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October 2006: We Didn’t Really Say “No” to Missile Defence
Canadian complicity and participation in BMD continues Contrary to a widely popular feel-good myth, Canada did not reject participation in the U.S.-led “Ballistic Missile Defence”…
October 2006: The Corporate Frankenstein Monster
Plundering, pillaging, and polluting the planet for profit Earlier this year, I wrote a three-part series under the overall theme I called “the Big Business…
October 2006: The New Economic World Order (Part III: India)
India rapidly re-emerging as a global economic power The Asian century has arrived. Just as China is now the world’s manufacturing center, India is fast…
Workers suffer continent-wide under NAFTA
Three-country study details effects on economies, labour markets CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Twelve years under the rules of the North American Free…
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Risky business
(or why “smart regulation” ain’t so smart) Regulation is a boring topic for most people and if anything, is probably associated in a negative way…
Putting Canadians At Risk
How the federal government’s deregulation agenda threatens health and environmental standards Download 531.52 KB 61 pages Attachments Summary: Putting Canadians At Risk: How the federal…
There’s nothing smart about “smart regulation”—report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Federal deregulation—euphemistically called “smart regulation”—poses a serious threat to public health and the environment, says a new report…
Why are Nova Scotians still discussing Sunday shopping?
Nova Scotians thought they had put the issue to rest in the plebiscite less than two years ago. Yet here we are with Sunday shopping…
June 2006: It Took Them 400 Years to Find Us Again
Agribusiness firms wallow in profits, farmers in losses About six years ago, I met with a group of farmers in Gravelbourg, a mainly French community…
May 2006: Our Leaking Planetary Lifeboat
Pursued much longer, corporate greed will bring disaster Given the dependence of all of Earth’s inhabitants—even the wealthy élite—on the planet’s basic life-support capacity, you…
May 2006: Feeding the Sleeping Pill Addiction
Insomniacs becoming collateral damage in sleep-meds war I recently woke up at three in the morning with the chilling words “collateral damage” ringing in my…
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