@ January 19, 2004 # No Comment Yet
January 19, 2004 OTTAWA, onTARIO – Tomorrow, a coalition of NGOs led by the Council of Canadians will present arguments to the Supreme Court of Canada in the Schmeiser vs Monsanto case, which has captivated the international community. In 2001, the Federal Court of Appeal found that Schmeiser had infringed on Monsanto’s patent rights to [...]
@ January 16, 2004 # No Comment Yet
January 16 2003 Thinking people aren't surprised to be told that failed-oilman George Bush qualifies as a moral and intellectual dry hole. Bush's halting words come from a mouth so long smugly-set it can scarcely form the shapes of vowels, but enormous ignorance also manages to come through. Still, it never hurts to have a [...]
@ January 15, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Martin J. Whittles One of the ironies of Canada is that it often takes us much longer to reconcile ourselves with the consequences of historical events than it took for them to unfold in the first place. Perhaps no people in Canada are more painfully aware of this than the Tlicho (Dogrib) Dene of [...]
@ January 14, 2004 # No Comment Yet
U.S. border agents will soon have access to the immigration and tax records of Canadian residents for use in nabbing terrorists before they cross the American border. U.S. officials said an impending merger of Canadian and U.S. immigration and customs databases will also help them intercept illegal aliens, criminals and fugitives. Officials said the measure [...]
@ January 13, 2004 # No Comment Yet
In the next few days, British Columbia's government will decide the fate of South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park. The mining industry is pressuring government to change the park's boundaries, or eliminate it altogether. This decision concerns me greatly as the park, located just north of Whistler, is an ecological jewel. If you don't want the boundaries of South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park [...]
@ January 13, 2004 # No Comment Yet
The somewhat casually-convened Summit of the Americas gathering in Monterrey, Mexico, that begins today is more likely to be long on art and less on meat, more on rhetoric than on substance, and more focused on matters pertaining to the Bush re-election campaign than on issues that are of core relevance to the rest of [...]
@ January 12, 2004 # No Comment Yet
VANCOUVER – In what they called a historic meeting, 160 unelected men and women gathered on the weekend and began debating whether B.C.'s government should be chosen in a different way. It was the first meeting of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform – a government-appointed group of ordinary citizens randomly chosen from B.C.'s 79 [...]
@ January 11, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Originally sent to the Editor of the Toronto Star: RE: Guns in the skies (Jan 2 2003), wherein you say at one point – “…Al Qaeda terrorists seized four U.S. passenger planes and flew them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing thousands…” I wonder if I might inquire how [...]
@ January 10, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Dear Premier Williams, I notice from the news headlines a couple of days ago that your province is facing some serious budgetary shortfalls, and is in the position of having to cut back spending. At least according to popular economic theory, and the suggestions from the Canadian business press and like-minded people. Perhaps, however, it [...]
@ January 10, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Star Wars UN-Canadian “Canada’s decision in principle to support the U.S. missile defense system is morally wrong,” said Paul Hellyer, former minister of Defence and Leader of the Canadian Action Party. “It will be seen as affirmation of the Pentagon’s plan to impose U.S. ‘values and interests’ (the interests of the U.S. industrial-military complex) on [...]