@ August 20, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Economies More Than Ideology on Their Minds In another example of touch and go diplomacy, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spent just a few short days in both Paraguay and Peru this week, where he echoed claims made ealier by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is a destabilizing [...]
@ August 20, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Another Misguided Reaction by the U.S. Towards Telesur On Sunday, July 25, a significant step was taken toward promoting the dissemination of free ideas and pluralistic perspectives in Latin America. Televisora del Sur or “Telesur,†a collective media effort sponsored by Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba and Brazil, launched its first broadcast from Caracas to an [...]
@ August 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Secret Snippits From Bush – Excerpts From Important New Documents By John Chuckman The following passages were assembled from shredded paper found in an American National Archives dumpster by the Iranian Ambassador. A team of the country’s best rug craftsmen is said to be working full-time on puzzling out the complete text. While some portions [...]
@ August 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Passport Restrictions Having Deterrent Effect On Cross-Border Travel New American rules that will require travellers to show passports or “other secure documents” when entering, re-entering or leaving the United States are threatening travel between Canada and the U.S., and the tourism industry is taking action. Over 20 groups with a stake in cross-border travel have [...]
@ August 18, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadians Need To Pay Close Attention To U.S. Housing Markets With the U.S. housing boom now in its fifth year, a TD Economics topic paper entitled U.S. Expansion on ‘Borrowed’ Time looks at the impact housing wealth has had on U.S. consumer spending behaviour. The TD study found that the wealth effect has been such [...]
@ August 18, 2005 # No Comment Yet
CEP Says Unfair Duties Have Cost Literally Thousands Of Forestry Jobs Canada needs to get tough with the United States over its intransigence on the softwood lumber dispute says the head of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, country’s largest union of forestry and energy workers. “If needs be, we should turn the [...]
@ August 17, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Governor General and Lieutenant Governors Undertake Over 4,000 Engagements Annually The annual cost of the Canadian Crown to each resident is roughly the same as that of a chocolate bar. The $1.54 per Canadian per annum figure is revealed in the Monarchist League of Canada’s triennial survey which totals the expenses of official Royal Homecomings, [...]
@ August 17, 2005 # No Comment Yet
“Learn From Our Country’s Mistakes And Reject Private Care” Canadian doctors debating privatization at the Canadian Medical Association conference today will do so with a healthy dose of reality from British doctors who’ve experienced for-profit care. The British doctors, representing the National Health Service Consultants’ Association (NHSCA), have sent an open letter to incoming CMA [...]
@ August 16, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadians Prefer Martin As PM Over Rivals The latest national survey completed Monday August 8, 2005 by SES Research shows the Liberals with a 14 point lead over the Conservatives. Martin leads Layton as best PM by 16 points and 39% of Canadians would describe Liberal government performance as average. “The big Liberal gains were [...]
@ August 16, 2005 # No Comment Yet
CRTC Licensing Decision Wrong Move For Canadians Statement by Murray McLauchlan Every once in a while something happens that, left unchallenged, can be bad news for the future of Canadian radio and television and especially for Canadian music creators. Such an event occurred on June 16th, when the CRTC licensed two American satellite pay radio [...]