@ May 16, 2006 # No Comment Yet
U.S. State Department Report a Masterpiece of Science Fiction In yet another blow to the credibility of one of its annually released “certification†reports on the performance of other nations on some broad social or political issue – this time on the degree of cooperation in the anti-terrorism struggle – the State Department in its [...]
@ May 15, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Enormous Amount Of Private Money And Corporate Initiatives In Our Classrooms A new national study examining commercialism in Canadian public schools reveals that schools across Canada are attempting to meet the challenge of government underfunding through a variety of private funding sources. On most measures, a higher percentage of schools in British Columbia than in [...]
@ May 13, 2006 # No Comment Yet
There Is Not A Moment To Waste In The Pursuit Of Global Justice By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry In George W. Bush’s address to Congress on September 20, 2001 he said of the terrorists, “They hate our freedoms – our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with [...]
@ May 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Conservative Election Radio Ad Promise Broken Métis National Council President Clément Chartier has congratulated Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine for securing an agreement on the Residential Schools issues. “This is an important step on the journey of healing for Indian Residential school survivors. National Chief Fontaine must be commended for his leadership [...]
@ May 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Canadian Consumers May Rein In Spending On Major Purchases While Canadians continue to be upbeat about the current state of the Canadian economy and its expected performance six months from now, a growing number of Canadians think that now is not a good time to make major purchases, suggest the latest findings from TNS Canadian [...]
@ May 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Best Buy Flexs Their Corporate Geek Muscles The war for on-site computer services is heating up as Best Buy opposes trademark applications from smaller “geek” information technology (IT) service firms around the world. The Geek Patrol, a small Calgary-based company operating since 2001, has had its trademark applications opposed in both Canada and the USA [...]
@ May 11, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Majority Of Canadians Not On Side With Conservative Crime Platform A new poll commissioned by the 340,000-member National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) indicates that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is out of sync with the views of a strong majority of Canadians on the best approach to lowering the country’s crime rate. By [...]
@ May 11, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Canada’s New Prime Minister, Stephan Harper, Starts Governing By John Chuckman Stephan Harper’s first budget, while making little economic and social sense, makes a great deal of political sense. Tidbits of spending are distributed to enough disparate groups to aim at luring a majority-making coalition of diverse interests. At the same time, Harper toughly enforces [...]
@ May 9, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Washington May Soon Try to Pin the Venezuelan Uranium Tail on the Iranian Nuclear Donkey Washington is no stranger to flimsy pretexts when it comes to justifying its ill-conceived, and at times illicit, Latin American initiatives. The contra epoch, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, Ollie North, former U.S. ambassador John Negroponte’s [...]
@ May 8, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Lucrative Newfoundland Route Dropped by Air Canada By Myles Higgins On Tuesday May second, after months of discussions Air Canada announced that it will no longer continue its direct service route between St. John’s, Newfoundland and London’s Heathrow airport. The Quebec based, tax payer supported airline claims that the connection is not profitable, however St. [...]