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  • The Day the Wheat Board Died
    Feature, Food, GMO Food, Mar-Apr-2013-Vol23-No2, Society

    by Gavin Fridell

    In 2012, the Conservatives ended the 70-year monopoly seller status of the Canadian Wheat Board, one of the world’s largest and most successful “state trading enterprises.” The government decision came without a vote among prairie grain farmers, required by the Canadian Wheat Board Act, and despite a 2011 plebiscite in which a majority of farmers voted to maintain the Board’s status. The matter is now before the courts, but the Board cannot simply be revived after having been dismantled. Instead, a coalition of farmer groups has launched a class action suit against the government seeking billions of dollars in compensation.

  • Feeding My Family - Food Insecurity in the North
    Feature, Aboriginal Rights & Title, First Nations, Food, Mar-Apr-2013-Vol23-No2, Food

    by Susan MacVittie

    When Leesee Papatsie started the Facebook group, Feeding My Family, to raise awareness of the high price of food in the North and to gather Nunavummiut for a demonstration, she began with two people who said they wanted to help. Since that time in May, the FB group has caught the attention of the world, gathering over 19,000 members – more than half the population of Nunavut, where Papatsie lives.

  • Judge Presiding Over Ernst vs Encana Fracking Case Re-Appointed
    Fracking, Natural gas, Oil

    Jessica Ernst (pictured here) is on the road to becoming another unsung Canadian hero. The Harper government has appointed Honourable Justice Barbara L. Veldhuis, a Court of Queen Judge who has been presiding over the case Ernst vs Encan, to the Court of Appeal in Alberta, which means a decision is delayed, until another judge is appointed to this highprofile lawsuit.

  • BC Forest Tenure: Bill 8 is dangerous and outrageous.
    BC forests, Corporations, Privatization

    Bill 8 is dangerous and outrageous. 

    For example, a corporation may apply to the government for a TFL, notify (not consult with) the public asking for feedback within a short period of time, and, then, the corporation reports back to government telling it what it heard from the public.  

  • Investigating Habanero Peppers on Prostate Cancer
    Feature, cancer, Jan-Feb-2013-Vol23-No1, Health & Toxics

    Habanero pepper and prostrate cancerby Susan MacVittie

    When Ed Wolf was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, he was determined to seek alternate treatment, which led him to the discovery of the cancer killing properties in habanero peppers.

  • Stephen Harper, the Lance Armstrong of Politics
    Harper

    Michael Harris at Ipolitics nails the entire bag of lies that is the Harper method of government. "It’s too bad the Soviet Union collapsed. There would have been a nice job waiting for Tony at Pravda." That's only one memorable line from "We’re living in a golden age of falsehood."

     

  • The State of Science in Canada
    Climate change, Harper

    Published in a fine website from the Shuswap (Aim High Salmon Arm), Dr. Art Borkent has given us a wonderful summary of the state of the study of insects in Canada, why it matters, and what is wrong with the suppression of science which the current government(s) are instituting.

  • What the Hell Were You Thinking?
    Climate change, Enbridge

    Words From and For the Future. Testimony at the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Hearings, Vancouver, January 31, 2013

     

  • UNEP Global Mercury Treaty – the Minamata Convention - A Weak Treaty
    mercury, UN

    [Once again, an international treaty (with little teeth)]

    by Anna Tilman

    What impact will it have on reducing global mercury pollution? What protection will it provide to vulnerable communities? Will it prevent future tragedies like Minamata disease in Japan and Ontario? Will it ban the international illegal trade in mercury, especially affecting the developing countries? Will it bring in measures to ban the use of mercury in consumer and health products?

  • Vietnam and the Opening of Hell
    Social justice, US

    “If one man and his tiny team could claim more KIAs [killed in action] than an entire battalion without raising red flags among superiors; if a brigade commander could up the body count by picking off civilians from his helicopter with impunity; if a top general could institutionalize atrocities through the profligate use of heavy firepower in areas packed with civilians -- then what could be expected down the line, especially among heavily armed young infantrymen operating in the field for weeks, angry, tired, and scared, often unable to locate the enemy and yet relentlessly pressed

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