@ September 20, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Robert S. McElvaine, History News Network The recent Republican National Convention presented George W. Bush’s presidency as a triumphant success. Most professional historians take a radically different view. A significant number of historians, in fact, rank the Bush presidency as the most disastrous in American history. They’re wrong. An informal, unscientific survey of historians [...]
@ September 20, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Greenpeace Reveals Agreement with Syngenta Biotechnology for Trials Documents obtained by Greenpeace through the Access to Information Act reveal that Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC) agreed to conduct field trials of genetically modified wheat at three secret locations in Western Canada in 2004 on behalf of biotechnology company Syngenta. The trials were agreed to despite [...]
@ September 20, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Great Lakes Governors have released a draft version of a long-awaited pact to manage water takings from the Great Lakes Basin. The Great Lakes Annex 2001 Implementing Agreements are the product of several years of discussions and could take as long as fifteen years to implement. Although the agreements were originally developed to place limitations [...]
@ September 18, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Paul Harris The United States went to war against Iraq in 2003 on the basis that Iraq was chock-a-block with ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD). Eventually, the Americans had to admit they were wrong and they just couldn’t find those weapons. Many skeptics suspect the Bush administration lied about the WMDs in Iraq to [...]
@ September 18, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Canada’s largest newspaper chain, CanWest Global, is being criticized over its use of the word “terrorist” in stories about the Middle East. The owner of the National Post and dozens of other papers across Canada is being accused of inappropriately inserting the word into newswire copy dealing with the Middle East, thereby changing the meaning [...]
@ September 17, 2004 # No Comment Yet
“Feed Your Alternative Media” Week ~ October 17-23, 2004 “How many people out there today would like to testify that they have triumphed over the filth of nuclear energy, toxic wastes, tainted sex, cocaine and heroin, irradiated food…only to have fallen victim to the vile corruptions of entertainment criminals like Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and [...]
@ September 16, 2004 # No Comment Yet
On October 2, 2004, the United Church of Canada joins the Canadian Peace Alliance in urging member groups, coalitions and peace loving organizations in Canada to organize actions against the United States’ Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) plan. This is one day after BMD officially goes on line in the United States and two days before [...]
@ September 15, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Hugh Segal The “democratic deficit” has come to mean different things to different people. For some, in our time, it is the relative impotence of Parliament as a true decision making democratic arena. For others, it is the broad malaise of reduced voter turnout both in Canada and across the mature democracies. There are [...]
@ September 15, 2004 # No Comment Yet
– 90 year lease amounts to $577,000 a year for profitable company – VANCOUVER — The true sale price for BC Rail comes to a mere $52 million, NDP Opposition House Leader Joy MacPhail said today. MacPhail pointed to the 1st quarter financial report delivered yesterday. That report states that a mere “$52 million of [...]
@ September 14, 2004 # No Comment Yet
A group of labour and union activists is working out of a Response Centre across the street from the First Ministers’ Meeting. We originally thought we would provide alternative commentary to what the First Ministers were talking about. Now we realize we have to respond to what the FMs are not talking about – stopping [...]