The Government issued a press release yesterday announcing that a phalanx of Conservative politicians would be fanning out over the country to tout the benefits of the proposed Canada-European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement.
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Dave Lundy, OPSEU’s regional vice-president, looks at the negative effects of free trade on Smith Falls, Ontario.
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Honduran journalist visits Montreal, reaffirms strength of resistance movements

MONTREAL—In June 2009, Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped …

 HM PM Harper has announced free trade talks with the Kingdom of Thailand and Japan. These are more huge opportunities for Canada!

Canada and Japan have agreed to enter free-trade talks. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Japanese counterpa…

HM PM Harper and the Tories have aggressively pursued free trade. I am very much in favour of free trade. Even Andrew Coyne, hardly a friend of the Tory government is almost complimentary. I agree with Coyne, that unilaterally dropping tariffs is a gre…

Greece on the breadline: cashless currency takes offA determination to ‘move beyond anger to creativity’ is driving a strong barter economy in some placesby Jon HenleyAs originally posted: The GuardianMarch 16, 2012In recent weeks, Theodoros Mavridis …

Canadians pay a lot more for many basic commodities because of marketing boards. As a move to decrease poverty and give kids more access to healthy foods. We need to get rid of the marketing boards. Let the free market work to reduce prices and povert…

HM Canadian Government is again expanding our trade, this time with Japan. Expanding markets outside of the US is a good idea. Pacific trade will bring Canada a lot of jobs. Let’s hope this comes to fruition

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected …

The Prime Minister’s trip to China last week sparked a flurry of media coverage regarding prospects for “closer” economic ties between Canada and China. Some even speculated that another free trade agreement is in the works (as soon as the Harper gover…

The Prime Minister’s trip to China last week sparked a flurry of media coverage regarding prospects for “closer” economic ties between Canada and China.  Some even speculated that another free trade agreement is in the works (as soon as the Harper government inks its planned deals, of course, with the EU, India, Korea, and the [...]

Last week (Feb. 2nd) I drove up to London, Ontario, to shoot some film footage of the locked-out workers picketing outside the Electro-Motive Diesel plant for a documentary I am working on. The company, the only one to make locomotives in Canada, is owned by Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest equipment manufacturer. They’d locked out [...]

Defenceless: Selling Our Sovereignty  Glavin’s been writing a series of articles on our retreat from even gesturing in the direction of national security interests in our trade and foreign investment dealings. We are sacrificing both ou…

The Trade Justice Network has in it’s possession newly leaked documents detailing Canada’s initial servicesand investment offers to the EU in the nearly completed free tradenegotiations. The documents, which were previously secret but leake…

Canada isn’t the only country the EU has been negotiating a comprehensive trade and investment pact with, parallel talks have been ongoing with India on a remarkably similar deal. So I’ve found it interesting to look in on those discussions…

The Shadow SuperpowerForget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world’s fastest growing economy — and its future. by Robert NeuwirthAs originally posted: Foreign PolicyOctober 28, 2011With only a mobile phone and a promise of money fro…

Little by little through trade and security deals such as CETA and Beyond Borders we are losing the ability to make our own decisions regarding the governance of our country. Yet despite the profound effect these and other such agreements have on our l…

In August of last year while on a tour of South America, most notable for his bathroom misadventures, Harper signed a free trade agreement with the leaders of the Honduran coup. In justifying his actions Harper stated that the agreement would lead to a…

A Few Thoughts on Kopimism as a Religionby Nicholas MilesAs originally posted on: Then Piratska ArgusJanuary 4, 2012The Missionary Church of Kopimism has now been officially ratified as a religion in Sweden. I have in the past heard it accused of bein…

US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Lawby “Enigmax”As originally posted on: TorrentFreakJanuary 5, 2012In a leaked letter sent to Spain’s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment …