Conservative Tax Cuts Disproportionately Benefit High-Income Families
@ March 30, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Study Finds Conservatives ‘Standing Up’ For Rich Families
A new analysis finds that high-income families will receive a disproportionate share of the benefits from the Conservatives’ tax-cut promises.
According to Standing Up For Which Families? Who Benefits From the Conservative Tax Cut Promises, by CCPA Research Associate Sheila Block and CCPA Senior Research Economist Ellen Russell, the [...]
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The Immigration Bomb Explodes
@ March 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Future Role Of Canada In Hemispheric Issues Will Undoubtedly Be On The Agenda
Rarely have U.S.-Mexican relations received the sort of public scrutiny that the currently raging immigration debate is now attracting. But the problem, fostered by years of diplomatic indolence and half-measures, now demands an approach that boldly confronts associated problems on both sides of [...]
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Ottawa Fails to Support Atlantic Canada
@ March 25, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Whom Should We Trust About The Seal Hunt?
By Myles Higgins
When will Ottawa finally stand up for Atlantic Canada and simply stop allowing activist groups to use the seal hunt as their annual fund raiser?
Yesterday Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn said that DFO intended to continue granting permits to animal rights groups, allowing them to visit the [...]
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Whining Won’t Make It So, Mr. Harper
@ March 25, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Sorry, Mr. Prime Minister, Afghanistan Is Not Our War
By John Chuckman
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he has trouble understanding Canadians who feel ardently that their country’s soldiers should not be involved in Afghanistan.
Toronto Globe and Mail
Afghanistan is not our war, Mr. Prime Minister.
We are not threatened by voices in the Middle East opposing American policy, [...]
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Water Wars: The Mexico City World Water Forum
@ March 19, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Increasingly Fresh Water is Becoming Inaccessible
By the year 2025, many estimate that two-thirds of the world’s population could be facing severe water scarcity problems, which has disastrous, if not apocalyptic, implications for both humans and the environment. Even today, one billion people throughout the world lack access to clean drinking water, and approximately 2.6 billion [...]
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Conservatives Flex Their Intellectual Muscle
@ March 14, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Stand Up For Canada They Vowed - What Happened?
By Myles Higgins
What is it about the new Conservative government that makes it so dysfunctional? We all know the previous Liberal government was little more than a corrupt old boy network but at least they had the excuse of too many years in office and the resulting [...]
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Is Canada Violating International Law In Afghanistan?
@ March 13, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Legal Aspects of Canada’s Actions in Afghanistan Deeply Troubling
Canadian troops in Afghanistan are complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity because of their new aggressive role in support of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and should be immediately pulled out of the war zone and returned to Canada or risk facing possible future criminal [...]
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Vietnam War Deserter Arrested At Border
@ March 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Arrest Highlights Urgency of Canadian Sanctuary for U.S. War Resisters
On Thursday, March 9 Allen Abney, a US Marine who deserted and came to Canada in 1968, was detained by US Border officials as he crossed the border from British Columbia into Idaho. Abney, a dual
Canadian/ US citizen, was held in Idaho until he could be [...]
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The Parable of the Hatchet or The Nonsense of Nation-Building in Afghanistan
@ March 10, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Nonsense From The Pentagon
By John Chuckman
Nation-building is a term created by people living off Pentagon contracts. It is one of those queasy political expressions with no hard meaning yet its use raises few eyebrows. The term sounds as though it means something, and it is treated as though it were something you might study. At [...]
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Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread
@ March 9, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Why Canada Should Not Be In Afghanistan And Other Post-Modern Travesties
By Robert Billyard
Oddly enough, Liberal defence critic Ujjal Dosanjh does not feel it is the job of parliament to argue about whether Canadian troops should be in Afghanistan, but rather to convince Canadians why they should be there.
But then maybe the reverse holds true: It [...]
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