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October 2008: Foreign Ownership
Canada “open for business”—especially non-Canadian business A miracle occurred on May 9, 2008, right here in Canada. For the first time in 23 years, that routinely spineless entity known as…
October 2008: We’re the Major Supplier of Uranium for Nuclear Weapons
Canada is violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty An Interview with Professor Jim Harding While the U.S. appears to be on the verge of attacking Iran just for having a nuclear…
October 2008: An Unbefitting Retrofit
Quebec government flouts its own policies on nuclear power While the rest of the world was focused on the Beijing Olympics last summer, the Quebec government was engaged in a…
October 2008: Prescription for Trouble
Government’s links to Big Pharma threat to public health Does anyone remember that the Conservative party, just four years ago, promised to implement a national drug plan? During the 2004…
October 2008: Poverty Amidst Plenty
Why isn’t inequality a key issue in the latest election? This column is being written in the middle of a federal election campaign, the outcome of which most readers will…
October 2008: Horrendous Health and Environmental Toll
Downstream from the tar sands, people are sick, dying There’s deformed pickerel in Lake Athabasca… Pushed-in faces, bulging eyes, humped back, crooked tails… never used to see that. Great big…
October 2008: Health Canada and Drug Safety
More people exposed to unsafe drugs before withdrawal Evaluating the safety of prescription drugs prior to approval and monitoring their safety once they have been marketed should be a major…
Septmeber 2008: Tips for consultants
Here’s how to fool most of the people most of the time With an alarmed public increasingly holding government and industry to account for a multitude of environmental and social…
September 2008: The WTO Doha Round Breakdown
Developing nations are blamed, but they blame the U.S. The World Trade Organization’s meeting in Geneva in July, as it opened, was described by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy as a…
September 2008: A New Pension Debate?
Most workers today are facing bleak retirement prospects Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a big Canadian pensions debate, centred mainly on the issue of how to address…
September 2008: The Decline of Collectivity
Triumph of individualism a defeat for society as a whole A few years ago, former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed astonished us by denouncing what he called “the decline of collectivity”…
September 2008: Canada’s Real Role in Iraq
Our new Defence Chief commanded U.S. troops in Iraq During his three decades of military service, Canada’s new Chief of Defence–L.Gen Walter Natynczyk–has led soldiers in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and…
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