Archive - Jan 2006

13 sentenced from Kanehsatake raid

Toronto clinic violates Canada Health Act: Coalition

Job growth, pay shrinkage last year in Canada

February Books

Besner, Henderson and Bryce review new work by Warner, Prince, Redhill, and Dey.

Evo Morales, president-elect of Bolivia, inaugurated.

Report recommends burying nuclear waste in Northern Ontario

Is it Climate Change Yet? Canada's weird weather gets weirder

Criticism, calls for resolve as Canada relieves US in Afghanistan

Doing Jack for Haiti

Derrick O'Keefe asks what it would take to compel NDP leader Jack Layton to bring up Canada's involvement in Haiti.

Another World Is Necessary: The World Social Forum decentralized

Bean Waiting

In the dirt floor, open fire kitchens of Guatemala, Moira Peters learns the fine art of cooking black beans.

In Guatemala black beans are prepared slowly, simply and saltily

The Battle of our Beers

Elizabeth Falcon discovers that 90% of the beers sold in Canada are owned by two foreign multinational corporations.

Multinationals crush craft ales in Canada's suds industry

Ce qui rend un scandale scandaleux

Dru Oja Jay s'interroge sur le silence des médias canadiens sur la question haïtienne alors que ceux-ci se sont acharnés sur l'affaire des voyages de Pierre Pettigrew.

Les médias et l'appartement de Pierre Pettigrew, rue Aristide Bruant

The Politics of Brutality in Haiti

In Port-au-Prince, Aaron Lakoff reflects on Canada's role in Haiti's ongoing human rights disaster

Canada, the UN and "collateral damage"

Your Local Farmers Marketing

Dru Oja Jay investigates how small farmers are cutting out the 'middle man' and doing the marketing themselves.

Ontario organic farmers form cooperative to offset razor-thin margins

Where The Mountains Are Still Growing

Hillary Lindsay investigates the human cost of a 'business as usual' approach to climate change in Northeastern India.

Will mega dams in Manipur, India 'solve' climate change?

Who Owns The Climate?

Indigenous peoples demand a voice in climate change negotiations that are disproportionately impacting them. Hillary Lindsay listens in.

Indigenous leaders demand a voice in climate change negotiations

Please Remember Music

Thousands sing for revolution at the School of The Americas Protest in Fort Benning, Georgia. Carole Ferrari joins the chorus.

Song plays a central role at the School of the Americas Protest

"The Other" Way

The Zapatistas' New Direction