@ May 15, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Supreme Court Rejects BC Forestry Program As Unconstitutional In another major court victory for First Nations, the Huu-ay-aht First Nation (HFN) have received a decision from the Supreme Court of British Columbia which holds that the BC Ministry of Forests program designed to address aboriginal interests on forestry matters fails to meet the Province’s constitutional [...]
@ May 12, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Movement for Canadian Literacy Says Canada Is Failing To Meet Basic Standards A Statistics Canada study released today reveals serious cracks in Canada’s literacy foundation with as many as 4 in 10 Canadian adults below the skill level considered necessary to thrive in today’s knowledge society. Success in today’s world demands continuous learning, and the [...]
@ May 12, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Opportunity To Stop Oil Pollution And Save Seabirds Could Be Lost Several of Canada’s leading conservation, environmental and animal welfare organizations are calling on the Senate today to quickly pass Bill C-15 which is designed to bring an end to the dumping of bilge oil from ships which results in the deaths of some 300,000 [...]
@ May 10, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Mixed Messages In BC Over Registered Third-Party Advertisers It’s spring and it’s election time, so the political signs are sprouting all along the highways and byways of B.C. The problem is that teachers are being told their signs aren’t allowed, but no one in authority is clearly saying why. Teachers in locals around the province [...]
@ May 9, 2005 # No Comment Yet
British Columbia Could Be First Province To Endorse New Voting System A series of celebrity endorsements were unveiled Sunday at the Yes to STV Campaign at its rally at the Vancouver Public Library. Environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki greeted the enthusiastic crowd and urged people to vote BC-STV. “For most of my life my vote [...]
@ May 7, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Political Smut On CBC… By John Chuckman A lawyer gave a brief opinion piece on Canada’s public radio, the CBC, in which he flatly said that criticism of Israel is a form of anti-Semitism. I guess we should be grateful that people in Canada are much less violent in their opinions than people in the [...]
@ May 5, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadian Action Party Says Martin – Layton Deal Does Not Go Far Enough The Agreement between the NDP and the Liberals to amend the 2005 budget in the best interest of the nation should be hailed by all Canadians. The investment in the environment, housing, and childcare will pay large dividends to all Canadians because [...]
@ May 4, 2005 # No Comment Yet
High Levels Of Raw Log Exports Under BC Liberals Erodes Protections For Jobs And Environment Responding to the high volume of raw logs being shipped from British Columbian ports to off-shore mills, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee has launched the world’s first ever “raw log webcam.†“It’s our version of reality TV,†quipped Gwen Barlee, [...]
@ May 3, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Wal-Mart Slams The Door On Unionized Workers Earlier Than Announced Wal-Mart Canada shut a recently unionized store in Jonquière, Québec, a week earlier than the previously announced. In February Wal-Mart said it would shut the location on May 6, 2005, just months after the store was unionized by UFCW Canada (United Food and Commercial Workers [...]
@ May 1, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Chávez’s War Against Opposition Media Spawns Telesur In Venezuela, the war for the hearts and minds of its citizens is now in full swing. With the imminent launching of the government-sponsored Televisora del Sur (Telesur), network control of the country’s existing media, including Univisión and CNN en Español, might sorely be put to the test. [...]