@ March 17, 2005 # No Comment Yet
R&D in Canada in Decline According to New Study Canadian nationalists like Mel Hurtig sounded the alarm but hardly anyone was listening. The Impact Group has released The Demographics of Industrial Research in Canada 1994-2000. This in-depth study of Canadian industrial R&D performance over a 7-year period shows that industrial R&D is eroding in Canada. [...]
@ March 17, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadians Among Quarter Million Chinese Renouncing Communist Memberships Over 250,000 Chinese people have now openly renounced their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and/or the Chinese Communist Youth League, a 25% jump compared to just 4 days ago, reports the Chinese language Epoch Times website. “I completely lost trust in the CCP,” said Fan [...]
@ March 17, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Eight In Ten NWT Residents Want More Protected Areas In The Territory A new poll released by the Canadian Boreal Initiative shows that NWT residents want to see more of the territory protected from industrial development. The poll found that 83 percent of NWT residents supported the creation of more areas protected from industrial activities, [...]
@ March 14, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadian Nationalists Will Object – Good. They should. Corporations Won’t. They Have No Nation. Rt Hon Paul Martin Prime Minister Government of Canada Dear Prime Minister: I attach the G&M news item below my memo.. Reading the Globe and Mail this morning we find that Tom Manley and John d’Aquino of Washington DC have released [...]
@ March 12, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadian Job Growth Shows Underlying Weaknesses The private sector has not created most of the new jobs in the past year. Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey for February, once again, shows the imbalance between the necessary re-investment in the services to people that the public sector provides and the scarcity of investments in the business [...]
@ March 11, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Silk-Stocking Political Correctness… By John Chuckman There are noises about the Liberal Party’s considering Michael Ignatieff as a possible future leader. It would be hard to think of a more depressing political prospect for Canada. Early in Canada’s history, the Conservatives often served as the voice of Canada’s interests and independence vis-Ã -vis the United States. [...]
@ March 11, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Libel Suit Against Washington Post Could Have Major Impact On Free Expression Reporters Without Borders today wrote to the Canadian justice minister with its position on an important question of law for online media that has been raised by a former UN official’s libel action in Canada against the Washington Post, namely can a journalist [...]
@ March 11, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canada Welcomed Almost 236,000 New Permanent Residents in 2004 The Honourable Joe Volpe, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, has announced the preliminary figures for permanent resident admissions in 2004. The current numbers for admissions to Canada are 235,808, well within the planned range of 220,000 to 245,000 announced to Parliament on October 30, 2003. Although [...]
@ March 11, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Ballistic Missile Decision Will Hurt Economy, Compromises Canada’s Security – Canadian Chamber Canada’s decision not to participate in the US ballistic missile defense (BMD) program will have negative consequences for Canada’s economic prosperity, compromises Canadian security and will impede Canada’s relationship with the United States, stated the Canadian Chamber of Commerce during its Board of [...]
@ March 11, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Saskatchewan’s Growth Rate In Canada To Slow In 2005-2006 A report released today states that Saskatchewan’s economy posted real growth in 2003 of 4.5% — the second-highest provincial growth rate in the country. That is the findings from the Canada West Foundation’s, A Soft Landing: Saskatchewan’s Economic Profile and Forecast during the Saskatchewan Economic Summit. [...]