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[He has been investing in Big Tobacco for quite a few years]
The Gates Foundation and big tobacco
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| The Gates Foundation has finally come clean
| and terminated its tobacco control grant
| with the Canadian International Development
| Research Centre as its new (Liberal, shame)
| leader was on the board of Imperial
| Tobacco. Though it took action by ATSA for
| them to do so. No one looks good in this:
| the Gates Foundation and the IDRC and
| Barbara McDougall have egg on their faces.
| Philippe Boucher at Tobacco Control in
| Africa has been on this case from the
| beginning. Well done. This is the kind of
| citizen action that demands accountability
| from the Gates Foundation.
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http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/4/11/4502617.html
Gates charity miffed by alleged conflict-of-interest involving federal official
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/bill-gates-charity-cuts-grant-to-canadian-project-to-curb-smoking-in-africa-90704054.html
Gates charity miffed by alleged conflict-of-interest involving federal official
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| Bill Gates's charitable foundation has
| snuffed out a $5.2-million grant to a
| Canadian initiative to curb smoking in
| Africa, citing troubling federal links to
| the tobacco industry.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jEqcKJAj88-S7Vr-Jyjl5xl1NQCQ
IDRC-ATSA's "situational analyses" (pre-publication versions)
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/africa/2010/04/idrcatsas-situational-analyses-prepublication-versions.html
The IDRC/Gates Foundation story is also in the New York Times but they don't say Barbara McDougall's affiliation with BAT was discovered by Tobacco Control in Africa's blogger Philippe Boucher
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/africa/2010/04/the-idrcgates-foundation-story-is-also-in-the-new-york-times-but-they-dont-say-barbara-mcdougalls-af.html
Gates Foundation Stops Grant to Canadian Research Center
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/business/global/13gates.html
The IDRC/Gates Foundation story is also in the Seattle Times
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/africa/2010/04/the-idrcgates-foundation-story-is-also-in-the-seattle-times.html
Gates Foundation pulls funding from IDRC
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Gates-Foundation-pulls-funding-from-IDRC-1146054.htm
Bill Gatesâs charity nixes grant to project
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1176952.html
ATCA's reaction to the termination of IDRC grant by the Gates Foundation
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/africa/2010/04/atcas-reaction-to-the-termination-of-idrc-grant-by-the-gates-foundation.html
Anti-tobacco group loses Gates grant; its chair was cigarette company director
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| The Gates Foundation took the unusual step
| of terminating a grant, this one for a
| Canadian group engaged in tobacco control,
| after the chair of its board was exposed as
| a director of Canada's largest cigarette
| maker.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thebusinessofgiving/2011591896_the_conflicts_and_potential_co.html
Canada gets 'black eye'
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| When there was no response to the March 15
| letters to authorities, the Gates
| Foundation acted while various participants
| in the IDRC program known as RITC (Research
| for International Tobacco Control) and
| observers such as Collishaw's group made
| public their concerns.
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http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Canada+gets+black/2876282/story.html
Gates foundation cuts support over tobacco
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Gates+foundation+cuts+support+over+tobacco/2876871/story.html
Memo to Barbara McDougall: Resign!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/douglas-bell/memo-to-barbara-mcdougall-resign/article1533258/
Gates Foundation cuts funding linked to tobacco companies
http://www.thedailytell.com/2010/04/gates-foundation-cuts-funding-linked-to-tobacco-companies/
Gates charity miffed by alleged conflict-of-interest involving federal official
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/live/article/501294--bill-gates-charity-cuts-grant-to-canadian-project-to-curb-smoking-in-africa
Gates Foundation Cuts Funds to Canadian Project Over Tobacco Link
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| Barbara J. McDougall, a former member of
| parliament who chairs the Canadian
| government's International Development
| Research Centre, also served until a few
| weeks ago as a director of Imperial Tobacco
| Canada, that country's largest tobacco
| firm.
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http://philanthropy.com/blogPost/Gates-Foundation-Cuts-Funds-to/22515/
Gates Foundation revokes Canadian tobacco control grant
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/04/12/daily21.html
Grant lost over chairwomanâs tobacco links
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/04/12/13559511-qmi.html
Gates Foundation cuts support to Canadian agency over tobacco connection
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Gates+Foundation+cuts+support+Canadian+agency+over+tobacco+connection/2875590/story.html
Gates charity cuts funding to Canadian anti-smoking project in Africa
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/gates-charity-cuts-funding-to-canadian-anti-smoking-project-in-africa/article1532173/
Recent:
Tobacconists Cry Foul Over More False Anti-Smoking Propaganda.
