@ June 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Chinese Canadian head tax payers, widows and their descendants who left Vancouver last Friday arrived in Toronto on Monday evening, on their way to Ottawa to hear the Chinese head tax apology from the Government of Canada. On Wednesday, many more will board the train for Ottawa to witness the Parliamentary session in Ottawa at [...]
@ June 14, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Shut Down Real Culprits as Well By Myles Higgins How many comments have I read in Canadian papers lately about the big mistake Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn made by allowing a limited fishery off the Newfoundland and Labrador coast this year? How many supposed experts have suddenly crawled out of the woodwork to warn us [...]
@ June 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
With less than three weeks to go before Ministers from various countries meet in Geneva to attempt to finalize a trade deal on agriculture at the World Trade Organization, a poll indicates that 85% of Canadians agree the federal government must support the supply management approach to dairy, poultry and egg farming. “These very strong [...]
@ June 9, 2006 # 1,312 Comments
Heat Without Light… Canadian Terrorism Arrests By John Chuckman The arrest in Toronto of seventeen men, mostly quite young, for conspiracy to bomb places in Southern Ontario has raised a storm of comment. Unfortunately, much of it has been either premature or wrong. A Congressman from Northern New York, uninformed but still generous with his [...]
@ June 7, 2006 # One Comment
Conservatives Pick Up Where Liberals Left Off In Quebec By Myles Higgins Boy oh boy, is Ralph Goodale ever going to just go away. Even after being kicked to the other side of the House he’s still managed to poke his ugly mug into government policy. In his latest debacle, a panel setup by the [...]
@ June 7, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Post-9/11 Canada Has Created Extremely Challenging Environment For Canadian Muslims By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry The Muslim men arrested in Toronto on the weekend are innocent to proven guilty. But if and when any of them is proven guilty in a court of law, then I hope and pray that Canada’s Muslims will not be found [...]
@ June 2, 2006 # No Comment Yet
National Energy Board Says Production Could Nearly Triple Alberta oil sands production could nearly triple by 2015 to three million barrels per day, says the National Energy Board (NEB) in an Energy Market Assessment report, Canada’s Oil Sands – Opportunities and Challenges to 2015: An Update, released today. Oil sands production output was 1.1 million [...]
@ June 2, 2006 # No Comment Yet
In Latin America A New Model Dares to Emerge Washington rumbles with suppressed outrage over Latin America’s latest professions of its sovereignty – Bolivia’s nationalization of its oil and natural gas reserves, and Ecuador and Venezuela’s voiding of their energy contracts. At the same time, Bolivia’s newly inaugurated president, Evo Morales, is a prime candidate [...]