@ May 30, 2003 # No Comment Yet
OTTAWA, onTARIO - The fight against the NAFTA's Chapter 11 is going a step further today: the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and the Council of Canadians served the federal government with evidence to support their legal challenge to this controversial chapter of the trade agreement.
@ May 29, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Roy Whyte
CDM
May 29 2003
Defence Minister John McCallum has made the announcement Thursday in the House of Commons that Canada may just partake in the Missile Defense scheme as proposed by the hawks in Washington.
We know this guy knows not the difference between Vimy and Vichy but what are he and the Federal Liberals thinking?
@ May 28, 2003 # One Comment
By Roy WhyteCDM May 28 2003With the release of Ottawa’s new poverty indicator comes some conclusions most of us already know – more of us are poor than ever before. Using the year 2000 as the guideline the findings show that there are more poor in Canada than they first thought. Almost four million Canadians [...]
@ May 25, 2003 # No Comment Yet
The April, 2001 Summit of the Americas in Quebec City put the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) on the map for many Canadians. Governments are negotiating yet another free trade deal that will extend the trade and investment provisions of NAFTA across the Americas - despite the demonstrated costs, including widening economic disparities [...]
@ May 24, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Canada at Peril
By Paul Hellyer
Canadian Action Party
Thirty-five years ago I would have scoffed at the idea that I would ever make a speech like this. It would have been beyond my imagination at the time. We lived in an imperfect but nevertheless progressive world. Capital, labour and government worked together in acceptable harmony to [...]
@ May 21, 2003 # 2 Comments
By Roy WhyteCDM May 21 2003As many already know Canada is under a real state of change since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement; otherwise known as NAFTA. These changes range from a more focused and concentrated trade with the US to unfair duties on our exports.Now that some years have elapsed [...]
@ May 19, 2003 # No Comment Yet
By Murray Dobbin
May 16, 2003 - Citizens and taxpayers in the Lower Mainland are on the verge of getting fleeced through what is euphemistically called a public private partnership - a P3 - for the Richmond-Airport-Vancouver Rapid Transit line. Having seen lots of these proposals, I can say that this one is about as [...]
@ May 18, 2003 # One Comment
CDM
May 18 2003
With the recent announcement of the startling statistic that some three million have perished in the civil war in the Congo, comes much confusion as to how it got that bad.
How is that so little is known about the conflict and that it has been largely ignored by the Western world? As [...]
@ May 14, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Canucklehead Press
VANCOUVER (CKP) - The city hums tonight with the heady buzz of beer-swilling Canadians preparing for an invasion. After Joe Canadian’s cry for national pride and another beer, there are reports of uprisings in every major Canadian city. Here in Vancouver, I spoke with recently commissioned generals Douglas Coupland - Gen-X guru - [...]
@ May 13, 2003 # No Comment Yet
As the Federal Liberal leadership campaign drags on in a style reminiscent of the Survivor show one thing has become very clear, Paul Martin is going to win.The win was never really in dispute since Jean Chretien announced he was going to step aside for new leadership. It the matter in which our next default [...]