@ July 30, 2003 # No Comment Yet
By Paul HarrisYellowTimes.org Columnist (Canada) Recently Lorrie Goldstein, editor of the Toronto Sun, wrote an editorial entitled, “Peacekeeping myth trashed,” and was intended to point out that for all Canada has portrayed itself as a nation of peacekeepers, we are actually deluding everyone. According to Mr. Goldstein, the leading nation in the world for peacekeeping [...]
@ July 30, 2003 # No Comment Yet
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
The Council of Canadians strongly condemns the use of police force to shut down the expression of dissent at the WTO mini-ministerial, which is taking place at the Montreal Sheraton Hotel. Over a hundred protesters were rounded up and arrested for “unlawful assembly”.
Most of these protesters had not been engaged in the destruction [...]
@ July 29, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Statement by the RQIC and the Council of Canadians on the occasion of the WTO Mini-Ministerial in Montreal
A meeting of trade ministers from some 25 member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is being held in Montreal from July 28 to 30, 2003. The purpose of this meeting, dubbed a “Mini-Ministerial†by the Department [...]
@ July 29, 2003 # No Comment Yet
OTTAWA, July 26, 2003
The WTO mini-ministerial, set to begin in Montreal on Monday, is an undemocratic process where the Quad (Canada, US, EU, Japan) are working behind the doors to ensure their agenda once again prevails at the next Ministerial Conference, in Cancun.
To the CFWTO, the Montreal meeting will attempt to divide and conquer [...]
@ July 29, 2003 # No Comment Yet
One Big Party: Canada's only HopeBy Paul HellyerA big new progressive pro-Canada party remains the only hope to save Canada and keep it independent. A close look at the realpolitik makes the case.A lot of water has gone under the political bridge in the year 2003 and there is more to come. First, the NDP [...]
@ July 28, 2003 # No Comment Yet
CDMJuly 28 2003The latest round of corporate control and dominance is now playing itself out in Montreal, and it seems International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew finds lawful assembly in Canada as a hindrance to the advancement of the removal of trade barriers and tariffs. Pettigrew was quoted as saying, “If they want to stop [...]
@ July 26, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Friends of the Earth calls for owners of pre-1988 cars to consider their options in putting these gross polluters out to pasture.“Car makers were not under the same pressure to address clean air and climate protection then as compared to now”, says Beatrice Olivastri, Chief Executive Officer for Friends of the Earth. “The very rudimentary [...]
@ July 25, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Roy WhyteCDMJuly 25 2003It seems that in Canada farmers mean very little. Never mind that thousands of Canadians are being affected by the beef ban, Bombardier has been hurt by a 'downturn' in the economy. Ottawa has been very reluctant to help out Canadian farmers devastated by the beef ban. Yet at the same time they [...]
@ July 24, 2003 # No Comment Yet
In factory after factory around the world, Gap workers have described working conditions that harken back to the turn of the last century–physical abuse, sexual harassment, poverty wages and unsafe working conditions. But when Gap workers try to organize unions to defend their rights, they often face severe harassment, are fired and sometimes are even [...]
@ July 24, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Roy WhyteCDMJuly 24, 2003 There has been some growing talk around the subject of retaliatory trade sanctions against those that have done the same in kind to Canada. This issue is not something new as Canada and its trading partners have faced this dilemma many times before. Only this time it seems many more Canadians are pushing [...]