Canada’s hidden human rights deficit: Freedom of Association
–Human Rights deficit in Canada. Freedom of association does not fully exist in Canada… at least not in reality.

Canada Begins Annual Seal Cull Amid Call to Boycott its Seafood
–Stupid. Just stupid. This is not the Left. This is the Green movement getting its self backwards again. This has nothing to do with anything rational and does not lead to anything productive at all. It is not even internally consistent. Thus, it is stupid.

Both Sides Prepare for More Conflict Over Arctic Oil Drilling
–The conflict between activists and the government and industry is about to get heated again over the ANWAR oil drilling project.

ZNet |Culture | Bono stage right
–World Bank woes. It continues to be an interesting nomination (Wolfowitz that is) and now Bono is on the scene.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Disarming BC’s Conservation Corps
–Can businesses police themselves? If the people cannot why do we think that businesses can?

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Democratizing Public Services
–The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (my favorite economic/policy thinktank) takes a look at Democratizing Public Services… the way that public services should be.

rabble columns : Bush errs, but not on the side of life
–Scott Piatkowski takes on Bush’s “reasons” for taking up the “right to die” case.

rabble news:Wagging fingers on the way to Waterloo
–Cellucci is leaving and the intergrationists are cheering. They are now trying to pull the “terrorist” card saying that we need to integrate with the US because of security concerns. Yes, I am sure that is the reason, it has, of-course, nothing to do with money.

POLITICS-AMERICAS: Washington Focuses on Southern ‘Axis of Evil’
–Jim Lobe takes a look at the new “Axis of Southern Evil” in the new socialism that is sprouting in South America. These countries have rejected the economic system forced on them by the US and are therefore a threat to US interests.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The rabbi who pricks Israel’s conscience
–This is direct action at its best as far as I am concerned. True Zionists reject the repression of any peoples, especially the Palestinians.

CBC - New Brunswick: N.B. teachers in strike position
–NB Teachers are in a strike position. They have no funds to support a strike but if they are going to get what they need then they will have show that they are needed in the community. The government clearly does not think so at the moment.

CBC - New Brunswick: Hometown heating oil costs more
–The fact that the market in NB is unregulated for heating oil means that NBers are paying more for their oil heat that the rest of the Atlantic Provinces. The “Free Market” is not good for the people of this province and this goes against the rhetoric of the Conservative government and industry.

CBC News: UN peacekeepers headed to Sudan, but not Darfur
–Why can we not stop the war in Darfur. There are people dying. This is so hypocritical and outrageous…

Yahoo! News - Martin’s Senate appointees problematic for opposition parties
–An indepth look at why the opposition parties are against the new Senate appointments. The reasons are consistent: The Senate is not democratic no matter who is appointed.

CBC News: Conservatives will reject budget over Kyoto, Harper says
–The only way that my brain can interpret this is that the Conservatives are against the environment and do not care about our future as a species. This may be a biased point of view but I think I can back it up.

CBC News: Quebec students march on National Assembly
–Students demonstrate for decreased tuition and more public money for education. Why doesn’t the news publish the issue instead of a demonstrator getting dragged away? This is the most bias picture that they could have put up there.

CBC News: No refugee status in Canada for U.S. soldier
–The Court has refused consciencious objector status for the US soldier that has fled to Canada. They should have ruled the other way in my opinion. Canadians think that the us is engaged in an illegal war in Iraq and we should back those that refuse to fight in it.

CBC News: Recent immigrant gives birth to quads; faces big medical bills
–Canadians do not want this kind of thing happening. People who come to this country and have the intent on staying deserve every right to public health care that everyone else has.

CBC Arts: Ottawa moves to quash file swapping
–Here is the news story to the Bill below. Have a read. It is a Big Brother approach to try to stop file sharing. It is Industry that wants this and it will lead the repression of free exchange of information. It will make it illegal for Canadians to swap music on-line.

Government Statement on Proposals for Copyright Reform
–New Copyright act has been proposed in Canada. This may have an effect on the way that file sharing is conducted on the Internet in Canada.

CBC - New Brunswick: Strike deadline looms for teachers
–Teachers in NB are poised to strike. There is no strike fund for the teachers but that will not stop them from demanding fair pay.

CBC - New Brunswick: Weir slams Irving tax deal
–It seems that we only have a couple of people that are fighting for the people in NB any more. The tax deal for Irving should not go through. Robichaud is turning in his grave over the planned changes to the way corporations are taxed in this province.