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Trade Deals vs. ‘Core Community Values’
Trade Deals vs. ‘Core Community Values’ How a federal ‘no’ to Nova Scotia mine got whacked by NAFTA’s tribunal. Canada lost a big chunk of its sovereignty as well as its right to protect local communities from bad developments earlier this year in a little reported NAFTA tribunal decision. Furthermore the appalling ruling has major […]
How Tories Dumped Your Interests at the Pump
How Tories Dumped Your Interests at the Pump Oil is cheaper by half. So why don’t feds try and deliver savings to drivers? Oil prices have plunged by 50 per cent since last year, but you would never know that looking at what people are paying at the pump. What gives? Don’t ask the Conservatives. […]
‘Media Is Our Last Line of Defence’: Mohamed Fahmy
‘Media Is Our Last Line of Defence’: Mohamed Fahmy Newly pardoned journalist Mohamed Fahmy has ”many thank yous” for fellow Canadians who stood by him through his 411-day imprisonment and two-year legal battle in Egypt. But though he’s grateful for the efforts of Canada’s ambassador and foreign minister on his behalf, the former Al Jazeera bureau chief […]
Famed Journalist Robert Fisk: Canada’s Moral Power Is Lost
Famed Journalist Robert Fisk: Canada’s Moral Power Is Lost Middle East sage on ISIS, refugees, Harper, ‘short-termism’ and more. A Tyee interview. Arguably the world’s most famous international war correspondent, Robert Fisk has been travelling to strife-ravaged regions of the world for over 30 years. His columns — he has been contributing to the British […]
Fall Election Presents Three Internet Privacy Futures
Fall Election Presents Three Internet Privacy Futures Here’s why Canadians should press candidates about warrantless data access. Warranted concern: This election could determine the future path of Canadian law on access to internet subscriber information. Canada’s controversial anti-terrorism bill, Bill C-51, has emerged as a key talking point in the current election campaign. Pointing […]
Harper’s Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
Harper’s Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record Scorching effects of rising temperatures add to chaos in the Middle East, scientists say. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is right about the Syrian refugee crisis, for all the wrong reasons. His government is being battered by outrage over Canada’s wretched response to this humanitarian emergency. […]
After Summer of Drone Dramas, BC Calls for Crackdown
After Summer of Drone Dramas, BC Calls for Crackdown Province tells feds all UAVs should be registered and pilots certified. The British Columbia government wants all drones to be registered and pilots certified, according to a submission to a federal panel looking at the expanding technology. Whether it’s reports of near-misses with airplanes or spying […]
Three Worrying Economic Trends Beyond Canada’s GDP Drop
Three Worrying Economic Trends Beyond Canada’s GDP Drop New data confirms what 79 per cent of Canadians already felt. The much anticipated quarterly GDP numbers are out, and StatsCan confirmed what 79 per cent of Canadians already felt to be the case — Canada’s economy is in decline. A drop in economic activity of 0.1 per cent in the second […]
It’s a Recession: Now, Who’s Hurting and Where?
It’s a Recession: Now, Who’s Hurting and Where? We asked economists from coast to coast to see how Canada is weathering the storm. Canada earned official recession status yesterday, a fact that pundits and politicians on the campaign trail wasted no time trying to spin. According to the latest Statistics Canada data, the country’s gross […]
Harper’s Newspeak
Harper’s Newspeak He loves naming laws with false slogans. (So do fascists.) Newspeak: ‘An impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.’ Photo source: Stephen Harper Flickr. In 1995 the Italian writer Umberto Eco, who grew up in Mussolini’s Italy, wrote an essay on the eternal threat of […]
Senate Reports Offer Insight into Future Tory Privacy, CBC Policies
Senate Reports Offer Insight into Future Tory Privacy, CBC Policies While Duffy trial ruled the news, our upper house released several new documents. The trial of Senator Mike Duffy featured several notable revelations last week about the inner workings of the Prime Minister’s Office. One of the most important was found in a 2013 memo […]
Another Industry Reported Quake in BC’s Fracking Grounds
Another Industry Reported Quake in BC’s Fracking Grounds Regulator says tremor likely industry-caused, but company says it’s too soon to say. Progress Energy, an arm of the Malaysian oil company Petronas, temporarily shut down operations at a wellsite after a 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit an area 114 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John on Aug. […]
The Delusions of David Frum’s Mind
The Delusions of David Frum’s Mind Stephen Harper make you worried and angry? Chill, says Canada’s prodigal Republican son. David Frum is not here anymore. That’s apparent from the defence of Stephen Harper he published in The Atlantic yesterday. It’s full of spin and falsehoods evident to those who actually live in Canada and are paying attention. […]
Rejecting TPP a Matter of Human Rights
Rejecting TPP a Matter of Human Rights Trade deal would put Canada in consort with nation plagued by trafficking, aggressive corps Forget about the dairy farms and supply management. The real reasons Canada should withdraw from its unseemly flirtation with the Pacific Rim trade deal are that it would formalize a trade relationship with a […]
LNG Project Would Affect ‘Grand Central Station’ for Salmon, Researchers Say
LNG Project Would Affect ‘Grand Central Station’ for Salmon, Researchers Say Science letter asks gov, industry to acknowledge ‘full impacts’ of BC project. The proposed Pacific Northwest LNG project and related pipelines located at the mouth of the Skeena River in northern British Columbia would affect more than 40 different salmon populations harvested in at […]
