@ August 30, 2006 # No Comment Yet
By Myles Higgins
Consultation or Confrontation, those are the words being spun by Conservative Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn in his current media blitz, leading to the latest round of NAFO discussions. Great alliteration huh, can’t you just picture those Ottawa spin doctors sitting around some boardroom table, sipping latte’s and trying to come up with [...]
@ August 24, 2006 # No Comment Yet
In Alberta, the income in real dollars of a single person on welfare has decreased by almost 50 percent since 1986. Since 1992 in Ontario, the welfare income of a lone parent with one child has decreased by almost $6,600 and a couple with two children has lost just over $8,700.
The National Council of Welfare’s [...]
@ August 18, 2006 # No Comment Yet
For many of the anti-Castro exiles dancing along Miami’s Calle Ocho on Monday, July 31, the announcement of a temporary transfer of power by aging revolutionary Fidel Castro to his younger brother Raúl, marked the happiest of moments as well as the end of a troubled epoch in their lives.
While Cuba awaits Fidel’s recovery [...]
@ August 15, 2006 # No Comment Yet
By Myles Higgins
So, if you live in Newfoundland or Labrador, did you actually make it out on the salt water over the past few of weeks to catch the 5 fish per day you have been permitted to take during August? Boy isn’t it grand how Ottawa has finally let us have access to the [...]
@ August 15, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Chávez’s Anti-U.S. Initiatives Remain More Bark Than Bite
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s political and ideological opposition to the United States has led to an escalating antagonism between the two countries, challenging the super-power’s deep-rooted preeminence in the region. Though Washington has historically enjoyed a positive, albeit asymmetrical, relationship with Venezuela, the U.S. has increasingly resorted to [...]
@ August 14, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Simply Put, Pink is Pink - Get The Colours Right
By Myles Higgins
I’ve long been a proponent of an empowered and emboldened Newfoundland and Labrador but I have to admit there are times when I question whether or not my words, and those of others, are falling on deaf ears. At times there seems to be [...]
@ August 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Greetings Friends,
An ad hoc group of peace activists in Kamloops, B.C., has started an on-line petition to PM Stephen Harper and members of the government of Canada calling on them to actively work to bring about an immediate end to violence in the Middle East in the following ways:
Issue a call for an immediate ceasefire [...]
@ August 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Failure to Condemn Abuses by All Parties Damages Credibility
By adopting a politicized resolution that looks only at Israeli abuses in the current conflict, the Human Rights Council undermined its credibility and wasted an opportunity to protect civilians in the region, Human Rights Watch said today. The council decided to establish a commission of experts to [...]
@ August 10, 2006 # No Comment Yet
A Wider Canal or More Governmental Payola?
In early May of 2006, Panama’s President Martin Torrijos announced the publication of the official summary of the proposed canal expansion project and rallied the nation to support the single largest public works project in that country’s history, after the construction of the Panama Canal. The fate of this [...]
@ August 7, 2006 # No Comment Yet
BP Acts in Response to Spill And Unexpected Corrosion
BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. has begun an orderly and phased shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay oil field following the discovery of unexpectedly severe corrosion and a small spill from a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line. Shutting down the field will take days to complete. Over [...]