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Engler: Canadian Mining
Commentary, April, 27 2009
Yves Engler
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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...
Engler: Canada & Eastern Europe
Commentary, April, 13 2009
Yves Engler
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At the end of February Stephen Harper referred to Russia as "aggressive." In a throwback to the Cold War, two weeks ago Defense Minister Peter MacKay added that Ottawa will respond to Russian flights in the Arctic by flying Canadian fighter jets n...
Fisk: Galloway a victim of Canada's baffling approach to fighting terror
Znet Article, April, 03 2009
Robert Fisk
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How could the Canadian embassy in London have believed Mr Galloway's food and medicine shipment to Gaza, made with Israel's agreement, and its delivery to the Hamas government was a "terrorist" act, even if Stephen Harper's Canadian government reg...
Davidson: Solidarity Economy Conference 2009
Znet Article, April, 01 2009
Carl Davidson
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First hand report from the gathering of hundreds of Solidarity Economy activists at Amherst, Mass, March 19-22, 2009.
Engler: Myths for Profit
Commentary, March, 28 2009
Yves Engler
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A major obstacle for anyone organizing to "right" a Canadian foreign policy "wrong" is the widely held notion that this country acts benevolently on the world stage. "Myths for Profit," a recently released documentary written and directed by Amy M...
Engler: Canada & Latin America
Commentary, March, 18 2009
Yves Engler
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During the first half of the 20th century, Toronto-based Brazilian Traction (or Brascan) dominated the Brazilian economy. At its high point in the 1940s, the company employed nearly 50,000 Brazilians.
Shiva: Globalization And Its Fall Out
Commentary, March, 16 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
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Globalization was imposed on the world with a promise of peace and prosperity. Instead we are faced with war and economic crisis. Not only has prosperity proved elusive, the minimal economic securities of people and countries are fast disappearing.
Podur: Two Leaps, Two Ironies, and a Joke
Znet Article, March, 09 2009
Justin Podur
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Below are my annotations (notes in bold) to a memo written by Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff's memo denounced a campus lecture series, Israeli Apartheid Week.
Said: Problems of Neoliberalism
Commentary, March, 06 2009
Edward Said
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In the decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, most of the world is in the grip of an ideology whose most dramatic embodiment is currently to be found in the race between the two main candidates for the American presidency. Without wishing to l...
Rebick: Memo to Minister Kenney
Znet Article, March, 04 2009
Judy Rebick
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As Israeli Apartheid Week gets underway, there is a major campaign currently underway to deny freedom of expression on campus to those in solidarity with Palestine on the basis of alleged anti-Semitism.
Podur: Canada's War on Terror Hangover
Znet Article, February, 28 2009
Justin Podur
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On February 20, the Federal Court of Canada dropped most of the conditions it had placed on one of the prisoners of its “security certificate†regime, Adil Charkaoui. While much of his life is still lived in the rights-free zone widened under ...
Ali: Obama: Imperialism with a Human Face
Znet Article, February, 16 2009
Tariq Ali
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An Interview...
Engler: Canada is Israel
Commentary, February, 13 2009
Yves Engler
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The Harper government publicly supported Israel's brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel's actions. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally.
Engler: Canada in Africa
Commentary, January, 31 2009
Yves Engler
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In mid December, Robert Fowler, a career Canadian diplomat who is currently the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Niger, and his aide Louis Guay, an official at Foreign Affairs, were abducted in Niger. They were kidnapped not long after visi...
Engler: Canada & Israel's Occupation
Commentary, January, 15 2009
Yves Engler
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The Canadian Left has taken a major step forward in opposition to Zionism. On Saturday Montréal held probably the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in Canadian history. Despite some ridiculous media reports, I estimate that there were between...
Podur: Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Znet Article, January, 08 2009
Justin Podur
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If national media help make a nation, then we all need to stop reading and listening to conventional Canadian media if we want to make a decent Canada.
Engler: Canada in Afghanistan
Commentary, January, 08 2009
Yves Engler
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Are highly secretive Canadian Joint Task Force 2 commandos assassinating Afghanis during night raids?
D'arcy: Thinking About Protest Tactics
Znet Article, December, 17 2008
Steve D'arcy
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This article discusses how to develop a winning strategy by carefully choosing effective tactics. Discussion about strategy and tactics can sometimes seem like a waste of time, delaying 'action.' But what is really a waste of time is embarking on ...
Klein: 'We Can't Lose This Moment'
Znet Article, December, 05 2008
Naomi Klein
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We are seeing an example of what I call in the book a "shock resistance," where this tactic has been so overused around the world and also in Canada that we are becoming more resistant to the tactic - we are on to them - and Harper is not getting ...
