@ June 30, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Royal Newfoundland Regiment Not Permitted to Salute the Ode to Newfoundland
By Myles Higgins
I often hear comments from other parts of the Country to the effect that Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans are nothing but a bunch of complainers and whiners. The opinion seems to be that we will never be happy with the great job Canada has [...]
@ June 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Peter Beinart’s Silly Book…
By John Chuckman
I heard an interview the other day with Peter Beinart who has a new book called The Good Fight: Why Liberals – and Only Liberals – Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again . Apart from a slight nausea induced by a toothy Richard Beymer smile [...]
@ June 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Financial Barriers Are Shutting Out Low Income Families From Colleges And Universities
Increases in university tuition fees are having a devastating effect on low-income families in Canada according to a report released today by the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
“It’s shocking that low-income families have to devote up to 67% of their after-tax income to pay [...]
@ June 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
PM Harper May Use G8 Meeting To Expand Definition Of Aid To Include Military Operations
One year after the Live 8 concerts, the world is still watching and waiting for G8 leaders to live up to their commitments to help end global poverty.
On the anniversary of the Live 8 concerts, held in advance of last year’s [...]
@ June 27, 2006 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Voters Connect Steady Reliable Supply with National Security
A survey of U.S. voters released today by the Canadian American
Business Council (CABC) finds a substantial foundation of public support for expanded bilateral efforts by the U.S. to address the challenge of energy security.
“This poll serves to substantiate the tremendous opportunity for cooperation between the U.S. and [...]
@ June 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Who Is The Difficult One To Deal With Here?
By Myles Higgins
Regardless of how it may appear in recent news reports from many of Canada’s news agencies and even the illustrious New York Times, it appears that Newfoundland and Labrador isn’t the only place in the world where the government and people are starting to feel [...]
@ June 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
There is sufficient evidence from tree rings, boreholes, retreating glaciers, and other “proxies” of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years, according to a new report from the National Research Council. [...]
@ June 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The results of a poll released today show that Canadians are rejecting Stephen Harper’s plan to distribute a $1,200 child allowance to parents with children under six years of age. The Environics poll asked more than 2,000 Canadians their views on child care and the response was clear - 76% of Canadians support a national [...]
@ June 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
U.S. consumer group representatives were in Canada Monday to express concerns to members the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade over a proposed softwood lumber settlement agreement with the U.S. government that would harm housing affordability and millions of U.S. consumers.
Rather than rushing to enact an ill-conceived agreement that would also constrain Canadian [...]
@ June 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The fifth annual ranking of Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens, sponsored by The Ethical Funds Company, was announced today to a room full of TSX executives at the Arcadian Court in Toronto. The results will be published in the June 26th issue of Corporate Knights magazine.
The scores for the ranking that assessed companies listed on [...]