Corporations and corporate power

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Ottawa; January 24, 2000--The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives today released a report, The Missing News, which documents and analyzes recurring blind spots in news coverage by Canada's print media. "These blind spots are related to institutional filters and corporate pressures on journalists' working conditions," said Dr. Robert Hackett one of the study's authors and a professor of communication at Simon Fraser University.
For the past 10 years, CCPA Monitor Editor Ed Finn has been writing about the various aspects of corporate rule, and about the poverty, inequality and insecurity that corporate greed has inflicted on so many people. He has also offered practical advice about how corporate rule can be challenged. In "Who Do We Try to Rescue Today?" Finn's commentaries over the last several years have been assembled in book form for easy reading and reference.
OTTAWA--Canadian farmers are struggling with near-record low prices and many face bankruptcy unless the current crisis is adequately addressed by the federal and provincial governments. But governments are mistakenly blaming Canadian farmers' plight on the domestic agricultural subsidies supplied to farmers in other countries, primarily in Europe. They are ignoring the real cause of the crisis, which is the enormous imbalance in market power and income between the big agribusiness corporations and the family-owned farms.
Canadian farmers are struggling with near-record low prices and many face bankruptcy unless the current crisis is adequately addressed by the federal and provincial governments. The real cause of this crisis is the enormous imbalance in market power and income between the big agribusiness corporations and the family-owned farms, not the domestic agricultural subsidies supplied to farmers in other countries. This study finds that the market is failing to return a fair and adequate share of the consumer dollar to farmers.
In this book Steven Shrybman, the Executive Director of the West Coast Environmental Law Association analyzes the scope and influence of the WTO. He shows how its using its extraordinary powers to force governments--including Canada's--to change their policies to cater to corporate interests. Canada has already felt the impact of WTO rulings, most recently when our policy on split-run magazines was challenged.