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Former Amazon.com Inc. AMZN-Q workers and labour organizers visited some of the e-commerce giant’s Quebec locations Friday as part of a global movement urging the company to stop “squeezing” workers, communities and the planet. Mostafa Henaway, a former Amazon worker and labour activist with the Immigrant Workers Center, said he and others would approach workers at the YUL2 and DXT6 facilities in Lachine to remind them of their rights and encourage their employer to do better. “We’re out here today with other Amazon associates around the world to say enough is enough,” said Henaway, who worked at the DTX4 delivery centre in Laval, Que. “At what cost is fast and free shipping?” The visit timed to Black Friday – one of the Seattle-based firm’s busiest periods – is meant to push the company to pay fair wages, taxes and better account for its affect on the environment. It’s part of the Make Amazon Pay movement, which will see Amazon workers and labour rights groups in at least 30 countri...

A person walks by a lit up sign during the COP15 conference in Montreal, on Dec. 7. ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP/Getty Images Canada’s negotiators at the COP15 conference say business groups and financial institutions have a role to play in preserving the planet’s biodiversity. Basile van Havre, co-chair of one of the Montreal conference’s working groups, says the private sector is looking for rules and certainty on the environmental effectiveness of its investments. He says it’s part of a larger push for performance standards that companies and investors can use to measure their activities against. The conference, which is bringing more than 190 nations together, is entering its second day of hard talks on hard targets for saving the world’s biodiversity. What’s on the agenda at the UN’s COP15 nature summit in Montreal? Negotiators hope to reach an agreement on how to protect 30 per cent of Earth’s land and water, as well as a deal on how to pay for that conservation. Van Havre says business g...