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| "For us to take on WHO is like David
| taking on Goliath. Weâre not âbig tobaccoâ
| and our mom-and-pop retail members are
| just small businesses selling legal
| products that adults enjoy like fine wine
| or top-shelf Scotch whiskey," McCalla
| said, "but we cannot stand by while WHO
| makes outlandish and outrageous claims
| that are an affront to the intelligence of
| all thinking people," he said.
|
| McCalla chose not to repeat the
| controversial WHO claims so as not to give
| them further coverage. However, he
| explained that they had to do with alleged
| health issues related to smoking and
| secondhand smoke.
|
| "They say there are no safe levels of
| secondhand smoke, but the Occupational
| Safety and Health Administration says
| otherwise," McCalla explained. "OSHA has,
| indeed, set safe levels for secondhand
| smoke and those levels are 25,000 times
| higher than are found in bars and
| restaurants."
|
| Among contributors to WHO is the Bill and
| Melinda Gates Foundation which, despite
| its support for WHOâs work with preventing
| and treating malaria, has been criticized
| by top WHO staffers for not allowing its
| funding to be more broadly spent.
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http://capstan-tobacco.livejournal.com/75169.html
University of Colorado at Boulder Falls Prey to Philip Morris' Strategic Philanthropy
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| Notwithstanding that a federal court in
| 2006 found Philip Morris guilty of
| engaging in 50 years of public fraud and
| racketeering, a peer-reviewed study of
| tobacco industry documents conducted by
| the University of California San
| Francisco's Center for Tobacco Control
| Research and Education looked at why
| tobacco companies so robustly promote Life
| Skills Training.
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http://www.prwatch.org/node/8733
WHO officially announces the $10 million grant of the Gates Foundation to promote tobacco control in Africa
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| We had previously informed our readers of
| this grant awarded in August. The press
| release does not provide details about the
| way the funds will be managed, the type of
| governance that will be -eventually
| chosen-, what African NGOs will eventually
| participate, how transparency and
| accountability will be implemented, issues
| that are very important and were
| specifically addressed by the Gates
| Foundation in the $7 million project
| awarded to the American Cancer Society.
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http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/africa/
Jeffrey Drope of Marquette University is awarded approximately $118.300 to organize the data collected by the ATSA teams
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| This contract was apparently signed in
| June 2009. Its size is substantial: $451K
| represent about 8,5% of the global budget
| of $5.2 millions provided to IDRC by the
| Gates Foundation.
| The post on the IDRC's site does not say
| what the participation of the African
| advocates is and if they'll receive any
| part of the financial support that is
| given to Jeffrey Drope (who had previously
| been awarded smaller consulting
| contracts).
| Jeffrey Drope is the brother of Jacqui
| Drope who is the senior program officer of
| the ATSA program. Her name usually appears
| when ATSA grants are advertised but in
| this case it is replaced by Greg Hallen
| (new RITC program leader).
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http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/africa/2009/11/jeffrey-drope-of-marquette-university-is-awarded-478-500-cad-451-252-to-organize-the-data-collected-.html#more
Related:
Gates Foundation Investments Often Don't Jibe With Philanthropic Priorities
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| In the first article, the newspaper notes that the Gates Foundation has
| invested in companies like Chevron Corporation, Eni, Exxon Mobil Corporation,
| Royal Dutch Shell, and Totalâall responsible for gas flares that pollute the
| Niger Delta, shooting out chemicals and soot that may be causing the regionâs
| alarmingly high rates of respiratory diseases, cancer, and blurred vision and
| also lowering immunityâwhile the foundation is making grants to fight disease
| in Africa.
|
| In the second article, the newspaper notes that Gates is heavily invested in
| companies that have ties to tobacco, alcohol, and gambling.
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http://philanthropy.com/news/?id=1753&pth&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=lefttop
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttq0IdULfjg
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnqnMHQ1c
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio
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| ...the Gates Foundation took down their public statement on this
| and replaced it with a significantly altered version which seems to
| say that investing responsibly would just be too complex for them
| and that they need to focus on their core mission: 'There are
| dozens of factors that could be considered, almost all of which
| are outside the foundation's areas of expertise. The issues
| involved are quite complex...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/1756212&from=rss
Gates Foundationâs Influence Criticized
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| The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that
| the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping
| out the world health agencyâs policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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