@ December 31, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By Mike Whitney
The American media has descended on the Asian tsunami with all the fervor of feral animals in a meat locker. The newspapers and TV’s are plastered with bodies drifting out to sea, battered carcasses strewn along the beach and bloated babies lying in rows. Every aspect of the suffering is being scrutinized with [...]
@ December 31, 2004 # No Comment Yet
The Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness commends the Canadian Government for increasing its financial commitment to the Tsunami relief effort. It’s one of the larger contributions any government has yet made.
But, we regret that these good intentions are being offset by growing public and media perception that, in one of the largest international disaster relief [...]
@ December 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Judy Sgro today announced the coming into force of the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States.
“I am pleased that Canada and the United States are working together to implement this agreement that will further our collaboration on refugee protection at the land border,” said Minister Sgro. “This agreement is [...]
@ December 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Canadian Cattle To Begin Moving to U.S. March 7
The rule to once again allow imports of live Canadian cattle and all beef products into the U.S. from Canada and other regions at minimal risk for BSE took a major step forward today with the announcement by the United States Department of Agriculture that the rule [...]
@ December 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Chile’s much-belabored “economic miracle,” fashioned from high growth rates, macroeconomic stability and explosive export expansion, is widely considered by neoliberal advocates to be the masterpiece of the economic model that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lauded and sought to replicate around the world. In Latin America, where significant state intervention has been the economic [...]
@ December 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Should Canadians be looking towards the Swiss model of democracy?
I have immigrated to Canada from Switzerland 17 years ago, and that country is my democratic benchmark as it should be everybody else’s. Compared to Switzerland, Canada’s political system is some mammoth dark ages dictatorship with overwhelming disregard to privacy and personal freedoms and lack [...]
@ December 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet
With an election having been held this past year, and another possibly in the New Year, we thought we would take the time to rank the federal political party websites of 2004.
In the end we didn’t find just one overall winner - we found three!
The winning websites of 2004 were from the NDP, Conservative Party [...]
@ December 22, 2004 # No Comment Yet
An announcement yesterday by Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Minister of State, Northern Development, confirmed that the Paul Martin government has made a $9 million commitment to support community-based protected areas planning in the Northwest Territories’ Mackenzie Valley. This is an essential component of sequencing conservation planning ahead of major industrial development.
World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) held numerous [...]
@ December 21, 2004 # No Comment Yet
The crisis facing Canadian livestock farmers is a result of
excessive corporate concentration in the meat packing industry, according to
Don Mills, a farmer from Granton, Ontario who serves as Coordinator of the
National Farmers Union (NFU) in that province.
In a presentation to the Canadian Auto Workers – Canada (CAW-Canada)
convention in Toronto earlier in December, Mills said simply [...]
@ December 21, 2004 # No Comment Yet
International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada Calls for Public Hearing
Homa Arjomand, Coordinator of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada opposes the conclusions of Boyd’s report because it recommends using faith-based arbitration and encourages the spread of Political Islam in Canada.
“I was surprised that Ms. Boyd didn’t find any evidence of women suffering [...]