@ January 31, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Martinizing MarriageUsing the Supreme Court as a tool for election“Insiders say that at a recent meeting of the Liberal caucus, David Herle, co-chair of the national campaign and an influential Martin insider, told MPs that the same-sex issue had to be “punted” before the next election.”The Globe and Mail, Jan. 29, 2004“As for Cotler, his [...]
@ January 30, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Hellyer Resigns as CAP Leader and Calls for Leadership Convention.“It is with profound regret that I now realize the New Democratic Party has declined the proposal of the Canadian Action Party to merge in order to form the nucleus of a new mainline progressive pro-Canada party which would offer Canadians a real alternative in the [...]
@ January 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Fellow Canadians,Last year, former Industry Minister Allan Rock awarded U.S. military contractor Lockheed Martin and its consortium of companies the contract to prepare a 2005 test run of the next Canadian census. Despite intense opposition from Canadians, Lockheed Martin is still a prime candidate to receive a contract to do the entire Canadian census in [...]
@ January 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet
According to the latest Ipsos-Reid/CTV/Globe and Mail poll released today, the majority of Canadians feel they do not know enough about any of the new Conservative Party leadership hopefuls to be able to form an opinion about them. Three quarters (77%) of Canadians state they don’t know enough about Tony Clement to form an opinion [...]
@ January 26, 2004 # No Comment Yet
OTTAWA—This week’s RCMP raid on Ottawa Citizen reporter Juliet O’Neill is exemplary of police state mentality, said NDP Leader Jack Layton, who today with Clayton Ruby, held a press conference calling for Paul Martin to immediately announce a full public inquiry into Maher Arar and commit to scrapping C-36 in the Throne Speech.“This is exactly [...]
@ January 24, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Making the urban-rural connection
As Toronto expands, we are becoming further and further removed from the farms that provide the shrink-wrapped food we buy. As urbanites we need to reconnect with how our food is produced, how our waste is disposed and what really is a fair price for food.
Increasingly industrialized agri-businesses export food from the [...]
@ January 22, 2004 # No Comment Yet
With missile defence looming over all Canadians heads as it will be dictated by Paul Martin and the federal Liberal party there is a growing concern among Canadians from coast to coast.Those wishing to know more about NMD try Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence by Ernie Regehr, the Director of Project Ploughshares, written on behalf [...]
@ January 21, 2004 # No Comment Yet
January 21, 2004DOES THE AMERICAN ELECTION MATTER?John ChuckmanPresidential elections in America are long, with formal campaigns lasting about a year and positioning leading to the campaigns lasting nearly three years. A President's four-year term of office leaves just enough time to dish out contracts and jobs.There is nothing out of the ordinary in America about [...]
@ January 21, 2004 # No Comment Yet
January 21 2004By Ricardo RantThe far right in Canada are just ordinary regular fellow Canadians. How do I know? Because they said so that is why!You see as of late the henchmen (women) for the campaign to head the far right Conservative Party of Canada has taken on a surreal turn to the poor side. Each [...]
@ January 19, 2004 # No Comment Yet
An interesting find today… it appears that at Paul Martin's hype site there is a poll asking visitors what they think the Canadian government should do around the issue of entering into talks with the United States over missile defence.It seems his own visitors are much in line with the rest of Canada - “Reject [...]