@ December 10, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Dear Mr. Jack Layton, I write to you today with the utmost urgency behind what I write. What I am about to impress upon you is in need of serious consideration by yourself, your party, and the membership base of the New Democratic Party. Mr. Layton, your actions since you took over the reigns of the NDP [...]
@ December 9, 2003 # No Comment Yet
THE PARABLE OF SAMARRADecember 9, 2003John Chuckman Front-page stories announced the greatest battle since the end of combat in Iraq with fifty-four insurgents killed and not an American soldier lost. We were given breathtaking details about two separate, coordinated attacks, the firing of rocket-propelled grenades at American vehicles, and the fact that many of the [...]
@ December 7, 2003 # No Comment Yet
In January 2002, President Bush announced his intention to “explore a free trade agreement with the countries of Central America,†modeled after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and as another precursor to the proposed region-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas, scheduled to be achieved by 2005. The Central American Free Trade Agreement [...]
@ December 6, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Dear Wayne, I just read the story about your proposing a Canadian version of the US “Office of Homeland Security”. Time to consider need for national security agency, says solicitor general and I have a number of concerns about this undertaking. First, I do not have any serious objections to maintaining necessary security in Canada, [...]
@ December 4, 2003 # No Comment Yet
TORONTO, Dec. 1 — Canadians and Americans still dress alike, talk alike, like the same books, television shows and movies, and trade more goods and services than ever before. But from gay marriage to drug use to church attendance, a chasm has opened up on social issues that go to the heart of fundamental values. [...]
@ December 3, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Dear Ashley Ford, What a story! Too bad it’s all poppycock. You fail to mention that UPS is the same company that is looking to tear down Canada Post, take over only the profitable routes and let rural Canada suffer. As well lets look at what both you and Weidemeyer have to say. “No development [...]
@ December 3, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Greg Palast reporting from CaracasSaturday, November 29, 2003 It's as if they were locked in a crypt for the last ten years. The finance ministers of every Latin American nation last week signed on to a resolution in principle to join the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the hemispheric expansion of NAFTA. The [...]
@ December 2, 2003 # No Comment Yet
LIA LEVESQUE MONTREAL – More than 60 per cent of Canadians are concerned about knowing if the products they buy are made in Canada, an opinion poll suggests. Sixty-three per cent of respondents in the Leger Marketing survey said they were interested in knowing, compared with 35 per cent who weren't. They were asked the [...]