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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Rebuttal to Byfield's Inciting Destruction of Confederation |
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:49 am
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| "Now I ask you. What does it mean to be a Canadian?" To be able to look around this great place, and have it stir a reverence within oneself that transcends both one's selfish fixations and the petty events of the day. Belligerent patriotism degrades it, definition perverts it (Mulroney vs... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Only Truth in this Society |
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:54 am
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| Is this the same guy?:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.2river.org/2RView/3_2/bios/betts.html">http://www.2river.org/2RView/3_2/bios/betts.html</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.poetics.ca/poetics05/05betts.html">http://www.poetics.ca/poetics05/05betts.ht... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Monsanto challenges God's patent's |
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:51 am
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| Thanks for posting this, it's the exact info requested. <p> Now, for useful activism on this, especially in the current Canadian climate, the substance of the GM/non-GM debate needs to be sidelined, because it is secondary. Not to mention informed public concern is usually over environment, in... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Monsanto challenges God's patent's |
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:23 pm
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| OK, so here's an idea: Somebody on the inside, please--exactly who in the Canadian government is Monsanto's global terminator seed lackey? I don't mean what department, I mean *WHO*? The first thing you think when you hear "the Canadian government" is going around selling this to other cou... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Frank McKenna prefers Americans work over Canadians. |
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:12 am
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| "I'm sorry but neither country owes the other anything. I'm sure that more Canadians would believe that than Americans, but honestly Americans owe us nothing, and we owe Americans nothing in return."<br /> <br /> Based on the article referred to in<br /> <br /> <... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Frank McKenna prefers Americans work over Canadians. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:36 am
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Sent the embassy an email. Will post the response here if I get one.
McKenna should not be villified for this, he did a pretty good job here. Reducing perceived or actual enmity at the border is a crucial function of his position. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: from the Jan/Feb issue of Foreign Affairs, journal of the Co |
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:46 pm
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| Some clippings/questions: "Although both Mexico and Canada attracted considerable new U.S. investment (since NAFTA gave them privileged access to the U.S. market), the percentage of U.S.-owned companies in each country did not increase." In The Vanishing Country, Mel Hurtig claims the exac... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: "Pro-Canadian" Means Much More Than "Anti |
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:31 pm
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What would you make of this?<br />
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<a href="http://www.davidgratzer.com/report1/1.html">http://www.davidgratzer.com/report1/1.html</a> |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: "Pro-Canadian" Means Much More Than "Anti |
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:23 pm
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| A ranking of 30 implies there are 29 other examples to learn from. Does Canada actively collaborate with any of these other nations to share health care strategies, especially the ones with similar public systems? |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: U.S. Integration Promoted at Maclean's |
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:42 pm
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| Read some of the less reasonable anti-american stuff posted on this site sometime. And then go read what they're writing about "soviet canuckistan" in some of the right-wing blogs coming from both sides of the border. And no, I'm not generalizing about *all* the posts on this site (in fact... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: U.S. Integration Promoted at Maclean's |
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:08 pm
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| In case anyone has missed this thus far (not sure where it is linked on Vive):<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.canadians.org/documents/TF_ReportFeb05.pdf">http://www.canadians.org/documents/TF_ReportFeb05.pdf</a><br /> <br /> Of particular concern:<br /> &l... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: U.S. Integration Promoted at Maclean's |
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:55 pm
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| Rule of law between our nations is a good idea, but there's a reason the EU has it and we don't. And after "deep integration", I bet we still won't. "When the wagons circle, do Canadians want to be on the outside looking in or the other way around? To ask the question is to answer it.... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: 'Smart regulations' too American, critics say |
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:39 pm
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| "Why anyone would hold America up as an regulatory example for copying is beyond me, as they have about the worst record for enacting regulations that are geared towards protecting their citizens over profiteering." The U.S. has had some legislation (state/environmental, for instance) that... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Jack Layton on Paul Martin's plan for deep integration |
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:53 pm
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| In the U.S. George W. was voted in (again) in one of the higher voter turnouts in recent history. A counter to the robo-candidate tactic is what is needed. Martin and crew have a predetermined, well-rehearsed answer to just about every criticism, no doubt based on a carefully researched and restrict... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Jack Layton on Paul Martin's plan for deep integration |
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:05 am
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| I'm replying to my last post, I forgot to log in. <br /> <br /> For perspective, see "The Robo-Candidate" by Ralph Nader: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1206-02.htm">http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1206-02.htm</a><br /> <br /> Looks lik... |
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