When Conservatives Question Corporate Motives
I am always pleased when conservatives question the social commitment of corporations. You don’t actually have to be a radical left winger to reasonably question whether corporations care about us, profits or the damage from oil in the Gulf. I know it is irresponsible for any sensible person to adopt the radical left wing stance [...]
A Race to the Bottom on Truck Emissions?
Harmonizing anything with the United States risks a race to the bottom. Have we done it again with truck emissions? Canada and the U.S. will set common standards for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty vehicles, Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced today. via Prentice: Canada, US will align regulations on truck emissions :: The Hook. [...]
Stop Colombia From Privatization at Gun Point
In BC we know too well what a rabidly anti-union government can do to the lives of unionized and non-unionized working people. Colombia is the poster child in this hemisphere for extremism among these neoliberal, anti-human carnage-mongers. And our federal government wants to increase trade with this murderous regime! It’s time to let Colombia–and our [...]
Gullible Gord: A Compendium of Campbell’s Fear and Desperation
“Incompetence is combined with thoughtlessness, arrogance and hubris — a fatal mix.” via Spare Us from Gullible Gord :: Views :: thetyee.ca. Rarely is there an article that so succinctly lists evidence of Campbell’s extraordinary dislocation from reality, worship of neoliberalism and disregard for citizens and communities. Rape and pillage for the lowest financial return [...]
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Wendy Yuan’s Policy Emptiness is Bad for Vancouver-Kingsway
A vote for the NDP and Don Davies is a vote for progress, humanity and real political representation in Vancouver-Kingsway. A vote for the Liberals and Wendy Yuan is a vote for the federal Liberal party “brand”, elitist and pro-corporate policies and the Paul Martin-David Emerson gang. Worst of all, NOT voting is a vote [...]
Merging Canada’s and USA’s Military
Just call this another left-wing internet site promoting the news that DND and DFAIT hasn’t yet bothered to mention. Its surreal being in the same camp as the [often] radical, protectionist right-wing in the USA denouncing MexAmeriCanada-creep. By the way, David Pugliese is an example of how despite its undermining of a free press, CanWest [...]
MexAmeriCanada: The SPP and Our Class War
Shining a light on cockroaches is always fascinating to watch as they scurry around with the “Who, Me?” look on their face. Too many people found out about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment in the late 1990s. Secretly implementing a corporate bill of rights was not terribly appealing for real human beings who found that [...]
Steve’s New Hoax: Legislative Ratification of Treaties
I’ve taken to calling it Executive Overdrive: the urge in BC, Ottawa and elsewhere for the executive branch of government to find ways of secretly doing constitutionally significant things [like the SPP or creating a de facto economic union between BC and Alberta with TILMA [which you've probably never heard of]] without legislative oversight or [...]
Moving Past Complacency in Protest
Activists need some inspiration. Salutin’s piece in the Globe today [see below] is key to reminding us of the necessity of a fight, not just a polite march through some streets to a park for a peaceful rally. That’s important. However, the injustices seeping into the fabric of our rapidly decaying democracy need to be [...]
No to MexAmeriCanada: Vancouver Protests the SPP
Tearing up the Magna Carta We are witnessing the dismantling of the Magna Carta with the North American Union, The Security and Prosperity Partnership [SPP] and the North American Competitiveness Council. Almost 800 years ago we somehow wrestled the elites of the British monarchy to issue the Magna Carta, a bill of rights for humanity, [...]
Police States ‘R Us
A 25 km security perimeter is fascinating, as is turning away cars with more than 5 people in them. But forcing a public centre to not rent space for a public meeting is astonishing. Essentially, the right to free public association is arbitrarily over. This is the context in which the new North American Union [...]
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