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Engler: Cars & Capitalism
Znet Article, May, 06 2011
Yves Engler
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Cars facilitate an extra large culture
Engler: Canada & Libya
Znet Article, March, 28 2011
Yves Engler
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Would Stephen Harper attack Libya simply to justify spending tens of billions of dollars on F-35 fighter jets? Perhaps.
Engler: Canada's Contingency Plan
Znet Article, January, 21 2011
Yves Engler
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For more than three decades the RCMP ran PROFUNC, a highly secretive espionage operation and internment plan.
Engler: Canada & Venezuela
Znet Article, December, 12 2010
Yves Engler
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While many on the left know that Washington has spent tens of millions of dollars funding groups that oppose Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, less well known is Ottawa’s role, especially that of the Canadian government’s “arms-length” human right...
Engler: Tea Party & Cars
Znet Article, December, 01 2010
Yves Engler
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If the Tea Party applied its supposed ideas consistently it would take up the slogan: “Oppose big government, say no to cars.” Or for the more fervent among them: “The automobile is a socialist plot.”
Engler: Cars and Class
Znet Article, September, 11 2010
Yves Engler
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A new political party, which won office in Montréal's Plateau Mont-Royal borough last November, has begun to widen sidewalks, add bike paths and close some streets to traffic.
Mugyenyi: GM's Volt
Znet Article, August, 28 2010
Bianca Mugyenyi
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Don't believe the hype. The GM Volt plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is a threat to those who care about livability, equality and the planet.
Engler: Canada Benevolent Actor?
Znet Article, May, 15 2010
Yves Engler
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Despite the widely held belief that Canada is a benevolent international actor, Ottawa usually works to advance this country’s corporate and imperial interests. Torture in Afghanistan, saber rattling on Iran, Israel ‘right or wrong’ and opposition...
Engler: Québec & Haiti
Znet Article, April, 13 2008
Yves Engler
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As an advanced capitalist state, Québec support for Western imperialism in Haiti should not be surprising.
Engler: CIDA: foreign "aid" in name only?
Znet Article, October, 09 2007
Yves Engler
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CIDA: foreign "aid" in name only?
Engler: NGOs and Imperialism
Znet Article, September, 02 2007
Yves Engler
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NGOs and Imperialism
Engler: Profit Medicine Kills
Znet Article, July, 30 2007
Yves Engler
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A front–page article in Friday's New York Times reports "The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected this year that one of every 22 patients would get an infection while hospitalized — 1.7 million cases a year — and that 99,00...
Engler: Responsibility to Protect?
Znet Article, September, 19 2006
Yves Engler
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Does the Canadian-promoted “Responsibility to Protect†doctrine include murder rape, and threats of violence? That’s the question we should be asking Canadian officials after a study in the prestigious Lancet medical jou...
Engler: No Activism?
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Yves Engler
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Sometimes, activism can seem like a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Every activist has heard people say: “Nothing ever changes. Things are the way they are and that’s how it is and always will be. All your complaining an...
Engler: CBCWorkers Should Lock Themselves In
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
Yves Engler
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All progressive Canadians should support workers who are currently “locked out†by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation management. They are fighting an important struggle over the future of public service broadcasting in an era ...
Engler: Market Famines
Znet Article, August, 13 2005
Yves Engler
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Starving children get media attention, well-fed imperial economists don’t. Yet modern history shows they are usually two sides of the famine coin. Over the past month thousands have died of starvation in Niger. All the while food has been...
Engler: Haiti and Media
Znet Article, June, 05 2005
Yves Engler
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Extra, extra, read all about it ... but only in ZNet. Here are just a few of the recent non- or under-reported stories involving Canada and Haiti. Did you read in your local paper that in mid-May, 250 people braved a rainy Sunday morning in downt...
Engler: Haiti Mobilization
Znet Article, April, 06 2005
Yves Engler
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Over sixty people rallied last Tuesday in Montreal in front of both the U.S and French consulates as well as the major federal government offices, marking the 18th anniversary of Haiti’s post-Duvalier (Baby Doc and Papa Doc) constitution. ...
Engler: Haiti Demonstration
Znet Article, March, 07 2005
Yves Engler
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Last weekend Haiti solidarity activism took a leap forward. As many as 50 cities held events commemorating the first anniversary since Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's elected president, was forcibly removed from office by U.S marines and flown to ...
Engler: Haiti Lies
Znet Article, January, 29 2005
Yves Engler
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The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, finally decided to report on Canadian operations in Haiti. In Saturday’s paper Marina Jimenez wrote about Canada’s ongoing role in the hemisphere’s poorest nation. B...
Engler: Haiti Debt
Znet Article, January, 12 2005
Yves Engler
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Last Thursday the World Bank announced it would release $73 million in cash to Haiti’s government of Gerard Latortue that was installed by foreign powers after elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced from office. For Haiti to g...
Engler: Canadian Media on Haiti
Znet Article, November, 05 2004
Yves Engler
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Haiti's a mess. That's about as much we get from Canada's dominant media. The media have been unable to correctly articulate which Haitian constituency has played the larger role in the country's on-going destruction. And, of crucial importance, ...
Engler: RNC Report
Znet Article, September, 07 2004
Yves Engler
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Last week I took an activist-organized bus from Montreal down to the Republican National Convention protests in New York City. Surprisingly, everyone aboard was allowed to cross the border without even stepping off the bus. The only disruption w...
Engler: Status, Health And Stupidity
Znet Article, July, 11 2004
Yves Engler
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U.S. residents are dumber than people living in every other industrialized nation. That conclusion doesn’t come from some left-wing Frenchman or Russian commie or pinko Canadian — it is the logical inference of...
Engler: Driven Crazy
Znet Article, April, 30 2004
Yves Engler
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We've been driven crazy. That's the only possible explanation for the Statistics Canada report this week that Canadians spent $27 billion on car purchases in February, a monthly record. Last week the same government body said car-related spending...
Engler: Car Domination
Znet Article, April, 16 2004
Yves Engler
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What do recent reports about the world’...
Engler: Zero Inflation and the Neoliberal Agenda
Znet Article, February, 23 2004
Yves Engler
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If asked to choose between full employment and constant purchasing power of existing money, most ordinary people would lean towards job creation. That's because almost all of us are dependent on employment for our income. Not so for people with lo...
Engler: Racism in Canada
Znet Article, February, 16 2004
Yves Engler
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Management students at McGill University in Montreal hold an annual dress up winter carnival. This time round the theme was cowboys and Indians and Rastafarians. To get the look, students donned feathered headgear and fake dreadlocks. The cultur...
Engler: Suburban Planning And Public Health
Znet Article, December, 12 2003
Yves Engler
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Today’s biggest public health concern in the advanced capitalist world is fast becoming the rise in obesity. If waist lines continue to expand, the life expectancy of current generations may actually fall into decline, an occurence unseen ...
