The Dominion September 8, 2008

Canada is the largest foreign supplier of oil to the United States, sending more than one million barrels of oil per day to its southern neighbour, about half of which originates from Alberta’s tar sands. Barack Obama’s top energy advisor has hesitations regarding the climate impact of Alberta’s oil. (Keep reading…)

Institute for Policy Studies April 15, 2008 http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5152

President George W. Bush will soon host what has become an annual “Three Amigos Summit.” The leaders of Mexico, the United States, and Canada will be gathering in New Orleans on April 21 and 22. What do you suppose is on the agenda? A rational response to immigration, perhaps? A thoughtful renegotiation of the unpopular North American Free Trade Agreement? Lessons from Canada’s affordable medicines program? (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail
March 7, 2008

What’s with the NAFTA panic attacks some Canadians are having? They can’t really believe the Americans would pull out of their big trade deal with us and Mexico. Maybe it’s strategy on their part, like that trickster Brer Rabbit. Brer Fox traps Brer Rabbit and is carrying him to the cook pot. “Do anything to me,” pleads the rabbit, “but don’t throw me into the briar patch.” So the fox does. But don’t throw us out of the NAFTA patch. Right. If only. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press March 5, 2008

Canadians and Mexicans should pressure their governments to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement — Canadians to regain control over energy and Mexicans to regain control over agricultural land. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail February 26, 2008

WASHINGTON — Canada’s growing reliance on U.S. capital markets is playing a greater role than cross-border trade in importing American economic woes to Canada, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail February 6, 2008

The issue of how well protected Canada’s water is from bulk exports has always been hotly contested. (Keep reading…)

Inter Press Service January 24, 2008

VANCOUVER - Despite the government’s official position abstaining from combat in Iraq, Canada has dispatched yet another top general to the command group overseeing day-to-day operations for the US-led occupation and counterinsurgency war. (Keep reading…)

Canada is the kind of oil supplier the U.S. can rely on, and no one knows it better than the Texans (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, January/February 2008

To live under external ownership and control has been the common fate of Canadians, and has powerfully conditioned our lives and our politics. Aboriginal people were so treated from early on by the settlers who, in turn, embraced their own lot as imperial subjects. As formal sovereignty shifted over time to the margin of empire, the tendency nevertheless was to welcome foreign capital to Canada, even to proclaim loudly that Canada was “open for business.” The rising American corporation of the late nineteenth century spilled over the border into Canada to the applause of Canadians. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Sep 5 2007

IMAGINE how relieved the Three Amigos were when David Ganong’s jelly beans emerged as the lead story from the conclusion of last month’s North American Summit in Montebello, Que. The real issues were much stickier: bulk water transfers from Canada to the U.S., more compulsory sharing of Canadian energy and wholesale adoption of U.S. security, health, environmental and food standards. (Keep reading…)