@ March 7, 2006 # No Comment Yet
McCartney’s Visit Does Little to Sway Opinions in Canada By Myles Higgins We all know an ant can´t move a rubber tree plant, but can a Beatle save the seals? The answer is probably not. Late last week ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Heather visited the gulf region near PEI (although they thought they [...]
@ March 3, 2006 # No Comment Yet
India Designating Reactors as Military Facilities to Keep Them From the IAEA President George W. Bush agreed yesterday to a civilian nuclear cooperation deal with India that fails to match administration claims that it would be a net benefit for the global nonproliferation regime. Instead, the deal bows to the Indian nuclear bomb lobby’s desire [...]
@ March 2, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Canada’s 2006 Elections By John Ryan The 2006 federal election has set the stage for a possible dismantling of Canada’s distinctive social and economic fabric. The newly evolved Conservative Party, in many respects a chilling echo of the USA’s Republican Party, is poised for a two-stage attack to reshape Canada in line with its Canadian [...]
@ March 2, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The Emerson Flap – A Matter of National Urgency By Robert Billyard It would be very easy to make light of the sudden deification of David Emerson and resort to tart references, such as “the softwood Pinocchio”, “certain parties have being whacked by a 2X4 and not yet fully recovered”; “blockheadedness”, “knotty behaviour”, “warped wood”, [...]
@ March 2, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Chávez is all but Guaranteed a Clean Win Assuming that Latin America is filled with Tony Blairs, when the best that the State Department can produce is El Salvador’s Tony Saca, (with maybe Honduras, and perhaps even “socialist†Chile) Condi Rice sets out to build a Latin American “coalition of the willing,†instead finds that [...]