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ECONOMY-CANADA: ‘War’ On Terror Threatens Fight Against Poverty
Anti-poverty activists say they face the added burden of their issue being sidelined - even suppressed - by last month's terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent preoccupation with security and retaliation.TRADE-LABOUR: Canadians Contemplate Ethical Consumption
Canadian companies, long spared the consumer activism seen in other parts of the world, pay scant attention to the rights of workers in their suppliers' factories, particularly those in developing countries.RIGHTS-CANADA: Supreme Court Bans Extradition to Countries with Death Penalty
Trinidad's efforts to extradite one of its nationals from Canada and have him tried for murder may have been stopped in its tracks by this country's top justices on Thursday.POPULATION-CANADA: Opposition to Court Rulings on Deportations
Until recently under Canadian law immigrants considered a danger to the public were ordered to leave this country without an explanation.ENVIRONMENT: Native North Americans Divided Over Oil Drilling Plan for Arctic Refuge
Aboriginal peoples in the far north of North America are expressing strong differences over the proposed drilling for oil and gas in the 7.6-million hectare Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the US state of Alaska.RIGHTS: Liberation Struggle Ruling Keeps Aboriginal Activist Out of Canadian Jail
Canadian aboriginal activist and parole violator James Pitawanakwat is cooling his heels across the border in the US state of Oregon living with his family and going regularly to church while the government here and the US Justice Department try to figure out how to get him back to Canada.POLITICS-CANADA: Indigenous Vote Instrumental in Liberal Party Election Win
Canada's indigenous minority may have played an important part in helping the ruling Liberal party return to power in Ottawa with an increased majority of seats in the House of Commons in the Nov. 27 national election.LABOUR-CANADA: Rapid Expansion of Temp Industry Reshapes Employment Norms
Don't call Joan a "temp". It is a term that is used contemptuously in some workplaces. For six years, Joan (not her real name) has been "on contract" - her preferred term - for jobs that last up to six months and generally involve project management for information technology or, on occasion, customer service.RIGHTS: Declaration on War-Affected Children Criticised as Weak
Delegates to the weeklong International Conference on War-Affected Children in Winnipeg, Canada say the declaration, which had been hoped would help protect the world's youth caught in situations of strife, is vague./ARTS & ENTERTAIMENT/BOOKS-CANADA: Imagine There is Democracy
"Imagine Democracy", the title of Judy Rebick's new book, reminds one of the 1960s and John Lennon's "Imagine", a wistful song about a better world.RIGHTS: World Governments Move to Stifle Protest, Says Activist
Governments around the world are moving more aggressively to ôpre-empt protestö, a trend that has been highlig hted by recent episodes of harassment of free trade and globalisation protesters, sa ys activist Amit Srivastava.ENVIRONMENT: Calgary Police Tighten Security for Global Oil Summit
Police are indulging in another example of "overkill" in their efforts to guard the meeting of the Jun. 11 to 15 World Petroleum Congress in downtown Calgary, says Jim Butler, a University of Calgary professor, who is writing a book on civil disobedience.POLITICS: Is OAS Mission to Peru a Waste of Time?
Can Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy calm the troubled waters of Peruvian politics after other efforts have failed?POLITICS: Is OAS Mission to Peru a Waste of Time?
Can Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy calm the troubled waters of Peruvian politics after other efforts have failed?/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-CANADA: Michael Ondaatje Serves Up Another Thoughtful Novel
Meeting the Sri-Lanka born and Canada- based author Michael Ondaatje as I once did decades ago while taking one of his English courses at York University in Toronto, I encountered a quiet and distant instructor who also has an obsession for detail and research in his fiction.EDUCATION-CANADA: Schools Embrace Big Business To Raise Money
What is it about a Canadian public high school in the Scarborough section here that draws education officials from such ironhanded countries as Singapore, China and Russia to come and rave that this is what they want to be?LABOUR-CANADA: Harsh Working Conditions Suck the Glamour Out of Internet Jobs
Those dream jobs on the Internet may appear glamorous to those on the outside, but the long hours and low pay have many e-commerce workers wondering if things weren't better on the old factory floor./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-CANADA: Designer slums in the global village
The images are common enough on television screens around the world: IBM, for instance, depicts Sicilian grandmothers buying and selling over the Internet and tribal people in the remotest rainforests tapping away on their laptop computers./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ BOOKS-CANADA: Novelist Recalls Newfoundland’s Turbulent History
More than half a century ago, the people of Newfoundland narrowly and reluctantly joined the Canadian confederation.TRADE-BOOK/REVIEW: Citizen’s Guide to the WTO
The World Trade Organization (WTO), which meets in Seattle Tuesday for its third ministerial conference, is having an increasing impact on the lives of ordinary people everywhere.TRADE: Heavy Going at FTAA Negotiations
Trade ministers from 34 countries in the Americas failed last week to negotiate a framework agreement to start work on hammering out details for a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), scheduled to be set up by 2005.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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