The Proposed $10 Million Inquiry Into The BC Rail Scandal
Why are Public Inquiries into various kinds of wrongdoing undertaken? What's ahead for the proposed NDP (to be established) Public Inquiry into the BC Rail Scandal?
View ArticleSleeping through trade agreements, waking up to corporate empire
In the old days, back in the 20th Century, most discussions on unfair trade focused on how World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and corporate monopolies placed Third World countries and their people...
View ArticleCanada's two-tier approach to trade talks
While the need for business insight as part of trade talks is understandable, the two-tier approach raises serious concerns about the lack of transparency. As the future of the proposed Canada -...
View ArticleDid We Think ... We Canadians?
The political landscape of Canada has been devastated. Where a sense of public good prevailed, there is now a powerful neo-liberal anti rule of law movement engaged in by government and corporations...
View ArticleTrial opens for police officer charged in alleged G20 assault
A Toronto man testified he was given no warning before he was beaten and arrested by police while taking photographs of mounted officers at a G20 protest three years ago. A Toronto man testified he...
View ArticleThe B.C May Election. Collaboration and the NDP
Reasons have proliferated for the surprising and dramatic loss by the B.C. New Democrats to the (neo-liberal) Liberals in the May 14 election. The basic reason may be very simple, a result of...
View ArticleB.C. First Nation challenging Canada-China free trade agreement
Members of a small British Columbia aboriginal band are in a federal court room in Vancouver this week, as their 300-member community tries to stop the federal government from passing a free trade...
View ArticleSix Canadians invited to secretive Bilderberg conference
Six Canadians are among the powerful group of business leaders, academics and media invited to this year’s highly secretive Bilderberg conference, according to the official guest list. Among the...
View ArticleAfter the B.C. NDP, The Next Gigantic Step
The calamitous B.C. May 14 provincial election revealed the destructive role of the B.C. NDP to all aspects of life in the province. The pressing question is what next? What solution?
View ArticleKeep your money out of the banks people!
Cyprus-Style “Bail-Ins” Are Proposed In The New 2013 Canadian Government Budget!
View ArticleCanada Being Assimilated Into a U.S. Dominated North American Security Perimeter
The Beyond the Border action plan is the most significant step forward in U.S.-Canada cooperation since NAFTA. It provides the framework for future North American integration. When fully implemented,...
View ArticleBrent Rathgeber: Standing Up For Responsible Government
Up until the 1840s, the British colonies that would become Canada were led by unelected, unaccountable governors. While there were elected legislatures, the members of these legislatures had no real...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Hon. Neil Wittmann, Chief Justice, Court of Queen's Bench
An Open Letter invites Chief Justice (Alberta) Wittmann to discuss the growing sense among observers that the higher courts of Canada are increasingly corrupt. The letter refers to Chief Justice...
View ArticleReflections On Canada Day: What Are Some Canadian Traits?
’m writing this on the morning of Canada Day, thinking about all the fascinating things I’ve read about and seen, and all the interesting people I’ve met. One thing I’ve come across over and over...
View ArticleThe Reserve Paradox, Part One: The Same Old Story
We have been fighting for so long that the original misunderstandings and differences that created this conflict have been forgotten. Various tactics have been tried by one side and countered by the...
View ArticleThe Reserve Paradox, Part Two: Telling A New Story
Aboriginal people in Canada today suffer from much higher rates of poverty, illness, dysfunction and incarceration than non-Native Canadians. Many non-Native Canadians believe that this is due to the...
View ArticleReflecting on Canadas National Sovereignty: Americas Plan to Annex and Invade
Canada Day July 1st is an opportunity for Canadians to reflect on issues of national sovereignty. Territorial control over Canada has been part of Washington’s geopolitical and military agenda since...
View ArticlePrivatization's the Name of the Game for Accident-Prone Train Company
Privatization's the Name of the Game for Accident-Prone Train Company Behind Lac-Mégantic Oil Disaster As the head of the company behind the runaway oil train that derailed and caused a fireball...
View ArticleHungry Canadian aboriginal children were used in government experiments
Hungry Canadian aboriginal children were used in government experiments during 1940s, researcher says New historical research says hungry aboriginal children and adults were once used as unwitting...
View ArticleKenneth Leslie and The Jackpine Sonnets
Kenneth Leslie, poet, wrote it long and strong-lunged. For his duty, critics ripped out his tongue. “Poem of One of the Poems for Which Kenneth Leslie was Damned” Milton Acorn
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