@ January 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Following Through On A 13-Month Old Promise, PEI Is To Hold Public Hearings On The Banning Of GMOs Showing itself to be a leader among the provinces in being forward thinking, the PEI government is taking steps to look closer at the issue of genetically modified products. Finally following through on a 13-month old promise, [...]
@ January 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadians And Indigenous Peoples Unite And Speak Out Against Injustice On January 11, 2005, an Indigenous farmer was killed for opposing Canada-US mining operations in Guatemala and another was seriously injured. As Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples in British Columbia and Canada, we demand that the Canadian government stop promoting Canadian corporations that undermine indigenous rights [...]
@ January 18, 2005 # No Comment Yet
New Study Finds Family Background a Factor in Access to Education Family background goes a long way to determining access to post-secondary education, according to a study released today by Statistics Canada. Students from rural and First Nations backgrounds in particular have low participation rates versus their peers. “A lack of attention to the diverse [...]
@ January 17, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Whistler’s Wastewater Treatment Plant To Be Privatized In A Planned Public-Private Partnership Whistler stands to lose its ranking as one of Canada’s best wastewater treatment providers, if it proceeds with council’s plans to privatize the operation, says CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill. The union leader is responding to Regional Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) plans, announced [...]
@ January 15, 2005 # No Comment Yet
District Vows To Continue Fight To Stop Alcan Power Sales The District of Kitimat today announced that it will continue to pursue legal options to stop Alcan from selling electricity from its Kemano power plant. The announcement came in light of a ruling by the Supreme Court of British Columbia that the District of Kitimat [...]
@ January 14, 2005 # No Comment Yet
General Ray Henault’s Farewell Message To The Canadian Forces And DND As you are aware, my time remaining as CDS is very short. As announced today by the Prime Minister, LGen (Gen) Rick Hillier will assume the responsibilities of CDS effective 4 Feb, as I leave to initiate my transition to the position of Chairman [...]
@ January 14, 2005 # No Comment Yet
The U.S.-Venezuela Oil Split Approaches A Boiling Point Although Venezuela has long been one of the U.S.’s top four foreign suppliers of crude, relations between the two countries have grown quite acrimonious since the Bush administration’s tacit support of the failed coup against populist president Hugo Chavez in April of 2002. How the Bush administration [...]
@ January 13, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Service Employees International Union Finds Fault in Klein’s Handling Of Health Care Alberta Premier Ralph Klein’s announcement of his “third way” solution to modern-day challenges to health care confirmed that he is trapped in a time warp. However, his ideas amount to nothing more than privatization. “It is obvious that Mr. Klein missed the past [...]
@ January 13, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Launch Of Yalla: A Literary Journal By Canadian Arab And Jewish Youth About The Middle East “Yalla,” a new literary collection by Canadian Jewish and Arab youth is being released to the public today. The Yalla Journal is co-sponsored by the Arab Students’ Association of McGill and Hillel Jewish Student Centres. The 200-page compilation brings [...]
@ January 13, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Newfoundland and Labrador Steelworkers Call On Federal Government To Improve Ferry Service In a submission to the Federal Advisory Committee examining the future of the Marine Atlantic ferry service, the United Steelworkers urges the federal government to make public investments in the service to enhance the timeliness, quality and affordability of the service that links [...]