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Activist, Water Warrior

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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
I am so sad for my city tonight. Terrible noise, gridlock, diesel pollution, swastikas, Confederate flags, anti maskers screaming at store clerks, white supremacists. I feel a very deep sadness.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
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I love and value the CBC. I know it is not perfect but I am tired of CBC bashing. National TV news is great, radio is great. Just watched This Hour and Son of a Critch. Loved them! Please stop bashing the CBC. Pierre Poilievre would destroy it. It is our national voice.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
I have a fear. It is that a large contingent of the Ottawa convoy are planning a re-assault. Hundreds of their rigs are camped at three private sites near Ottawa and it wouldn’t take many more to make a dangerous new convoy attack. Many are beyond reason.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
Waiting for vaccines takes me back to the first book I ever wrote in 1990 where I told the story of Brian Mulroney’s sale of our superstar Connaught Lab. Publicly owned, world renowned, it fell to the gods of privatization and is owned by a transnational.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
New Zealand says no to foreign water bottling investors! Well done! Canada needs to follow suit! Government will no longer put NZ freshwater up for sale, says Ardern
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
A deliberate policy of starvation of First Nations people... Here is what Sir John A. Macdonald did to Indigenous people | National Post
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
❤️ this!!!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
There is no place in my Canada for this kind of hate. One can have political disagreements without this call to violence and extremism. Anti-Trudeau billboards advertising Alberta Wexit campaign cause an uproar
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
6 years
OMG this gives me hope Muslims Surround Toronto Synagogues With Protective ‘Rings Of Peace’ | HuffPost Canada
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
5 years
Good riddance! Billionaire Koch brothers dump Canada's oilsands leases as foreign exodus continues, via @NationalPost
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
BC is on fire! The government must halt commercial bottled water operations! It is insanity to export billions of litres of groundwater when it is desperately needed for watersheds. What is the government thinking???
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
5 years
Love it!! Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
8 years
It's official! Wallonia is staying strong, there will be no CETA signed until it's legitimate concerns are met. Thank you Wallonia!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
6 years
I will boycott Tim Hortons. Multiple Tim Hortons franchises, other Ontario businesses cut pay, benefits
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
When the Conservatives go after the government for not having a Canadian vaccine, please ask them to explain why they were so silent when their government sold off Connaught, the jewel of bio tech research and many others in our high tech sector.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
6 years
Huge good news! Kinder Morgan suspending all non essential spending on Trans Mountain pipeline!!! Resistance matters!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
Water is disappearing in the American West. I predict it only a matter of time before there are “discussions” on exporting Canadian water.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
Wow! This is huge!
@foe_us
Friends of the Earth (Action)
3 years
HUGE WIN! Sri Lanka is banning all palm oil imports and getting rid of existing plantations within its borders! This full stop approach will help boost soil health, promote biodiversity, & protect local jobs for the island nation.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
I screamed at an anti vaccine convoy in Ottawa today as a young woman supporter in braids sweetly assured me it was about “freedom from fascism.” My father fought five hard years in the war against fascism and I just lost it.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
So cool! Love, love, love this!!! The #ProudBoys Twitter hashtag has been taken over by gay men - CNN
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
Yes! Another example that fighting bad projects is worth it! Amazon will not build giant warehouse on wetland in Pickering
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
Should rivers have the same rights as people? | Environment | The Guardian My answer: humans won’t survive unless we place protecting Mother Earth at the centre of our lives and laws.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
I love this!!!! The Big Apple in Colborne, Ont. is now wearing a mask
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
8 years
Wallonia President Magnette says democratic debate (about CETA) is not the cause of Europe's troubles, but their solution! Stay strong!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
Wow! Vast majority of Canadians want profound changes post Covid.
@VoiceOfFranky
Frank Graves
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This is the most important thing to keep in view. The possibility of changes that would not have been possible without this human suffering and disruption , might produce a better world
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
Don’t forget that the extremist right wing group Ontario Proud supported the new Conservative leader. Erin O’Toole is getting a boost from a right-wing group’s database
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
Ten years ago today, Anil Naidoo, Meera Karunananthan and I stood in the balcony of the UN General Assembly as it voted to recognize the human right to water. Proudest moment of my working life.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
9 months
The links between US far right Republicans and the Conservative Party of Canada go deep and are very disturbing.
