12/05/08 “The Guardian” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19913.htm

We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression (more…)

When lawmakers were busy sketching out the details of the North American Free Trade agreement in 1988, Buzz Hargrove, then assistant to Canadian Auto Workers president Bob White, said the union would “fight like hell” against lower U.S. wages and benefits that could creep into Canada. (more…)

Last December, I got a taste of what golfers are likely to experience, if not quite so starkly, in the years ahead. I played a course in Georgia whose fairways, due to strict drought restrictions across the northern third of the state, hadn’t been watered in months. (more…)

The defendants in a lawsuit brought by CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. over a Vancouver Sun parody got support this week from a magazine editor who knows much about satire and getting sued. (more…)

A who’s who of major U.S. and Canadian environmental organizations is urging the U.S. Senate to keep in place a rule banning the United States government from buying fuel from Alberta’s tar sands on the grounds that it is too environmentally tainted. (more…)

Media coverage of Israel’s 60th birthday has gone on for more than a week. Almost all of it was celebratory, though there were sympathetic references to the Palestinian nakba, or catastrophe, that weren’t often included in coverage of Israel’s 50th or 40th. Even The National Post, among dozens of articles, had one by Jeet Heer on the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians, which a Post editorial rebuked the same day. (more…)

Canada’s equalization system isn’t broken. What’s broken is our national will. We have sleepwalked into an era of what constitutional expert Eugene Forsey once called “province-worship.” (more…)

Life in the remote community of Shamattawa is so bleak, kids will try to kill themselves because if they’re unsuccessful they’ll get out, even if only briefly, health care workers from the troubled First Nation say. (more…)