@ March 31, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Thea Lee“Free trade” has been sold to the U.S. public and workers as a cure for all that ails us. Proponents of so-called free trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the granting of permanent normal trade relations to China have claimed that these [...]
@ March 30, 2004 # No Comment Yet
John ChuckmanCondoleezza Rice wants to bring democracy to the Middle East. Ms. Rice, an expert on what is now an obsolete subject, the Soviet Union, believes this can be done the way the United States brought democracy to Chile or Iran or Afghanistan - that is, by violently overthrowing governments. Does democracy come from the [...]
@ March 30, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Ricardo RantMarch 30 2004So, Stephen Harper has been crowned king of the conservative movement – like that was a surprise. There was little doubt as to the outcome, although, pleasantly Belinda Stronach at least made it a contest. Unlike the Liberal nomination, at least there is an outward appearance of democracy at work. Although [...]
@ March 26, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Roy WhyteMarch 26, 2004The Federal Budget time has come and gone once again. In its wake are a host of questions and a country feeling left out in the proverbial cold. Paul Martin's first budget as Prime Minister is a real loser and to quote Stephen Harper - “I wouldn't run on that”. Something [...]
@ March 26, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Dear Friends:Can you direct some volunteer time during the upcoming federal election to help reshape the Canadian political system? To help turn electoral politics upside-down, so we can put Canadian democracy right-side-up?The Prime Minister will soon call an election. And Fair Vote Canada will respond with its own call: “Make this the LAST unfair election!”Citizens [...]
@ March 25, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Canadians are being offered a very poor set of choices in the upcoming federal election. A choice between two pro-corporate takeover, pro-war, pro-integration with the USA parties (the virtually identical Liberal and Conservative parties) and the NDP, which is unelectable, currently languishing at 17% in the polls. The good news is that conditions are perfect [...]
@ March 24, 2004 # No Comment Yet
March 22 2002By Derrick O'KeefeThe “new†Conservative Party of Canada chose its “new†leader this past weekend. The convention featured little to no suspense, as Stephen Harper, the “former†leader of the Canadian Reform Alliance, won easily on the first ballot. It's likely that only right-wingers, and perhaps die-hard fans of CBC's Don Newman, tuned [...]
@ March 22, 2004 # No Comment Yet
March 22, 2004 — Local Vancouver democracy advocates are calling on the Berger Commission (the Vancouver Electoral Reform Commission) to be true to its educational mandate by educating Vancouver voters on the pros and cons of proportional systems or a proportional wards system for the City of Vancouver, and to fairly consider that system. Currently, [...]
@ March 19, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By John ChuckmanThere are a few special moments now and then in world affairs that lift your spirit.One of these came with the fall of Romania's Ceausescu, former chum of Richard Nixon, known appropriately to his own countrymen as “the Dracula.” His fall came before the toppling of the Berlin Wall and, for me, was [...]
@ March 18, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Seth SandronskyA Forbes magazine list of global billionaires in 2003 was the longest ever. Their ranks rose to 587 from 476 the previous year. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, was the wealthiest person on the planet as he has been for the past decade, worth an estimated $46.6 billion in 2003. Second to him [...]