@ItsDeanBlundell
Dean Blundell🇨🇦
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🚨🚨Former Canadian PM Stephen Harper’s Assistant Chairman of the International Democratic Union, Mike Roman, indicted yesterday in Georgia along with Trump @TheJasonPugh
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
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Alberta is in deep drought. 70 % of Canada is currently in drought. Why did we think it wouldn’t happen here? Our “myth of abundance” has caused us to take our water for granted. We have not cared for it.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
1 year
Poilievre is a national embarrassment. Childish, churlish, not fit to govern.
@glen_mcgregor
Glen McGregor
1 year
Poilievre's office confirms this letter was sent to David Johnston (and not just posted here).
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
Please join this campaign to stop bottled water takings in BC. B.C. say no to water bottling licences
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
9 years
Media says that governments are reporting to industry "stakeholders"on TPP progress. I guess the public is not a stakeholder.
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Maude Barlow
2 years
Doonesbury nails it.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
Money is pouring in to these occupiers. Look at the size of the donations! Only one source was shut down. The American far right is funding a Canadian insurrection!
@jeremybleroux
Jeremy Leroux
2 years
So who might want to look into this "donation" for $215000 USD for #FluTrucksKlan on givesendgo I think Canadian public deserve to know @PennyDaflos seems there could be some foreign money flowing in fast.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
My oped on the plastics ban. Please share. What good is a single-use plastics ban if it doesn't include water bottles? | National Observer | Maude Barlow
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
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She is as dreadful as her husband. Canadians take heed. PP would be a terrible Prime Minister.
@janjette
JanineGio
8 months
There’s something about the opposition leader’s wife supporting those that want to bring down the Prime Minister of Canada that seems very very wrong. #NeverVoteConservative #UnCanadian
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
6 years
Doug Ford creating his own news network is deeply disturbing and profoundly undemocratic.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
5 years
Alberta officials are signalling they have no idea how to clean up toxic oilsands tailings ponds | National Observer
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
6 years
Sign the petition to have federal government take over Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot the Ford killed!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
6 years
Trump’s announcement of a trade deal with Mexico and to hell with Canada shows what we said 30 years ago about free trade with the US: putting all our trade apples in one basket would give the US government and American corporations too much power over Canada. We were right!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
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Incredible story that links the horrific fire in Maui to decades of destroying streams, wetlands and groundwater as well as deforestation and soil erosion. Climate change played a part but there are other causes.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
7 years
NAFTA renegotiation must remove all references to water as a tradable good, service or investment.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
5 years
On this Labour Day, I give thanks to labour unions and all they have done and continue to do to provide justice for working people and their families here in Canada and around the world. Everyone benefits from a strong labour movement.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
Time to end bottled water industry! Safe, accessible public water for all has to be our goal. Environmental impact of bottled water ‘up to 3,500 times greater than tap water’ | The Guardian
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
7 years
Trudeau government abandons promise on electoral reform. Cynicism among the young over politics already so deep. We didn't need this.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
5 years
Brilliant op ed Gordon Laxer: Best way to forge unity is to get Canada to post-carbon future – Vancouver Sun
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
But not plastic water bottles?!? Shame!!!
@CBCAlerts
CBC News Alerts
4 years
Update @CBCNews : Plastic cutlery, straws, stir sticks, grocery bags, 6-pack rings, some takeout food containers among single-use plastic items to be banned in Canada next year.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
I am proudly among them. We need Catherine in office.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
Today is the publication date of my new book Still Hopeful. And of course International Women’s day! Never needed women’s led hope and activism more than now.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
What a great mayor Catherine will make!!!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
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Terrible story. Wake up Canada! This is the most important story of all! A planet running out of water. ‘There's no water': This duck hunter in Fort Smith, N.W.T., went out and found no ducks | CBC News
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
Wow! Solidarity!
@bctf
BC Teachers’ Federation
2 years
CUPE members in Ontario, your fight is our fight! Unions across Canada supported us in our battle to protect Charter rights and now we are here for you. Our Rep Assembly just voted to send you $1million so you don’t have to back down. @CUPEOntario @osbcucscso #onted #cdnpoli
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Maude Barlow
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Yesterday was my 75th birthday. I spent it in the lovely “Blue Community” of Marburg Germany. Here I am sitting with Mayor Thomas Spies on my birthday gift - a bench dedicated to me and an ancient rosebuds planted in my name. Ask me if I cried…
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
1 year
“Freedom” convoy self destructing. Good news in so many ways.
