@ October 31, 2005 # No Comment Yet
The Scary Tale of Gomery
By Myles “Massacre” Higgins
Tendrils of bone chilling fog creep through the streets in the City of Legends. The grey menace quietly tightens its vice like grip among the shadows and gingerly explores the doorways of one and all.
In bays and coves along the windswept coast waves crash against blackened rocks [...]
@ October 30, 2005 # No Comment Yet
More Than Meets The Eye
By John Chuckman
The following quotes are from Bush’s speech about the War on Terror, as given October 6, 2005, and largely repeated October 28. It was a speech especially dense with Bushspeak, a dialect which never means what it seems to say. Perspective and the occasional translation follow the quotes.
“All these [...]
@ October 25, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Nothing More Than a Few Yards of Coloured Cloth
By Myles Higgins
I recently heard a local talk show host use the term last refuge of a scoundrel and it got me to thinking. What exactly is the last refuge of a scoundrel? Where do they turn when facts elude them and the truth they don’t want [...]
@ October 25, 2005 # No Comment Yet
An Eye for an Eye? Disregarding Fairness, Disconnecting from the FTAA
In response to the 1980s debt crisis, many Latin American countries adopted far-flung economic reforms centered on trade liberalization. The capstone of their efforts occurred in 1994 when 34 Western Hemisphere nations met at the first Summit of the Americas in Miami. There, under U.S. [...]
@ October 25, 2005 # No Comment Yet
So, What Is Money?
Just as we need government for the people, and by the people, so we need money for the people, and by the people.
Money Reformers advocate essentially two things - firstly, that we change from a debt-based to a debt-free economy. That is, to a society where money, or a great deal of [...]
@ October 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadians Not Likely to Think Highly of Rice Visit to Ottawa
With Prime Minister Paul Martin set to play host to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she makes her first official visit to Canada, a new CanWest News Service/Global News Ipsos Reid poll shows that most Canadians (60%) think her visit is really just [...]
@ October 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
The “Big Idea”,The “Grand Bargain”,Our Next Prime Minister AndThe Vanishing Country
Mel Hurtig
The 72nd Annual Couchiching Conference
What I’m going to try to do today, if time permits, is summarize some of the key points in my last book, The Vanishing Country, which McClelland and Stewart published in November, then talk about the important developments that have [...]
@ October 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Bottom Dragger Gear and at-risk Sea Creatures Dramatize Liberal Failures
Environmental groups from the East and West coasts of Canada are displaying massive fishing drag net gear on Parliament Hill today, calling on Paul Martin to make good on his promise to protect the oceans. The groups say that Canada’s actions fall far short of the [...]
@ October 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet
In the Last 20 Years 11,380 Canadian Companies Taken Over
By Mel Hurtig
The latest figures from the Investment Review Division of Industry Canada are now available. They cover the period from June 30, 1985, when the Mulroney government put the Investment Canada Act into effect, after abolishing FIRA, to the end of September, 2005.
In that period [...]
@ October 17, 2005 # No Comment Yet
What Did Martin Expect From Premiers Anyways?
By Myles Higgins
In an interview with Montreal’s La Presse, Prime Minister Paul Martin says he is exasperated at the increasingly acrimonious relationship between the federal government and the provinces.
Martin says he is not prepared to have the Premiers come to Ottawa, whine for a day and demand more money.
Well [...]