@ February 28, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Leader Of Marijuana Party Joins Liberal Party Of Canada To Advance Marijuana Issue
Marc Boris St-Maurice, the former leader of the Marijuana Party of Canada has resigned his position and taken up ranks with the federal Liberal Party in the hopes of advancing the marijuana cause.
While Marc Boris St-Maurice is now gone, the party he has [...]
@ February 25, 2005 # No Comment Yet
New Mexico Key to Military Strategy Threatening Species Survival
By Noam Chomsky
February 24, 2005
If you can imagine some rational observers from Mars looking at this curious species down here, I don’t think they’d put very high odds on survival—another generation or two. In fact, it’s kind of miraculous that we’ve come along this far.
The world has [...]
@ February 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Not All Canadians Pleased By Federal Budget
From the Assembly of First Nations:
Phil Fontaine called the funding announcements in yesterday’s federal budget “particularly disappointing” in terms of addressing the First Nations health care crisis.
“Instead of receiving more funding to finally make inroads towards improving our shameful health status and strengthening the role of First Nations governments [...]
@ February 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadian Federal Government Continues To Penalize Working People
The Canadian Labour Congress says the government accomplished two things when it announced “enhancements” (not changes, reforms or improvements) to its faltering Employment Insurance program today. The CLC finds that the government finally confessed that real problems with its qualifying rules are preventing too many working people from [...]
@ February 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
China’s Burgeoning Role in Latin America—a Threat to the U.S.?
At its own economic and political peril, Washington can no longer deny that its present chaotic Latin American policy and its strategy of malign neglect toward the region are doing great damage to its hemispheric policy. At the same time, China is making great strides in [...]
@ February 23, 2005 # No Comment Yet
The PWU Disagrees With Government Policy To Shut Ontario’s Coal-Fired Stations
“The Liberal Government’s decision to set the price of generation from Ontario Power Generation will not stop the significant electricity prices that will happen when the province’s coal generation is shut down as scheduled in 2007,” Don MacKinnon, President of the Power Workers’ Union said [...]
@ February 23, 2005 # No Comment Yet
A Season Of Depressing Political Re-Runs
February 23, 2005
By John Chuckman
Recent political events resemble nothing so much as re-runs of movies that should never have been released the first time.
Bush has gone to Europe to “ease tensions” in the NATO alliance. Of course, those very tensions were his work entirely, but a sense of the ridiculous [...]
@ February 22, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Are Canadians Being Forced Into A Deal On NMD?
“The main benefit Canada will derive from joining is the ability to have a voice in how North America will be protected against the missile threat.”
Barry Cooper, director of the Fraser Institute’s Alberta office.
The above is dangerous in its outright simplicity. Cooper in his haste to [...]
@ February 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet
CHUM Reorganizing Alberta Operations
CHUM Television, a unit of Toronto-based CHUM Ltd., is reorganizing its Alberta operations, reducing its work force by 13 people as the broadcaster relocates some work and seeks to cut costs following its acquisition of Craig Media last year. CHUM said that A-Channel Edmonton, one of the Craig stations, will be integrated [...]
@ February 15, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Russian And Brazilian Arms Sales To Venezuela Could Prove Explosive
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is not known for his discretion, caution, nor political reserve. Yet the in-your-face leader travels with lady luck as he revels in the nation’s ever-increasing oil wealth and the virtually unprecedented political and economic prominence that skyrocketing petrol prices have brought to [...]