@ August 26, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Do the Nike swoosh and the UN olive branch emblem belong together? Are McDonald's and Disney companies that represent universal educational and cultural values? Do giant oil companies like Shell, BP and Chevron hold the keys to sustainable development? UN Secretary General Kofi Annan thinks the answers might be yes, and he is leading a [...]
@ August 25, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Roy WhyteCDMAug 25 2003 As most Canadians already know, we are headed into a new era of Liberal leadership. This leadership is about to be passed by default to Paul Martin. While there is an outward appearance of a leadership campaign, the winner has all but already been named. Paul Martin will be the next [...]
@ August 25, 2003 # No Comment Yet
As part of an ongoing campaign to explore different issues by going to those that hold the reigns of power… the Canadian Democratic Movement presented three small questions. We posed three questions – the same questions – to each of the Federal Political parties. We picked at random which of the MPs we directed the questions [...]
@ August 24, 2003 # No Comment Yet
As a reminder and an introduction, http://www.vivelecanada.ca is a website and organization dedicated to protecting and improving Canadian sovereignty and democracy. Founded in January 2003, with my backing, it now receives over 13,000 hits a month, and the number has been increasing each month. It is fast becoming the main source of information about how [...]
@ August 23, 2003 # No Comment Yet
The 1999 war in Yugoslavia contributed to reinforcing strategic, military and intelligence ties between Washington and London. After the war in Yugoslavia, U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen and his British counterpart, Geoff Hoon, signed a “Declaration of Principles for Defence Equipment and Industrial Cooperation” so as to “improve cooperation in procuring arms and protecting technology [...]
@ August 23, 2003 # No Comment Yet
by Daisy Pitkin Campaign for Labor Rights Supporters of the FTAA claim that it will provide much-needed jobs to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean by promoting foreign investment. It is argued that the FTAA will give foreign investors certain guarantees and this will make them more likely to invest. The model of promoting [...]
@ August 23, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Five emergency-room nurses at St. Paul's Hospital have alleged to the Straight that a recent decision to privatize health-care security services will jeopardize people's lives. Three of those nurses–Alison Jordan, Kate Honner, and Hilary Henley–told the Straight they didn't object to having their names published in the paper. “The employees are brassed off like you [...]
@ August 22, 2003 # No Comment Yet
I am pleased to say that I am not writing this from prison. on Friday, 15 August 2003, the Quebec Superior Court ruled that the judge at my bail hearing had erred, and that I should be released without bail or any conditions on my right to protest. While representing myself at both hearings, I [...]
@ August 22, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Dear Comrades, As I write this, I am being held as a political prisoner following a demonstration in Montréal against meetings of the World Trade Organization. I am in prison partly as a consequence of my own tactics, which some fellow activists have had difficulty understanding, and partly as a consequence of others' tactics, which [...]
@ August 21, 2003 # No Comment Yet
By Paul Hellyer A 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 held its leadership [...]