@ July 30, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Indiscriminate Bombing in Lebanon a War Crime
Responsibility for the Israeli airstrikes that killed at least 54 civilians sheltering in a home in the Lebanese village of Qana rests squarely with the Israeli military, Human Rights Watch said today. It is the latest product of an indiscriminate bombing campaign that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have [...]
@ July 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Why Death And Destruction In Lebanon
By John Chuckman
At this writing, Israel has killed six hundred civilians in Lebanon, including more than one hundred children, and killed another one hundred and fifty in Gaza. It has created hundreds of thousands of refugees and destroyed enough bridges and power stations and apartments to create misery for years [...]
@ July 25, 2006 # No Comment Yet
By Myles Higgins
Canada has been living with the potential threat of Quebec separation for decades. If not for the millions of tax dollars that were spent prior to the last referendum (read Gomery) there might already be four North American countries instead of three. Recently the Liberal Premier of Quebec has said his Province has [...]
@ July 25, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Israel Must Not Use Indiscriminate Weapons
Israel has used artillery-fired cluster munitions in populated areas of Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today. Researchers on the ground in Lebanon confirmed that a cluster munitions attack on the village of Blida on July 19 killed one and wounded at least 12 civilians, including seven children. Human Rights Watch [...]
@ July 25, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Abusive Techniques Were Authorized, Soldiers’ Complaints Ignored
Torture and other abuses against detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were authorized and routine, even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, according to new accounts from soldiers in a Human Rights Watch report released today.
The new report, containing first-hand accounts by U.S. military personnel interviewed by Human Rights [...]
@ July 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
This Is A Great Victory
Canada can now celebrate the most definitive and significant legal decision in the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute. Three judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade (U.S. CIT) have issued a unanimous decision saying that the U.S. has no basis under U.S. law to impose duties on Canadian softwood lumber. The [...]
@ July 19, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Savagery In Lebanon
By John Chuckman
Following the assassination of Reinhard Heidrich by Czech partisans in 1942, Hitler’s government executed all the men in the village of Lidici, sent its women and children to concentration camps, and razed the village to the ground. A few weeks later, the barbarism was repeated on the village of Lezaky.
Lidici was [...]
@ July 18, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Can This War Be Won?
By Robert Billyard
Even though Pearson looked like a bookish banker with the disposition of your favorite uncle he was a man of action and fierce integrity, unafraid to “piss†on presidential rugs.
As individuals and nations we sometimes forget who we are and where we are from. Canada’s present role in [...]
@ July 17, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Alberta’s Economy Is Set To Grow Even Stronger
After its best performance in five years in 2005, Alberta’s economy is set to grow even stronger this year, according to the Provincial Outlook report issued today by the BMO Financial Group Economics Department.
“We expect that Alberta will have the highest real GDP growth rate in the country [...]
@ July 17, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Some Boom - Wages Up a Measly 1.4%
The first issue of a new quarterly publication from the Alberta Federation of Labour finds that weekly wages in Alberta are only up 1.4% in 2006, after accounting for inflation. The AFL launched Labour Economic Monitor today, which will track economic indicators and trends in Alberta.
“Everywhere we turn, [...]