More than half a century ago Paul Robeson, one of the greatest men who ever lived, was forbidden to enter Canada not by Ottawa but by Washington, which had taken away his passport. But he was still able to transfix a vast crowd of Vancouver’s mill hands and miners with a 17-minute telephone concert, culminating [...]
Poverty Important to Canadians
October 27, 2008 By
While our neo-con governments would have us believe that all Canadians feel as they do that poverty is but a moral failing it turns out that “The vast majority of Canadians want the federal and provincial governments to lead a war on poverty, including raising minimum wages and creating more low-cost child care” [survery by [...]
2008 Blog Action Day: Poverty
October 15, 2008 By
With last night’s election results revealing another NeoCon minority government, it seems fitting somehow that today is Blog Action Day ’08 A call to action for bloggers to raise awareness on issues of poverty. During the campaign Make Poverty History asked the leaders what they would do about poverty both home and abroad, not surprisingly [...]
Let them eat mud!
July 24, 2008 By
While most of us remember making mud pies as a childhood pastime, some mothers in Haiti have been serving them as a main course. Ironically, many of these women were once rice farmers themselves. But in the 1980s, U.S.-grown rice began pouring into Haiti. Thanks to federal subsidies, the imported rice was sold for less [...]
Todd Stelmach and Sandra Findley Remember those names
July 6, 2008 By
Many of you will remember the Count Me Out Campaign protesting the outsourcing of the Canadian census software to the American arms maker Lockheed Martin. Though many joined in the campaign it seems most, like me, were supportive right up to the point of threats of incarceration. Stelmach and Findley however are standing firm. Findley, [...]
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