@pressprogress
PressProgress
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“We were hijacked – full stop.” 2023 ‘Freedom Convoy’ reunion is officially cancelled, convoy organizer says. #cdnpoli #mbpoli #ottnews
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
Outrageous! Everyone must say no to this terrible practice! Alberta rescinds decades-old policy that banned open-pit coal mines in Rockies and Foothills
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
8 years
Council founder Mel Hurtig passed away today. We mourn our friend and mentor.
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Maude Barlow
4 years
‘We’re in a David-and-Goliath situation.’ Small Ontario town taking on Nestle to save its water | The Star Great front page story on our fight to stop Nestle. Take the pledge on our site. Boycott Nestle!!!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
3 years
OMG. What about whether the earth is round or flat? Conservatives debate whether to declare that 'climate change is real' at policy convention
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Maude Barlow
5 years
Wonderful news at last for our dear friends! New water plant for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation under boil water advisories for 22 years | National Observer
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Maude Barlow
1 year
So the UN just concluded its first conference in nearly 50 years on water - a landmark - and no coverage in mainstream media here in Canada. The “myth of abundance” about our water is alive and well! What a travesty.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
8 years
The Berlin regional Parliament has voted not to ratify CETA! Opposition is growing in Germany. No easy ride ahead for CETA, deal or no deal
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Maude Barlow
4 years
On this International Women’s Day, I am proud to be the new Chancellor of Brescia University College, the only women’s university left in Canada. At Brescia, we nourish the values of social justice, human rights and women’s leadership.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
So very moving. Only Banksy….
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
Lovely Canada Day message
@Peacebychoco
Peace by Chocolate
4 years
To the country of freedom, diversity, compassion, kindness, and empathy: Thank you for defining hope to those who lost it and thank you for the welcome and the love that you shared and continue to share with us. From all the Hadhads of Peace by Chocolate, Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦
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Maude Barlow
3 years
Report calls for ban on water-bottling plants in B.C.'s arid Interior | Vancouver Sun Please support this campaign. Allowing corporations to profit from BC’s water in the midst of drought is insanity!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
5 years
Amazon rainforest deforestation 'worst in 10 years' - the destruction of the Amazon is directly related to massive drought in the south of Brazil. Will get worse under the terrible Bolsonaro.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
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These children won a Court Case in Colombia to protect the Amazon. In Quito right now we are hearing from the childrens’ lawyers. So moving.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
For-profit nursing homes have four times as many COVID-19 deaths as city-run homes, Star analysis finds | The Star
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Maude Barlow
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Incredible victory! The Tŝilhqot'in Nation wraps 30-year fight with massive victory over Taseko Mines | National Observer This is another First Nations battle the Council of Canadians supported!
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
2 years
@matthewwalther It is shocking that The Atlantic would publish this garbage. Come to Canada and see people masked everywhere and understand why our Covid numbers are much lower. Shameful article.
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Maude Barlow
2 years
In my whole life I have never been afraid to walk the streets of my city in broad daylight. I cannot believe what is happening and the feeling of impending violence.
@CharlieAngusNDP
Charlie Angus
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I came out to support the peaceful walk by local citizens in Ottawa's downtown. But the walk was cancelled by security officials. Neighbourhoods have been turned over to the Jan6th crowd. The failure of @ottawapolice to handle #occupationottawa will make a great case study.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
5 years
The destruction of the Earth is a crime. It should be prosecuted | George Monbiot | The Guardian
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Maude Barlow
5 years
Happy World Water Day! I celebrate it today in Montreal where the City of Montreal and McGill Universty are becoming Blue Communities! They promise to protect water as a human right and public trust and phase out plastic water bottles.
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
4 years
May the Goddess speed them 97 orcas and belugas make the long trip to freedom after release from Russia's 'whale jail' | CBC News
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@MaudeBarlow
Maude Barlow
9 years
Says it all.... http://t.co/n8C2uNzNhk
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Maude Barlow
1 year
This is disgusting. The convoy people were horrible, violent and many were racist. Shame on the Alberta government for honouring Lich.
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Max Fawcett 🇨🇦
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