Canada's 'Anti-Terrorism Bill' proposes a massive increase in the power of security services, writes Pete Dolack - and in the crosshairs are campaigners against a tar sands industry that's intent on releasing 240 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, and those fighting the pipelines needed to get the heavy crude to market. Who are the real 'extremists'?
… Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists' Pete Dolack | 5th … Photo: Mark Klotz via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Canada's 'Anti-Terrorism Bill' proposes a … to market. Who are the real 'extremists'? Canada's Harper régime has invented the new …
The latest country to be hooked under 'free trade' agreements is Colombia, writes Pete Dolack, sued for tens of billions of dollars by US and Canadian gold mining companies for valuing its national parks and the high-altitude Andean wetlands that provide 70% of the nation's water above the profits of foreign corporations. Free trade or clean water? You can't have both.
… 14th April 2016 News Colombia Mining Trade US Canada Water Conservation Corporations … government because of this under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. The … "energy and other" products imported to Canada to be C$280 million. The World Bank …
Boosters of 'free trade' agreements - like the Trans Pacific Partnership that's being signed today - like to make big promises, writes Pete Dolack: trillions of dollars of economic gains, billions of dollars of investment, millions of new jobs. But there's only one certainty, and it's one they never mention: the permanent redistribution of power and income from working people to capital.
… proved to be a lose-lose-lose proposition for Canada, Mexico and the United States: Almost 5 … TPP; Australia an extra 0.07% annually, and Canada a boost of 0.12% per year." If this is … 448,000 jobs to be lost in the US alone. Canada, Mexico, Japan and Australia would each …
Just how bad is the TPP? Incredibly, we don't know its full horror because even now, the agreement is a state secret, writes Pete Dolack. But the text will have to be released soon so that Congress and other parliaments can vote on it. And only then we will know the full scale of the corporate sellout it represents. The choice facing legislators is clear: democracy, or corporate dictatorship?
… | 8th October 2015 News Trade Finance USA Canada tpp-protest-cut.jpg Just how bad is the … have a peek. Parliamentarians in Canada and Australia have also not been …
Deep space missions have previously run on nuclear power, writes Karl Grossman - and have twice showered Earth with radioactive debris. But the ESA's Rosetta probe, about to reach its destination, is 100% solar-powered - showing that space can be nuclear-free.
… of miles across the Northwest Territories of Canada. The late Dr. John Gofman, professor of … with a global increase in lung cancer. Canada demanded compensation for the …
Thanks to New Zealand, the full text of the Trans Pacific Partnership has been made public. And as Pete Dolack writes, it's a disaster for health, environment, workers and democracy - one that will unfold over years and decades to come, as investors and corporations consolidate their power over elected governments and cement in the global rule of unaccountable capital.
… which has hurt working people and farmers in Canada, the US and Mexico. More than 300,000 … manufacturing alone are at risk from TPP . Canada will also be forced to open its dairy …
A leaked text from the 'Trade In Services Agreement' negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards, and force the privatisation of state-run enterprises, writes Pete Dolack. So it's not just TTIP, CETA and TPP we have to fight - TISA could be the biggest corporate power grab of them all.
… other countries negotiating are Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway, Mexico, New Zealand, … Trade and Investment Partnership and the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic …
OceanaGold is demanding $300 million in compensation from impoverished El Salvador after a mining permit was refused to safeguard a clean drinking water source that millions of people depend on, writes Pete Dolack. The sum does not even represent losses - but profits the company claims it would have made.
… Agreement, but the case was dismissed because Canada, where Pacific Rim had been based … will consider are separate rulings ordering Canada to reverse bans on PCBs and on the …
The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens, writes Pete Dolack. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.
… countries with stronger regulations, such as Canada under the North American Free Trade … in which a tribunal, in ordering that Canada reverse a ban against PCBs, a …
The Paris Agreement is a severely inadequate response to the climate crisis the world now faces, writes Pete Dolack, full of vague aspirations and devoid of hard, enforceable commitments. But the impending US withdrawal is still bad news for us all - including the Trump-supporting Koch brothers, set to gain billions from their Alberta tarsands holdings. Short-term profits are a poor exchange for a less livable world, even for those making the money.
… "Huge slabs of Arctic permafrost in northwest Canada are slumping and disintegrating, … a half-million square miles in northwest Canada found that this permafrost decay is … to 2005 levels. The European Union, Brazil, Canada, Japan, India and Australia have …
Donald Trump's scheme to rebuild US infrastructure could be among the world's greatest ever financial heists, writes Pete Dolack. He has chosen the most expensive, anti-democratic way to do the job, through the mass privatization of priceless public assets - sticking users and taxpayers for exorbitant charges for decades to come, while banks and speculators reap the profits.
… workers. Corporations plunder, people pay in CanadaCanada's version of public-private …
Seeds are the gift of nature and past generations to us, and our gift to the future. Karl Grossman reviews 'Seedtime' - and finds that we must make that gift wholesome and fruitful - not a Pandora's box of genetically modified horrors.
… millions of acres, "concentrated in the US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and China, planted …
Pollution caused by burning fossil fuels are already causing the premature deaths of 200,000 people a year - in the US alone, writes Pete Dolack. Add up the figures worldwide and it comes to many millions. And that's before we even count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen anti-pollution regulation and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production.
… global average on a per capita basis, as does Canada, which, due to its heavy reliance on …
If there's one good thing about Trump, it's that he has put an end to the TPP and TTIP trade deals, right? Don't celebrate yet, writes Pete Dolack. There's another 'trade deal' waiting in the wings, TISA, and negotiators have been busy expanding its remit to include huge parts of TPP and TTIP, while giving free rein to the global behemoths of internet and finance to expand their monopolies.
… along with, among others, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, …
Sunday's SpaceX crash sends a powerful warning of the dangers of nuclear power on spacecraft, writes Karl Grossman. But will NASA listen? Despite the success of solar-powered missions, it's planning to use plutonium to power future missions and a new report asserts a continuing need for the technology - even as Russia ditches the idea.
… of miles across the Northwest Territories of Canada. Despite the study's rosy history of …