@ March 15, 2004 # No Comment Yet
VANCOUVER — March 15, 2004 Today, local Vancouver democracy advocates announced a campaign to alert Vancouver city voters that a full wards system proposed for the city is the same flawed system we now have provincially and federally. It is widely acknowledged that the full wards system suffers from unbalanced — and sometimes wildly unbalanced [...]
@ March 11, 2004 # No Comment Yet
San Francisco, CA – A coalition of environmental groups presented arguments today to the NAFTA dispute resolution panel hearing a foreign corporation's challenge to a California environmental regulation. In 1999, California decided to phase out MTBE, a gasoline additive suspected by the World Health Organization of being carcinogenic. MTBE has made its way into the [...]
@ March 11, 2004 # No Comment Yet
March 10 2004 The Friday March 12th evening reception and dinner will be in honour of CAP's founding leader, Hon. Paul Hellyer. It was his concern about the negative effects of neo-classical economics which led to the coalition of concerned Canadians who launched the party. Former supporters of five or six different parties got together [...]
@ March 10, 2004 # No Comment Yet
In the run-up to the Canadian Action Party Leadership Convention David Orchard was approached to see if he would be interested in taking the helm. He seemed like a natural for the post when he has been a long-time defender of Canadian sovereignty who now finds himself, like thousands of others, without a political home. [...]
@ March 10, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Connie Fogal will be acclaimed as CAP leader on March 27th. This became clear when she was the only candidate to file nomination papers with the requisite deposit before the deadline for nomination, Monday, March 8, 2004, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Our outgoing leader, Paul Hellyer, is delighted. “I can’t think of a [...]
@ March 9, 2004 # No Comment Yet
According to the most recent Ipsos-Reid Affluent Canadians Report, over half (57%) of the richest stratum of Canadians, approximately 200,000 Canadian households with at least $1 million in household financial assets, are retired. Almost one third (31%) of money millionaires own a business or someone in their household does so. Nine-in-ten (87%) of these millionaire [...]
@ March 8, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Less through confusion than by design, by belatedly introducing this country’s and other foreign forces into Haiti, Washington has guaranteed that Haiti’s now deeply scarred society is unlikely to easily recuperate from the wounds inflicted on it by an array of villains, both foreign and domestic. While many in both of those categories are destined [...]
@ March 7, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:36 PMSubject: [2orchard] Help Save the CBC If you would like to save and improve the CBC, please sign the petition at http://www.publicairwaves.ca/petition Further cuts are planned, so your help is needed. Tell the federal government to leave the CBC with funding levels that allow it to excel at what [...]
@ March 3, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Roy Tyler WhyteMarch 3 2004 Re: Canada must keep its seat at the missile defence tableVancouver Sun Tuesday March 2, 2004 After reading the unnamed editorial regarding national missile defence I find myself asking some serious questions. First, was the article meant to be humorous or serious? One would think it should be serious [...]
@ March 2, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Over the past year, Canadians witnessed an unprecedented series of voting reform developments across the country. This trend will likely continue and even accelerate in the next two years. The following calendar summarizes developments in 2003 and highlights expected developments in 2004 – 2005. Further details on upcoming developments will be posted on the Calendar [...]