As Canada Day fast approaches I feel a sense of pride and sadness. I am a proud Canadian who loves her homeland and all that it has represented over the years, but those days are disappearing with nary a look back by most. As I think more and more about what Canada is, I come face to face with what it’s not. Canada is no longer a nation making its way in the world for its citizens or posterity. We are no longer the nation of peacekeepers. We are no longer in control of our destiny.

The Nation's Deathbed Canada Day DVD Giveaway!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAulvgNCNLE

On Canada Day, patroitic Canadians will be hitting the streets throughout Canada to raise awareness regarding the SPP and the determental effects it will have on our country's soveignerity.

One person can make a difference, many can affect change....

CanWest Global propaganda piece says all Canadians will be vaccinated (but there is NO LAW).

*snip* Gymnasiums would be used for mass school-based vaccination programs but experts say the harder to reach group will be the 18-to-30-year-olds. 

"Some of them are in school, a lot of them are not," MacDonald said. "They're very much living in the moment and don't necessarily see themselves as being at risk. We need some fast thinking about how to reach those people." 

She suggested booths could be set up outside bars for information and immunization. 

"You've got to be creative about this and really think out of the box."

In a brilliant and deeply flawed new book, John Ralson Saul joins Mel Hurtig in an attempt to tell Canadians the [ugly] present "truth about Canada".

Under the pretext of the war on terror and through initiatives such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), as well as other commitments, there has been an ongoing effort to further harmonize North American security priorities.  The militarization of the continent, along with U.S.-Canada integration is taking place in areas of law enforcement, border services and the armed forces.

Now middle-aged and with a family to support, government worker Gerardo Gonzalez has pursued a personal economic strategy familiar to countless Mexicans. Turning to credit cards to compensate for stagnating wages, Gonzalez has juggled multiple accounts, missed a couple payments, and even landed in the Credit Bureau. But the resident of the central Mexican city of Aguascalientes insisted he was not among frivolous people who use credit cards to party the night away or fly off to a beach resort on six-months, interest-free credit. The plastic money goes for expenses like cell phone bills, supplies for his cameras, computers for his children, and medical emergencies. "You never know when you need (credit cards)," Gonzalez observes.

History is a weapon, arm yourself. The history we were taught in school was laced with mind numbing brain dumbing down drivel.

Six years after the search warrant "raids" on B.C. legislature offices, the case around the BC Rail Scandal appears to be moving from pre-trial hearings to trial. But just at that key moment the Special Crown Prosecutor has entered a motion asking the judge presiding be replaced for the trial.

 

The article looks Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which is currently under debate in the House of Commons. The authors examine the disconnect between what citizens see as core Canadian values and the actual record of the government's conduct abroad by giving context to CCFTA.

'Adapting to a New World Order'

The International Economic Forum Of The Americas 15th Annual Conference in Montreal Canada June 8th through 11th, 2009.

Family farming, Desmarais reports, has remained a prominent form of cultivation, in rich and poor countries alike. She cites data from the U.S., where farm technology is most advanced. There, family-owned farms made up 85% of all units in 1990s, although a significant proportion of them are dependent on wage labour. There is growing evidence, she says, "that small farms are more 'efficient' than large corporate farms" and are more "sustainable." Indeed, " 're-peasantization' is going on as the absolute number of peasants grows." 

For a dozen years, since signing the Kyoto Protocol to fight global
warming, the federal government has struggled to craft a cap-and-
trade policy of its own.

But repeated Liberal and Conservative governments have retreated in
the face of entrenched opposition from energy and manufacturing
interests, and from provincial premiers who fear the economic
consequences.

Now Canada can only watch as the United States, moving from laggard
to leader in the fight against global warming, crafts a cap-and-trade
policy, one that Canada will have no choice but to emulate......

Add it all up, and the case for Canada's federal government simply
photocopying the U.S. program and submitting it to Parliament is
overwhelming.

Canada will join the fight against global warming whether its
politicians want it to or not. The Americans will leave us no choice

fyi-janet

The reason Free Traders and Free Marketeers rage against so-called "Protectionism" is because it regulates and contains their excesses and provides real justice for smaller and weaker economies.

30 May 2009

www.greenleft.org.au/2009/797/41023

Mass protests by indigenous communities continue to spread throughout Peru. This is despite a violent crackdown by police and military forces following President Alan Garcia’s declaration of a 60-day state of emergency in the Cusco, Ucayali, Loreto and Amazonas regions on May 9.

Since April 9, indigenous communities have shut down oil fields and gas pipelines, and blocked roads, rivers, airports and other installations. These actions are in protest at government decrees that open access to indigenous people’s lands to facilitate oil, mining, logging and agricultural companies.

Garcia decreed the laws under special powers awarded to him by Congress to bring Peruvian law into line with a free trade agreement (FTA) signed with the United States in December 2007.

One of the most controversial decrees (Legislative Decree 1090) removes some 45 million hectares, or roughly 60%, of Peru’s jungles from the country’s Forestry Heritage protection system.