Deep Integration, Jesus Style
Now that Prime Sinister Stephen Harper has begun walking down the road to deep integration or at the very least, prostrate homage to w.Caesar, as Canadians who value not thinking in lockstep with “Pax” Americana, we need to stand up and call our government to account. Remember, they are a minority government, after all. Throughout [...]
Gas Taxes vs. Record Oil Company Profits? Easy Answer.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation this week has called for governments in Canada to reduce the taxes they collect on gasoline. Yeah, gas prices are getting high. We should help out every Joe in his single-occupant rush hour commuting vehicle because oil passed $75/barrel. It seems like an easy intervention that in the short term at [...]
West Coast Caledonia
Today’s afternoon rally and march starting at the Vancouver Art Gallery was a moving, enriching time. It was in support of the First Nations in Caledonia, Ontario defending their lands, rights and identity. Rallies I attend at the Art Gallery are often intense, highly motivated, sometimes angry and righteous as we loudly proclaim that various [...]
COPE: A Tonic for NPA Dispossession
The Solidarity Notes choir performed three songs before the Annual General Meeting of Vancouver’s progressive political party, the Coalition of Progressive Electors on Sunday, April 23, 2006. The second was about Coca-Cola and accusations of how the company uses Colombian para-military death squads to murder union organizers. Two lines were spectacular: “Some folks say it’s [...]
His Royal Highness, World Bank King Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz, as president of the World Bank, is no democratically elected leader or monarch. But as the OECD [Organization for Economic Concentration and Domination] world continues to rule the planet, other key international economic organizations like the World Bank/International Monetary Fund junta enact policy to entrench vast global economic disparity and insulate the OECD [...]
Which BC Political Party Do Individuals REALLY Contribute More to?
Dueling press releases [reprinted below] filled our province last week with different spin on the role that individuals play in funding the two main political parties in BC. The neoLiberals claim, “Individuals are the life-blood of our party. They’re the ones who are making a difference by not only donating their money but their time [...]
Misleading Headline: Canadian Poverty Down 25%!!!
Today’s Vancouver version [at least] of the Metro free weekday newspaper had a blindingly annoying headline [see below] about the decline in the number of poor Canadians. Between 2003 and 2004 fewer poor Canadians got so much poorer that they fell under the “low-income cutoff” mark, compared to 1996. This does not mean that there [...]
Marketizing Foreign Aid
This just in from International Trade Canada, an email [below] inadvertently detailing how neoliberal expansion of markets has crept into foreign aid. Sometimes it is just too hard to keep from getting cynical about Canada’s attitude towards foreign aid. Arguing that it is not tied aid or “aid” as domestic corporate welfare is very difficult [...]
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