@ August 31, 2004 # No Comment Yet
VANCOUVER - A NAFTA panel has rejected American claims that Canadian lumber imports threaten producers in the United States.
The decision is a victory for Canada in the ongoing dispute over softwood lumber.
Canada has maintained that without demonstrating a threat of injury, the U.S. cannot justify the 27.2 per cent countervailing and anti-dumping duties [...]
@ August 30, 2004 # No Comment Yet
August 29, New York, NY
In the largest protest ever held during a political convention, more than 500,000 people from all over the United States marched past Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention, to express their opposition to the Bush agenda and the war against Iraq. “This march brought together people from every [...]
@ August 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet
STILL UNREPORTED: THE PAY-OFF IN BUSH AIR GUARD FIX
Saturday, August 28, 2004
by Greg Palast
In 1968, former Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas, fresh from voting to send other men’s sons to Vietnam, enlisted his own son in a very special affirmative action program, the ‘champagne’ unit of the Texas Air National Guard. There, Top [...]
@ August 26, 2004 # No Comment Yet
The OÂntario Civilian Commission oÂn Police Service (OCCPS), a civilian oversight agency, falsified police complaint statistics in their 2003 Annual Report painting a rosy picture of the sham the public complaint system has been since 1997 when the OÂntario Government changed the Police Services Act and created OCCPS.
According to the Ministry of Community Safety & [...]
@ August 25, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Venezuela’s Referendum Resolves Leadership Crisis, but Fails to Reconcile the Country’s Polarized SocietyIn a reaffirmation of Latin American democracy, the Venezuelan populace turned out en masse on August 15 in a contentious nation-wide referendum to decide whether to recall President Hugo Chávez from office. From the early hours of the morning, people lined the streets, [...]
@ August 24, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Dear Fellow Canadians,As you have heard in the news, Liberal Members of Parliament are speaking out against their party’s possible endorsement of the U.S. missile defence system. If you act now, you can have a direct impact on the Liberal party meeting happening this week in Ottawa. Go to ceasefire.ca. Right now, as you're receiving [...]
@ August 24, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Dear Friends,A week ago today, the forces for good in the world achieved a major victory with the reaffirmation of Hugo Chávez as the democratically-elected President of Venezuela. The social transformation of Venezuela, particularly the use of national oil revenues to benefit all Venezuelans through health care, education, land distribution, economic development, and food security [...]
@ August 20, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By John Chuckman
August 20, 2004
America’s campaign for Emperor is becoming nasty.
What shameful accusations are being tossed around: an ambitious, privileged young John Kerry, who spent a brief stint in Vietnam beefing up the hero section of his resume, never actually did some of the things he claims or at least didn’t do them under [...]
@ August 18, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Victoria Hirschberg
The Monitor
McALLEN — In the 10 years since its inception, the North American Free Trade Agreement may have been good for business, but that has not been the case for workers who have felt its impact, according to a newly released study.
Workers from Mexico, Canada and the United States have been losers [...]
@ August 16, 2004 # No Comment Yet
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is headed for an energy crunch if it doesn’t make sweeping changes to the sector with a new focus on energy security, renewable energy and conservation, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the David Suzuki Foundation.
Released today, the report says the province’s fixation on [...]