@ October 21, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Roy Tyler WhyteCDMOct 21 2003 Maybe someone out there can explain why in Canada’s national media there is an abundance of attention to the merger or is that marriage, of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives, but no tough questions with that coverage? Sure they are asking who is going to be the leader [...]
@ October 19, 2003 # No Comment Yet
One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent is the Hon. Paul Hellyer’s newest exciting treatise oÂn Canadian politics. In it, Hellyer takes oÂn the key political and social issues of our time, ranging from the war oÂn Iraq, to the IMF and the World Bank, to the problems of poverty at home and abroad. Hellyer [...]
@ October 17, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Now let me see – NAFTA, major cutbacks in social spending, matching huge tax breaks to corporations, deregulation and privatisation, promoting “globalisation” with the attendant policies of reduced workers' rights and increased corporate “rights”, placing “pleasing/appeasing investors” at the TOP of the national priority list, demanding servitude to a “national debt” while pushing the National [...]
@ October 16, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Oct 16 2003By Ricardo Rant So it would appear Canada has a new unified voice of the right in the merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance. Otherwise – Harpering in a new Day is a new party, McKay? Orchard is left standing pulling the knife out of his back wondering what to [...]
@ October 16, 2003 # No Comment Yet
By Wayne Coady SPEAKER'S CORNER BILL COX, QC , says the only way to defend democracy is not to vote for socialism. It is not my purpose to defend or deny socialism here, but those reading Mr. Cox's elitist views should be mindful of the source of these ideas. The gentleman is entitled to express [...]
@ October 15, 2003 # No Comment Yet
R. vrs PowleyBy David Bentley On September 19, 2003, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered their decision in the Steve Powley case regarding Métis harvesting rights. In a unanimous decision the Court ruled that the Métis do, in fact, have aboriginal harvesting rights on par with First Nations. Mr. Powley had been charged with hunting [...]
@ October 15, 2003 # No Comment Yet
TOTAL GENERAL STRIKE IN LA PAZ AND EL ALTO, EVERYONE CONDEMN THE MASSACRE. translated by: Latinsol La Paz, October 14, 2003 (hr. 13:10).- One and a half million residents of the cities of La Paz and El Alto paralysed all public and private activities and in silence condemned the cruel massacre that tainted with blood [...]
@ October 12, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Tell Allan Rock that some things MUST remain CanadianIndustry Minister Allan Rock has awarded U.S. military company Lockheed Martin the contract to prepare a 2005 test run of the next Canadian census. Lockheed Martin, which manufactures ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction, is also a prime candidate to receive a contract to do [...]
@ October 11, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Thursday 9 October 2003 Amnesty International, Oxfam, IANSA Launch Global Control Arms Campaign The global arms trade is dangerously unregulated, and allows weapons to reach repressive governments, human rights abusers and criminals, says a new report released today. To address these concerns, three international organisations have joined to launch a global campaign in over 50 [...]
@ October 10, 2003 # No Comment Yet
By John ChuckmanOctober 10, 2003 California has just elected an adolescent fantasy as governor. one imagines fans, used to paying for Schwarzenegger's image projected on a screen, leaving rallies feeling blessed at having glimpsed him in the flesh – dyed hair, induced tan, eyebrow-waxing, capped teeth, and all – much as winners from a church [...]