Category Archives: Front Page
Budget rewards the rich and fails working Canadians – unions
The federal government’s 2015 budget puts millions of seniors at risk of poverty, abandons families in need of affordable child care and quality public health care, and fails to create good jobs and spur economic growth while maintaining unreasonably low
BC First Nation’s woman wins international environmental prize
A British Columbia First Nations woman who lead her community in defeating one of the largest proposed gold and copper open pit mines in Canada has won the world’s largest international prize for grassroots environmental activists, awarded by the Goldman Environmental
Canadian uranium could end up in Indian nukes, experts warn
Canadian uranium could end up in Indian nuclear weapons triggering a new arms race between India and Pakistan, according to about 200 international experts and delegates of the World Uranium Symposium who denounced the Canada-India uranium deal signed on the
Hunters, trappers and anglers drive conservation in North America
By Professor Mark Boyce, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Hunters and anglers are the primary stimulus for conservation in North America. We support conservation more than any other interest group, and most conservation programs in North America
Vote for Harper and reward contempt for democracy
By Michael Nabert Having the first and only Prime Minister in Canadian history to be found in contempt of Parliament running the country seems a lot like having a daycare run by someone publicly proud of the fact that they
Mexico’s press goes to town after Canadian mining CEO admits ‘good relationship’ with drug cartels
The admission by a CEO of a Canadian mining company to having a “good relationship” with drug cartels in Mexico has received widespread coverage in the Mexican press. “The cartels are active down there…Generally, we’ve had a good relationship with
Foreign crews in domestic shipping recipe for ‘catastrophic’ oil spills
Foreign-flagged vessels employing exploited and overworked foreign crews who have neither vested interest in Canadian waterways nor the experience to navigate them are bound to cause environmental catastrophes like the oil spill in Vancouver this week, Canadian seafarers warn. The
Challenges faced by Canadian SMEs competing globally
By Dr. Rebecca Reuber, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management It’s important to recognize that internationalizing their sales and business activities is really difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). There are business risks associated
Why bomb Syria when Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya taught us bombs don’t bring democracy
By Don Davies NDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway, BC The old adage that those who do not pay attention to history are doomed to repeat it, I think, is time-tested and true. I will review what has been the experience
TFW program allows employers to target vulnerable women for sexual abuse and violence
By Fay Faraday, Lawyer, Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School For the last 25 years I have been working with low-wage migrant workers across all the different streams of temporary labour migration: the seasonal agricultural worker program, the live-in caregiver
