Stories of U.S. Immigration Woes: Warning to Canadians
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June 11, 2004, New York – Theater artist and social critic Kayhan Irani comes to Montreal, Canada, as part of The Infringement Festival, performing her acclaimed one-woman show, “We’ve Come Undone†June 17th and 19th. Written and performed by Kayhan Irani, “We’ve Come Undone†presents the stories of women and girls directly effected by legislation [...]
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Green Party of Canada Runs Full Slate of Candidates
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Montréal, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 – For the first time in its history, the Green Party of Canada will run a full slate of candidates in Canada's 308 electoral districts for the June 28th election, announced leader Jim Harris today. Harris was reacting to the news that all 308 Green Party candidates had been approved [...]
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Secondary Illiterates: The Crisis of Education in Western Industrial Countries
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By Robert Kurz [This article originally published in: Folha March 2004 is translated from German on the World Wide Web] In the history of colonialism, the West represented itself as the superior civilization in relation to the rest of the world in the cultural sense and not only technically and economically. The western ideologues of [...]
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The True Cost of Things
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Why Wal-Mart S.U.C.K.S. (Senseless Uneducated Consumerism Killing Society)By Richard Baynton, co-founder of Alternatives Magazine The day Wal-Mart came to town, the townsfolk were downright joyful about it. A huge, brand new, job-providing, property tax paying mega-store planting itself on the edge of the community. And did I mention huge? And amazingly low prices, too! Get [...]
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CAP Congratulates NDP With a Caveat: Use of the Bank of Canada is a Stark Necessity
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Connie Fogal, Leader of the Canadian Action Party, calls the economic policies of the Liberal and Conservative parties a fraud that will destroy Canada. Fogal applauds the NDP for its apparent willingness to acknowledge the essential use of the Bank of Canada in addressing Canada's economy. Fogal notes that the very last statement of the [...]
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WHY THE CIA ALWAYS WILL BE A COSTLY FLOP
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By John ChuckmanJune 9 2004 The resignation of both the director and an important deputy director of any large organization is noteworthy, but when that organization is the CIA we have an event of global interest. Several official, and likely-embarrassing, reports concerning CIA activities – including one dealing with the Agency's generous estimates of Iraq's [...]
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A Protest Vote Gone Astray
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By Ricardo RantJune 6 2004 With every new poll released we see a rise of the Conservative Party. With every passing day I come across throngs of Canadians pissed at the Federal Liberals, and they are ready to vote them out. In increasing numbers they are choosing the Conservative Party. They are not choosing the Conservative Party [...]
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Mel Hurtig’s Musings on the Current Canadian Political Situation
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Preparing for the break up and sell off of our country. What a potential disaster. Worse than most of us could have ever imagined. A far-right-wing, in fact radical-right American-Republican-style party in power, propped up by the separatists ( at least temporarily, until another election within a year). If the election were to be held [...]
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Stephen Harper: In his own words…
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Human Rights Commissions:“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack oÂn our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society…It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.” (BC Report Newsmagazine, January 11, 1999) On being ‘libertarian’“But I’m very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small [...]
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Text Message the PM???
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I am an 18 year old University student who goes to York. I am currently volunteering at a local high school helping to teach a civics class. I came across the Youth Text 2004 campaign and decided it would be a fun way to get the young kids involved in politics. It was a lot [...]
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