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Kevin Skerrett
Ottawa XPress
Canada must face up to its part in the “human rights catastrophe” that is post-coup Haiti
This photo arguably shows a crime in progress. It was taken February 29, 2004. The unnamed soldier is from Canada’s JTF2 special ops unit and is in the process of “securing” Haiti’s airport-part of our role in a coup d’
The media and Pierre Pettigrew
It’s not the crude: What the U.S. most needs is our water. We must not let it flow through our hands, says former Alberta premier PETER LOUGHEED
Friday, November 11, 2005
Globe & Mail
I predict that the United States will be coming after our fresh water aggressively within three to five years. We must prepare, to ensure we aren’t trapped in an ill-advised response. It would be a major mistake for Canada to handle this issue badly. With climate change and growing needs, Canadians will need all the fresh water we can conserve, particularly in the western provinces.
by Chris Arsenault
Rabble.ca
November 11, 2005
As poppies adorn every respectable lapel, cannons blare and politicians make speeches praising sacrifice for country in this, the year of the veteran, one group of Canadian freedom fighters dwindles without a penny in pensions or official recognition.
The riots now sweeping France are the product of years of racism, poverty and police brutality.
Naima Bouteldja
Monday November 7, 2005
The Guardian
In late 1991, after violent riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs of Lyon, Alain Touraine, the French sociologist, predicted: “It will only be a few years before we face the kind of massive urban explosion the Americans have experienced.” The 11 nights of consecutive violence following the deaths of two young Muslim men of African descent in a Paris suburb show that Touraine’s dark vision of a ghettoised, post-colonial France is now upon us.
By MURRAY DOBBIN
Globe and Mail
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Stephen Harper suggests that trust is the most important political issue facing Canadians. If so, Canadians should be very wary of the promises the Conservative Leader is making about introducing tougher election spending limits if he becomes prime minister. Mr. Harper has spent much of his political life fighting the very idea of putting limits on corporate spending in elections, strongly opposing efforts to ban corporate donations to political parties. For him, now, to champion such legislation stretches his credibility and our trust to the breaking point.
Stephen Lewis’s 2005 Massey Lectures on AIDS in Africa are running all this week on CBC Ideas (9 pm).
I’ve never heard a more evocative, persuasive, or moving public speaker, and the indictment he lays at the feet of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the G8 nations should shake anyone with an inquisitive mind and an open heart to the very core of their being. Listen if you can.
There’s also an on-line forum about the lectures hosted by House of Anansi.
Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning
All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena risks losing its tax-exempt status because of a former rector’s remarks in 2004.
by Patricia Ward Biederman and Jason Felch
Los Angeles Times
See also “The Non-Profit & the Autonomous Grassroots” by Eric Tang.
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