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Zirin: When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown
Znet Article, February, 10 2010
Dave Zirin
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News Flash: Winter Olympic officials in tropical Vancouver have been forced to import snow - on the public dime - to make sure that the 2010 games proceed as planned. This use of tax-dollars is just the icing on the cake for increasingly angry Van...
Zirin: As Olympics near, people in Vancouver are dreading Games
Znet Article, January, 30 2010
Dave Zirin
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The International Olympic Committee has leased every sign and billboard in town to broadcast Olympic joy, but they can't purchase people's faces. It's clear that the 2010 Winter Games has made the mood in the bucolic coastal city decidedly overcas...
Zirin: As Olympics near, people in Vancouver are dreading Games
Znet Article, January, 30 2010
Dave Zirin
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The International Olympic Committee has leased every sign and billboard in town to broadcast Olympic joy, but they can't purchase people's faces. It's clear that the 2010 Winter Games has made the mood in the bucolic coastal city decidedly overcas...
Bacon: Should We Defend Undocumented Workers?
Zmag Article, January, 28 2010
David Bacon
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The effects of a law that makes it a crime to work
Monbiot: The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is … Canada
Znet Article, December, 09 2009
George Monbiot
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The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How could that be true?
Goodman: Canada's Olympic Crackdown
Znet Article, December, 03 2009
Amy Goodman
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Going to Canada? You may be detained at the border and interrogated. I was, last week. I was heading from Seattle to give a talk at the Vancouver Public Library. My detention provoked outrage across Canada, making national news. It has serious imp...
Zirin: Amy Goodman and Canada's Olympic Paranoia
Znet Article, November, 28 2009
Dave Zirin
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When it comes to independent, agitational journalism, the standard is Amy Goodman and her radio/television institution, Democracy Now! Goodman and her staff often find themselves accosted by officials, foreign and domestic. This happened again on ...
Tuathail: Where will you stand on the Canada-Colombia FTA?
Znet Article, October, 07 2009
Micheál Tuathail
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I spent a good part of the other week watching the performances of Liberals and Conservatives in the Canadian House of Commons as they debated Bill C-23, implementing legislation of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA).
Engler: Canadian Armed Forces
Commentary, October, 06 2009
Yves Engler
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Reducing the size of the Canadian Armed Forces should be a priority for those of us that want a more peaceful world. It should also be a priority for anyone concerned about the environment.
Healy: No Technofix for the Third World
Commentary, September, 24 2009
Sean Healy
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Humans can make all kinds of nifty things - the axe, the wheel, the spinning jenny, the aeroplane, the pill, the Pentium III, vanilla ice cream - and can achieve all sorts of magical things with them.
Engler: Anti-Semitism in Canada
Commentary, September, 20 2009
Yves Engler
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Despite a loud chorus claiming otherwise, anti-Semitism is a mere fig leaf of its former oppressive character. Six decades ago "none is too many" was the order of the day in Ottawa, which rejected Jewish refugees escaping Nazi concentration camps....
Panitch: Workers of the World Unite!
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Leo Panitch
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What is the significance of the way not only Keynes but even Marx has been brought back into fashion amidst the global economic crisis? This is a question well worth pondering on the day that is officially designated to celebrate the class that Ma...
Gindin: The End of Retirement?
Znet Article, August, 25 2009
Sam Gindin
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The attack on private sector pensions is not new; while the process has been uneven across time and sectors, private pensions in the U.S. and Canada have been eroding for over a quarter of a century. In 1980, some 40% of U.S. private sector worker...
Engler: The dominant Canadian media's coverage of the coup in Honduras has been atrocious.
Commentary, August, 16 2009
Yves Engler
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Even a close observer of the Canadian press would know almost nothing about the ongoing demonstrations, blockades and work stoppages calling for the return of elected President Manuel Zelaya. Since Zelaya was overthrown by the military on June 28 ...
Davidson: Pittsburgh: Worker Coops Meet to Save the Rust Belt and the Rest of Us, Too
Znet Article, August, 10 2009
Carl Davidson
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Firsthand report by Carl Davidson from the 5th Eastern Conference on Workplace Democracy, held at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, July 30-Aug 2.
Engler: Canada & Honduras
Commentary, July, 06 2009
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
At Saturday's special meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Canada's minister for the Americas, Peter Kent, recommended that ousted President Manuel Zelaya delay his planned return to the country. Kent said the "time is not right" p...
Podur: Canada Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Znet Article, June, 03 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The following set of questions and answers are intended to help those in Canada trying to stop the CCFTA (or see to it that it stays down).
Engler: Canada & the Caribbean
Commentary, May, 15 2009
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
On Sunday military forces trained by the Canadian Special Operational Regiment subdued a hijacker who took command of a Halifax-based CanJet plane at an airport partly run by Vancouver Airport Services. While Canadian companies and institutions pl...
Engler: Canadian Mining
Commentary, April, 27 2009
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
Three weeks ago, the Harper government rejected a proposal to make diplomatic and financial support for resource companies operating overseas contingent upon socially responsible conduct. Under popular pressure, the Mining Association of Canada ag...
Sinclair: George Galloway & Canada
Znet Article, April, 27 2009
Ian Sinclair
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Travelling through North America one summer several years ago I spent several relaxing days in the fine city of Winnipeg. During one lazy stroll along the river and around the historic Exchange District I had the good fortune of stumbling across t...
