Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO describes describes the NATO meeting occurring during heightened tensions with Syria. With the war machine heating up, he investigates the position of the new government in France, the composition of the UN team, and whether the UN is a problem or a solution.
Zafar Bangash reveals the foreign support for Syria's rebels. "The Saudis have opened their chequebooks."
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"Solving the problem of bullying," said Jody Carr, New Brunswick Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, "requires a multi-faceted solution where everyone works together." Carr was announcing legislative and policy changes to deal with bullying in the school system.
True enough, but what about the rest of the world? While talking about bullying in schools is all the rage these days — stories of its victims have made news headlines recently — the problem of bullying doesn't stop once school is out and kids graduate.
What happens to bullies after graduation? Where do they go?
If this were 1968 all over again, Justin Trudeau would have an excellent chance of carrying off the Liberal leadership, as his father did in '68.
What can we do with wastes from our industrial pursuits — from fossil fuel extraction, agriculture, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing? We've been spewing lots of it into the air, but that isn't a good plan. Carbon dioxide, ozone, mercury, and other emissions harm human health and contribute to global warming and holes in the ozone layer. We've dumped it into the oceans. But that compromises marine life that billions of people rely on for food.
by Jody Dallaire, Dieppe Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunity between Women and Men
For six years, the Moncton Chapter of the YWCA began presenting Women of Distinction Awards to women who have distinguished themselves in one of the following six fields: 1) community building and volunteerism; 2) health and active living; 3) arts, culture and design; 4) business and professions; 5) education, training and development; and 6) non profit and public service.
Two other awards are presented, one to a young woman, between the ages 18 to 25, and the other is an honorary recognition award for significant achievement of national importance.
by David Suzuki
Canada's environmental laws are under attack by both the federal and Ontario governments. In Ottawa, the government introduced Bill C-38 to implement far-reaching measures announced in its budget. Ontario's government introduced a similar omnibus bill with profound implications for the environment.
by David Suzuki
Canada's environmental laws are under attack by both the federal and Ontario governments. In Ottawa, the government introduced Bill C-38 to implement far-reaching measures announced in its budget. Ontario's government introduced a similar omnibus bill with profound implications for the environment.
The 420-page Bill C-38 will gut a raft of federal laws passed over the years to ensure that our air, water, and most vulnerable wildlife populations are protected. Casualties include the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, Fisheries Act, Species at Risk Act, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, and the Kyoto Implementation Act.
by Jody Dallaire, Dieppe Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunity between Women and Men
This Thursday, June 21 is National Aboriginal Day. June 21 is also the summer solstice, part of the reason the date was chosen for National Aboriginal Day. It is interesting to note that Wabanaki means the first ones to see the light in the morning — dawn breaking.
First Nations in the Maritime Provinces assert that they did not surrender their lands to the Crown. I acknowledge the Wabanaki Confederacy — the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy peoples — on whose ancestral land most of us reside.
Most of us know little about our Wabanaki neighbours. Next week or this summer, some of us may have occasion to learn more if we participate in special aboriginal events or powwows. These events are held throughout the province every summer.
by Geoffrey Stevens
The capital may have been astonished, but the people who know Bob Rae well were not surprised by his decision not to seek the permanent leadership of the Liberal party. They knew he was wrestling with a political dilemma — the result of lousy positioning and unhappy timing.
They knew he still dreamed of becoming prime minister, but he could not see how to get to 24 Sussex from the starting point of the leadership of the third party, a party on the skids, a party that had been rejected by progressive voters in favour of the NDP, a Liberal party in urgent need of long-term retooling.
In a column four weeks ago, I discussed some of the arguments against a Rae candidacy, suggesting common sense and political sense might well cause him to stay out of the race.
by Geoffrey Stevens
Question:
Can Stephen Harper win the next federal election?
Answer:
Yes. Absolutely.
He will win as long as the economy — that's jobs, employment security, pensions, health insurance, the whole ball of wax — remains the pre-eminent bundle of issues, or fears, in the minds of Canadian voters. And as long as Harper can maintain his message that, thanks to sound Harper policies, Canada is performing outperforming every other significant country in the whole wide world, including the United States — and that, without Harper's wise leadership, Canada would be a basket case, like Greece.
If he can continue to sell that message — and we know from recent history that the Conservatives are prepared to spend bottomless amounts of their supporters' and taxpayers' money to sell their messages — the rest won't matter.
