements to fight labour rights and environmentalÃâà...
Common Dreams
April 17, 2018
“For decades, the Council of Canadians has been arguing that NAFTA erodes our ability to have sovereignty over our energy resources — and we have been proven right,” says Maude Barlow, Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. “Now, with the urgency of climate change, our concerns areÃâà...
Toronto Star
February 25, 2018
In a Facebook post on Sunday, the group's national chairperson, author and activist Maude Barlow, called him “a great beacon of progressive thought and a role model for so many.” “Jim Laxer was a clear voice of reason and justice for many decades,” Barlow elaborated in an email to the Star. “He had aÃâà...
Common Dreams
October 16, 2017
OTTAWA - NAFTA renegotiations continue today in Arlington, Virginia. To shed light on the issues, the Council of Canadians today released Getting It Right: A People's Guide to NAFTA, by Maude Barlow, its honorary chairperson and veteran NAFTA critic. It explains in plain language what's at stake in theÃâà...
TheChronicleHerald.ca
October 13, 2017
“This is a group of people who are courageously standing up to a company that is going to potentially do great damage to the waters of the Shubenacadie and potentially all of the groundwater and so on,” said Maude Barlow, the honorary chairwoman of the Council of Canadians. “I just want to be here toÃâà...
Chatham Daily News
September 25, 2017
Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians honorary chairperson, pledged the support of the social activist group to members of Water Wells First in their fight against the North Kent Wind project during a public meeting north of Chatham, Ont. on Sunday September 24, 2017. (Ellwood Shreve/Chatham DailyÃâà...
CBC.ca
September 25, 2017
Chatham resident Lucy DeFraeye has been without running water for one week. She lives in one of 13 well-water homes in Chatham-Kent that have black water spewing from their taps. She thought discoloured water was bad enough until last Sunday when nothing came out of the taps at all. Her story andÃâà...
MetroNews Canada
May 10, 2017
Canadians must face impending fresh water crisis: Maude Barlow. Great Lakes "need to be here for the future," the national chairperson for the Council of Canadians told Metro News. Share on Facebook. TweetÃâà...
NOW Magazine
September 22, 2016
H2O advocate and Council of Canadians chair Maude Barlow maps out Canada's water apocalypse in her new book, Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse and Canada's Water Crisis (ECW). From pipelines and pork to Donald Trump, Barlow fields some of the more slippery questions on theÃâà...
TVO (blog)
July 7, 2016
To discuss this, and how groups opposed to economic globalization see Brexit, I talked to Council of Canadians national chairperson Maude Barlow. Barlow has been a vocal critic of free trade deals since the 1980s. Today, she and her organization are campaigning against two major trade deals CanadaÃâà...
Comox Valley Record
December 31, 1999
We must safeguard groundwater reserves for our communities and future generations,” states Maude Barlow, honorary chair of the Council of Canadians. “Bottling water is draining communities here in Canada and around the world.” At the pace we're moving with the privatization and industrialization ofÃâà...
Orangeville Citizen
December 31, 1999
The Environment Committee of the Mono Mulmur Citizens' Coalition (MC2) will be hosting a public information and discussion session with Maude Barlow, a Canadian water activist, to discuss the ever-present issue of access to clean drinking water. Dubbed Clean Water: A Public Right, it will be held atÃâà...
Varsity
December 31, 1999
Maude Barlow, the National Chairperson of the Environmental Non-Profit Council for Canadians, advocates that Canada does not have enough governance for adequately protecting water for the future. Barlow argues that at the global scale, Canada has an obligation to protect this valuable resource.
