@ April 14, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Conservative Heartland Rejects Tory Child Care Plan A recent poll conducted by Public Interest Alberta (PIA) and the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL), indicates that most Albertans do not support the Harper government’s plans to replace the Child Care program of the previous Liberal government with $100 per month payments to parents of pre-school age [...]
@ April 14, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Lumber Coalition Blames Canada, Yet Takes Subsidies Themselves Two media stories this week have set the stage for the Free Trade Lumber Council to attack the U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, and the U.S. lumber industry, for receiving and seeking more than $1 billion in government subsidies while attacking Canadian companies for subsidies that [...]
@ April 7, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Bay Street Cheerleaders Have Much to Learn By Myles Higgins I really have to laugh at the commentators who churn out their usual drivel over at Canada’s supposed national newspaper, the Globe and Mail. Have these guys ever taken a trip any more than a few hundred yards from Bay Street? The latest “we know [...]
@ April 5, 2006 # No Comment Yet
How Many Political Parties Does it Take to Sellout a Country? Only one; The Liberals are defunct! By Robert Billyard The Canadian political landscape is like the 1930′s prairie dust bowl- arid, windy, and bleak. There’s lot of dust on the ground and in our eyes. On the left we have the upstart NDP considered [...]
@ April 4, 2006 # No Comment Yet
In Afganistan And Iraq, How The Shabby War On Terror Is Conducted By John Chuckman Naturally enough, few details of what American troops do in Iraq and Afghanistan reach the nation’s television screens, the main source of news for most Americans. American television takes the approach of the New York Times when it refers to [...]
@ April 1, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Newfoundland Fisherman Takes Hollywood by Storm By Myles Higgins It may be a long way from the icy shores of Newfoundland to the sunny shores of Southern California but that hasn’t stopped 67 year old Sonny Trawl, a local fisherman, from taking tinsel town by storm. Sonny, who was born and raised in the sea [...]