July 11, 2008 TheTyee.ca

Canada is “re-engaging with the Americas.” That’s what Minister of International Trade David Emerson told the Canada Council for the Americas in Vancouver this past February, elaborating that Canada wants to play “a positive role” to “help citizens throughout the region thrive in the world.” (Keep reading…)

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10 July 2008

In a continuation of their struggle for justice in the face of unlawful appropriation of their land, the people of Bil’in village yesterday commenced legal proceedings before the Superior Court of Quebec against Green Park International Inc. and Green Mount International Inc. The defendants are Canadian corporations registered in the Province of Quebec who have been involved in constructing, marketing and selling residential units in the illegal Jewish-Israeli settlement of Modi’in Illit in the occupied West Bank, on the land of the village of Bil’in.   (Keep reading…)

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Globe and Mail July 9, 2008

Question: When is a carbon tax not a carbon tax?

Answer: When it’s collected by corporations (instead of governments) and the revenues go to investors (instead of services and infrastructure). (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail July 4, 2008

This year, July 1 was Order of Canada Day. What a racket. Louder than fireworks. It can’t go to anyone controversial, some howled. Or it ought to be a symbol of unity. And what does this say about Canadian democracy? (Keep reading…)

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1356/1/ 01 July 2008

This January, after little more than 6 months of negotiations, the Canadian Government announced the completion of negotiations of the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Keep reading…)

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Winnipeg Free Press June 18, 2008

Deputy Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is thinking the unthinkable; saying the unsayable. He’s publicly questioning Canada’s energy policy; or more accurately, its complete lack of one. Ignatieff compared a national oil pipeline in the 21st century to the national railway in the 19th. The railway was ridiculed in its day as economic madness. “But without it, we wouldn’t have a country… I look at the east-west linkages that tie our country together,” he told Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin, “and I do wonder whether they are strong enough to offset the north-south flows that dominate our economy. The oil, the natural gas, the hydro — it all flows south. Where is the national grid to share our power, the east-west pipeline to share our oil and to guarantee our energy security as a nation?” (Keep reading…)

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