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June 13, 2008 Canada concludes its FTA with Colombia
What's the monetary value of a Colombian trade unionist's life? As it turns out, it depends on how many are killed in a given year since the potential fines the Colombian government will have to pay as penalty under its free trade agreement (FTA) with Canada whenever a union activist is killed is capped at $15 million.
>by Todd Gordon
>The Bullet (Socialist Project)
June 13, 2008 Liberals take a pass on immigration bill
Federal Liberals have traditionally held themselves up as friends of immigrants. But on June 9, when the House of Commons voted on the third and final reading of a bill containing sweeping changes to immigration law, most of them abstained.
>by Carlito Pablo
>Georgia Straight
June 13, 2008 Drop weapons
Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using "drop weapons" to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
>by David Murdock
>American News Project
Redeye Challenging impunity in Guatemala Sons and daughters of the disappeared are among those fighting to hold former paramilitaries and government officials accountable for the torture and death of thousands of Guatemalans. >>listen now
Redeye Reflecting on the Korean War The traditional view of the conflict in Korea is that it was an international police action against the communist takeover of a country. Historian John Price brings that picture up to date. >>listen now
Stop C-51! Do you like your greens and vitamins? The Canadian government, afraid of the public reaction once people find out what they are trying to pull, is currently fast-tracking a Bill which threatens to strip you of your rights to access a wide range of natural health products. Take action to protect your current right to use the foods, herbs, supplements, and therapies!
Free Marie Long time environmental and social justice activist Marie Mason of Cincinnati, Ohio was arrested on March 10 on charges related to two Earth Liberation Front actions that occurred in Michigan, in 1999, and 2000. Marie's case is one of the latest developments in what many have dubbed the "Green Scare," a recent wave of government repression aimed at disrupting and discrediting grassroots environmental activism and criminalizing dissent.
An Alberta woman, paralyzed after her neck was manipulated by a chiropractor, has launched the biggest-ever class action suit against chiropractic in Canada. >by Paul Benedetti and Wayne MacPhail >rabble news
There is a point in giving money to the homeless, as a choice that each of us makes who confront the homeless in our daily lives, and even for those who don't. >by Ms. Communicate >now what?
General Motors, the largest maker of vehicles in the world, announced last week the closing of its truck plant in Oshawa. Another 2,600 workers will join the over 350,000 workers who over the past five years have lost their high quality, high-paying manufacturing jobs. >by Paul Tulloch >everyone’s a critic
While the historical significance of yesterday’s apology cannot be overstated, the time for words is no more. The new day signaled by Prime Minister Harper’s gesture of good will shall now be measured by actions.
>Canadian Union of Public Employees
Two pieces of labour legislation passed by the Brad Wall government in Saskatchewan weakens workers’ rights and tilts the balance in favour of employers.
This is one of the key reasons the National Union of Public and General Workers is lodging of a formal complaint with the International Labour Organization against the new Saskatchewan laws – Bill 5, An Act respecting Essential Public Services and Bill 6, An Act to amend the Trade Union Act.
>National Union of Public and General Employees
In addition to regulating spiritual practices via this ban, access to sacred ceremonies is being treated as though it is optional, like a privilege or a program, rather than a constitutional and human right by Corrections Canada.
>Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
'It's a weird thing. I was more impressed with [the school survivors'] power to overcome than feeling sorry," said New York Islanders coach Ted Nolan after Wednesday's apology for residential schools. That rings true to me.
>by Rick Salutin>full column
Monday was the sixth day of the CAW blockade of GM Canada headquarters in Oshawa. The union does not plan a strike, and the blockade has been peaceful, but there is great anger in Oshawa, and Durham County, the fiefdom of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, member of parliament for the area adjoining Oshawa.
>by Duncan Cameron>full column
The despair on the faces of muscled, redundant GM workers last week as their truck plant prepared to close was a glimpse of a future without oil. It was a reminder, too, echoing Dorothea Lange's classic 1936 Migrant Mother portrait. Either that or Nick Nolte's arrest mugshot.
>by Heather Mallick>full column
In The Fruit Hunters, Adam Leith Gollner travels around the world searching for the most wondrous, delicious, and exotic fruits. His journey brings him face-to-face with the power of fruit — nuclear technology traded for mangoes, governments overthrown for bananas, cutting-edge genetically engineered strawberries, and more. He discovers why the selection of fruits available to us at grocery stores is so painfully limited and he meets a wild cast of people simply obsessed with fruit — eating it, growing it, breeding it, seeking it, worshipping it.
>by Elan Mastai>interview
It's really only in the last 20 years or so that China has opened its borders to Western tourists and even as thousands of people prepare to descend on Beijing this summer, most of China is still untouched by mass tourism — that may be changing. Stuart Woods gets the low down from Toronto food-writers and authors of Beyond the Great Wall Recipes and Travels in the Other China, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, on culinary traditions beyond the urbanized eastern third of China.
>by Stuart and Brendan Woods>radio book lounge
Peter Hallward's new book is the first comprehensive account of how the international community helped orchestrate the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti, who the actors were in Haiti and internationally, what its effects have been, and how the Lavalas movement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide has managed to weather the violence of this period. Damming the Flood is a must-read for the Canadian Left and social movements everywhere.
>by Stuart Neatby>history
