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In compiling CPPC, we make a point of including reports on issues in the headlines:
Oilsands Contamination
 "A water monitoring committee that reviewed different studies on oilsands pollutants said it will stand behind research led by University of Alberta scientists and called for future monitoring to be more scientifically rigorous." [Edmonton Journal]
Alberta Environment Evaluation of Four Reports on Contamination of the Athabasca River System by Oil Sands Operations March 2011. Access PDF.
Impact of Shale-gas Industry in Quebec
"A freeze imposed across Quebec on the shale-gas industry for the next two years responds positively to '95 per cent' of the environmental and other objections that had been raised by Equiterre and a large cross-section of other groups." [Montreal Gazette]
Bureau des audience publiques en environnement Développement durable de l'industrie des gaz de schiste au Québec: Rapport d'enquête et d'audience publique février 2011. Accéder PDF
Canada's Water 10 Years after Walkerton
 "More than a decade after the Walkerton tragedy... Canada remains 'vulnerable to future water-quality failures, most likely in smaller systems'... Placing responsibility for drinking water upon municipalities is a "structural flaw." [Environment Probe]
C.D. Howe Institute Safe Drinking Water Policy for Canada: Turning Hindsight into Foresight February 2011. Access PDF.
Telecommunications Bandwidth
"As public frustration with telecommunications services mounts, a relatively obscure government consultation... deserves far more attention.... No issue will have a greater impact on the next ten years of Canadian digital policy." [M. Geist - Toronto Star]
Industry Canada Consultation on a Policy and Technical Framework for the 700 MHz Band and Aspects Related to Commercial Mobile Spectrum November 2010. Access PDF.
Industrie Canada Consultation sur un cadre politique et technique visant la bande de 700 MHz et les aspects liés au spectre mobile commercial novembre 2010. Accéder PDF
Ontario Welfare and Housing Policies
"Linda Chamberlain left her dream job because it was making her broke. She's richer earning nothing, living in her subsidized apartment and getting monthly disability cheques from the government - $260 a month richer." [Toronto Star]
Metcalf Foundation "Zero Dollar Linda": A Meditation on Malcolm Gladwell's "Million Dollar Murray," the Linda Chamberlain Rule, and the Auditor General of Ontario November 2011. Access PDF.
Civil Rights Violations at the Toronto G20
"In their report on police handling of the G20 protests last June in Toronto... two organizations imply that police and firefighters may have permitted vandalism to occur in order to give officers an excuse for a violent crackdown on protesters." [National Post]
National Union of Public and General Employees & Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Breach of the Peace: A Citizens' Inquiry into Policing and Governance at the Toronto G20 Summit: Public Hearings, November 10 to 12, 2010, Toronto and Montreal February 2011. Access PDF .
NL Fishery Restructuring
"The report, prepared by an independent committee... recommends changes such as slashing inshore fishing fleets by up to 80 per cent.... Fisheries Minister Clyde Jackman criticized the report, saying he will not endorse it for cabinet." [CBC News]
Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Report of the Independent Chair: MOU Steering Committee: Newfoundland and Labrador Fishing Industry Rationalization and Restructuring February 2011. Access PDF
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