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  • LET IT BE KNOWN - Propagandized stupider than the fates will allow
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    LET IT BE KNOWN Propagandized stupider than the fates will allow
    Let it be known, that the senior management national news reducers of CBC and CNN, know full well, they would rather watch American Soldiers die as the thieving bad guys, than to defend God’s America by reporting that the demon enemy George W. Bush, and his business partner General Ahmad, committed the terrorist acts of 9/11, along with Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, and Myers.
    We shall, start there, and (…)

  • To Make Coal Mines Safer, Industry Should Look Abroad
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Make Coal Mines Safer, Industry Should Look Abroad USA Today Opinion 2/2/2006 When 72 miners were trapped 3,500 feet down in a Canadian mine by a fire that started early Sunday, the frightening episode ended 26 hours later with the last of the miners emerging unscathed and exuberant.
    What saved their lives?
    They retreated to "safe rooms" scattered throughout the potash mine, where they sealed themselves off from poisonous vapors, drew on supplies of oxygen and food, and waited to (…)

  • Election Morning In Canada- Koincidence from Kanukistan
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MANHATTAN: PHILANTHROPIST STRUCK BY CAR Andrea M. Bronfman, 60, a philanthropist and the wife of Charles R. Bronfman, of the Seagram empire, died yesterday at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital after she was struck by a livery cab while walking her dog, the police said. Mrs. Bronfman, above, was crossing East 65th Street shortly before 7 a.m. when the driver made a left turn from Fifth Avenue and struck her, the police said. The driver’s identity was not released by the police, who (…)

  • Los locos de adentro y la locura de afuera
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Los locos de adentro y la locura de afuera
    Por Erasmo Magoulas*
    Canadá, el país bajo una “democracia aséptica”, casi de laboratorio, (porque el pueblo no la ha tocado por muchos años) va a elecciones federales en la cuarta semana de enero. Pongamos en perspectiva a este país de la “eterna democracia” del cual raramente se lee una noticia en las agencias internacionales de prensa.
    Trabajo en un refugio para “personas sin techo” (eufemismo canadiense-anglosajón para decir indigentes) en (…)

  • GM, the Delphi Concessions, and North American Workers: Round Two?
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sam Gindin
    It is important to recall that, until the 1970s, collective bargaining in the United States and Canada was largely about workers demanding improvements from their employers. But a new era in collective bargaining erupted at the end of the 1970s that was soon dubbed "concessionary bargaining." Corporations were now the ones making the demands. Tensions had been building through the decade, with corporations increasingly asserting that they could no longer both maintain profit (…)

  • Maher Arar: Timeline
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria in 1970, came to Canada in 1987. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer engineering, Arar worked in Ottawa as a telecommunications engineer.
    On a stopover in New York as he was returning to Canada from a vacation in Tunisia in September 2002, U.S. officials detained Arar, claiming he has links to al-Qaeda, and deported him to Syria, even though he was carrying a Canadian passport.
    When Arar returned to Canada more than a (…)

  • How America plotted to stop Kyoto deal
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Buncombe in Montreal
    A detailed and disturbing strategy document has revealed an extraordinary American plan to destroy Europe’s support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
    The ambitious, behind-the-scenes plan was passed to The Independent this week, just as 189 countries are painfully trying to agree the second stage of Kyoto at the UN climate conference in Montreal. It was pitched to companies such as Ford Europe, Lufthansa and the German utility giant RWE.
    Put (…)

  • BC Teachers Go Back to Work — Who Won the Battle?
    27 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bob Rosen
    For the first time in two weeks, public schools in British Columbia were open for business yesterday. Teachers had voted over the weekend by a 77% margin to accept a mediated settlement to the dispute recommended by arbitrator Vince Ready. In the wake of the decision, there is much public debate and discussion, including among the ranks of teachers, about what was achieved in the struggle.
    Last Thursday, Ready released his proposed settlement. It included an award of $40 (…)

  • Bush publication ban lifted
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By matthew burrows
    Publish Date: 20-Oct-2005
    A Vancouver lawyer has won a procedural victory in her attempt to prosecute U.S. President George W. Bush under the Criminal Code.
    Gail Davidson, cofounder of an international group of jurists called Lawyers Against the War, expressed her delight on October 18 following the lifting of a publication ban on court proceedings against the U.S. president.
    “It’s great news, but really they had no choice,” Davidson told the Georgia Straight. (…)

  • A Small Victory: Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 20, 2005
    A Small Victory
    Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    By JUSTINE DAVIDSON
    On Monday, October 17th Gail Davidson and Howard Rubin along with Jason Gratl and Micheal Vonn representing B.C. Civil Liberties stepped into courtroom 55 of the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver with the hopes of lifting the publication ban which, since December of 2004 August, has kept the case out of the public eye. After a relatively short session of 45 minutes they emerged successful. "I (…)