Editorials

Unlike other shreddings of publicly-owned assets in B.C., the "sale" of BC Rail to Texas-headquartered CN Rail has generated thousands of pages of record through pre-trial disclosures of material.  Does that material contain the basis for RCMP investigation of major government actors in the sale to determine their innocence or to allege wrongdoing and to have charges laid?

   Obama must be recast as the Hollywood hero

It is as a result of Freedom of Information Act requests and other previous legal proceedings that thousands of documents have already been forced into the public eye, shedding some light into the secretive nature of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America agenda.  The SPP appears to be dead in name only as many of its key priorities continue under the North American Leaders Summit.  If a lawsuit brought forth by a U.S. public interest firm is successful, it would further expose the SPP and show how some groups relate inside the whole trilateral process.

UPDATE:

Many will recall the intense opposition voiced against Bill C-51 which proposed sweeping changes to the Food and Drugs Act. There was also much contention surrounding Bill C-52, the Consumer Products Safety Act. Both Bills would have expanded the powers of Health Canada in areas of seizure and detention. After the last federal election in October 2008, the Harper government essentially reintroduced Bill C-52 as Bill C-6.

The CBC reports that, “A proposed BC law would allow municipal officials (in Whistler, Vancouver and Richmond) to enter homes (with just 24 hours notice) to seize unauthorized and possibly anti-Olympic signs on short notice (says) the BC Civil Liberties Association.”

Bill 13, the Miscellaneous Statues Amendment Act, introduced on October 8 to amend the Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act, means so-called ‘violators’ could be fined up to $10,000 a day and jailed up to six months.

The law would allow these three host municipalities to remove unauthorized signs during the period of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, February 1 to March 31.

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from February 12-28.  It will be the largest security operation in Canadian history.  Military planners will undoubtedly use it as a template for securing future high profile events.  Canadian security officials continue to work closely with their American counterparts in preparation for the test that the Games will pose to the security of its shared border. 

The Canadian military plans to hire a Colorado woman to teach some of its soldiers to speak French _ one of Canada's official languages.

In 2005, Vive the Canada published one of my articles entitled: “Big Brother Gets Under Your Skin.” In that article archived on this site I described microchipping technology in 1997 when the ‘Digital Angel’ was developed by Verichip Corp. Since that time many animals and groups of people have been successfully implanted with microchips.

After long investigation and years of hearings toward trial of the three accused men involved in the corrupt sale of BC Rail, perhaps the major wrongdoers are being by-passed.  The RCMP is asked to look again.

 The revelation that the recently resigned Bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Raymond Lahey, is an “alleged” node and purveyor of “kiddie porn” should, if nothing else, finally shock all those slavish adherents of the Roman Catholic Church into the reality of the human experience.

David Emerson's advice to Canadians about building "Canadian" technologies for world markets sounds very like one more argument for selling out the country.

The 33rd Annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers was held in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada on September 14-15 and was co-chaired by host Premier Shawn Graham and Maine Governor John Baldacci.  Throughout the years, the governors and premiers have forged a partnership and expanded economic ties, including cooperation on energy and environmental issues.

 To date they get failing grades on all counts.

Paging through press reports it is less than comforting to hear the chorus of Western leaders indulge in their asinine game of brinksmanship with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.

On the eighth anniversary of the United States declaring a global "war on terror" this September, America's continental neighbors - Mexico and Canada - have had enough.

When President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, 2001, the nation - and much of the world - was still in disbelief that Islamic terrorists had successfully carried out the greatest attack on U.S. soil since Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor.

Bill Moyers asks the right question. David Frum gives the wrong answer.