@ May 31, 2004 # No Comment Yet
“Exactly when was a consortium composed of five broadcast executives anointed with the right to determine which Canadian political parties should participate in the leaders' debate,” asked Green Party of Canada leader Jim Harris today. “Do Canadians really believe that five executives meeting on a conference call should arbitrarily decide the political choices for over [...]
@ May 30, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Supreme Court of Canada Makes Patenting of Life Political TORONTO – In response to the May 23, 2004 Supreme Court of Canada Decision on the Schmeiser vs Monsanto case, Connie Fogal , Leader of the Canadian Action Party, today called on the government of Canada to ban the patenting of lifeforms. The Supreme Court of [...]
@ May 30, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Submitted By: Deepak Sarkar, 5/28/2004 It used to ‘Trickle Down’ when the money from tax cut stayed inside the country! In this global economy, most rich would never invest their gift from tax cut in US or Canada because of unattractive interest rates and return on investment from usual stocks. Thus, most of the public [...]
@ May 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet
The COMER conference that will be held on May 29th, 9 a.m.to 6 p.m., at the Steelworkers Union hall at 25 Cecil St., Toronto has been planned around the central issue of our times. It will seek an answer to a question that is being used to block almost everything everything essential to society’s survival [...]
@ May 24, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Things to think about for the Canadian Elections. May 24 2004By Roy Whyte Ask yourself this question – are you happy with Canada as it stands right now? If you answered no, don’t worry you are in the majority. The reasons vary, but the underlying feeling is pretty much the same. To get positive result [...]
@ May 21, 2004 # No Comment Yet
SASKATOON – In a decision rendered today in the controversial Schmeiser vs Monsanto case, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the judgement against Saskatchewan canola farmer Percy Schmeiser, sending shockwaves around the world. In 2001, the Federal Court of Appeal found that Schmeiser had infringed on Monsanto's patent rights to its Roundup Ready canola when [...]
@ May 20, 2004 # No Comment Yet
According to Elections Canada, barely 25 percent of young electors (aged 18-24) exercised their right to vote in the 2000 federal election. When Prime Minister Paul Martin finally calls an election in 2004, will anyone care? Screw: The Web SiteWatch Screw the Vote Sunday, May 23rd at 7:00 PM ET on CBC Newsworld, then have your [...]
@ May 17, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Slipping the Surly Bonds of Economic Conventionby Richard A. Racey It's something like the Law of Gravity. We almost never think about it, but its existence exerts a profound influence upon us at every turn. No, we seldom think about money; rather, we think with it, using it as an integral part of our thinking [...]
@ May 15, 2004 # No Comment Yet
May 15 2004By John Chuckman Among the hoard of pictures from Iraq viewed by members of America's Senate in a top-secret, eavesdrop-proof room – a rather grandiose version of one of those smelly little, stained booths for which patrons of Times Square shops used to pay to watch “hot stuff” – were pictures of a [...]
@ May 13, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Victoria, May 13th, 2004 – Greenpeace today erected a wind farm on the lawn of the BC Legislature on the same day as the federal government began its public meetings in Victoria into offshore oil and gas off the coast of British Columbia. Erecting 35, 8 foot tall and 6 foot wide wind turbines, all [...]