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Answer :

Since you register your $on listener on$rootScope, it doesn't get destroyed with the controller and next time you init the controller it gets created again.

You should create your listener on controller scope

$scope.$on('menuActivateActionPublish', function(event) {}); 

Be careful you avoid two instances of the controller means two event listeners, which means the method gets executed twice !! ( example: using twice 'ng-controller' )

To complement que1326 answer, as an example, if you are using ui-router and have something like

.state('app.yourpage', {             url:'yourPage',             views: {                 'content@': {                     templateUrl : 'views/yourPage.html',                     controller  : 'YourController'                 }             }         }) 

and in yourPage.html you have a ng-controller="YourController as Ctrl", then you are creating 2 instances of the controller: 1 instance is created by the state configuration and another one in your html.