Recently added articles from CCPA Monitor:
Conservatives' no-fly list violates basic rights, rule of law
Jul 01, 2008; Campbell, Bruce ... A DENIAL OF FUNDAMENTAL JUSTICE: Since September 11, 2001, both Liberal and Conservative governments have introduced a vast array of measures that they claim are needed to combat terrorism. Some are enacted through laws such as the Public Safety Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act. Many ...
Understanding economics
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... EDITORIAL: Understanding economics Economies is too important to be left to the economists. This is why Jim Stanford, an economist with the Canadian Auto Workers and a CCPA Research Associate, has written Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism. It's ...
Worth Quoting
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Alien vs. Predator "Astronomers are planning to broadcast a 30-second junk-food commercial to planets orbiting a star 4,2 light-years away. They accepted the ad from Doritos, makers of tortilla chips and dips, and will broadcast it to the distant Ursa Major constellation. "The ...
Scrubbed reactor plans may cost AECL millions
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. faces a penalty of up to $150 million for killing the problem-plagued nuclear reactor project designed to supply medical isotopes to a private sector partner, says a recently released government memo. In internal documents stamped "secret" but obtained by the ...
INDEX: Nuclear weapons
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... * There are now over 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world, deployed on land, sea, and un the air. They pose a constant threat of nuclear war and radioactive contamination. Nine countries have nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, France, China, Britain, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North ...
With élites united and majority split, inequality worsens
Jul 01, 2008; Finn, Ed ... DIVIDE AND FAIL UNITE AND WIN: The world's wealth and resources are being more inequitably distributed than ever before. IBM's latest Global CEO Study disclosed that the combined income of the 1,130 top executives surveyed in 2007 was $2.224 trillion-an amount higher than the GDP of the ...
Cyclone and quake disasters shake both countries' rulers
Jul 01, 2008; Klein, Naomi ... REGIME QUAKES IN BURMA AND CHINA: When news arrived of the catastrophic earthquake in Sichuan in May, my mind turned to Zheng Sun Man, an up-and-coming security executive I met on a recent trip to China. Zheng heads Aebell Electrical Technology, a Guangzhou-based company that makes ...
Nuclear bomb blueprints feared for sale
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Nuclear bomb blueprints and manuals on how to manufacture weapons-grade uranium for warheads are feared to be circulating on the international black market, according to investigators tracking the world's most infamous nuclear smuggling racket. Alarm about the sale of nuclear know-how ...
Patriotism, 2008
Jul 01, 2008; Trillin, Calvin ... I backed the war in Nam okay, Though I used pull to stay away. A patriot? But can't you tell? I wear a flag in my lapel. My company's now based offshore; We don't pay taxes any more. A patriot? But can't you tell? I wear a flag ...
Despite recent nuclear proliferation, optimism is rising
Jul 01, 2008; Worth, Jess ... HOW TO BAN NUKES AND SAVE THE PLANET: "When the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, I was 14. Now I'm 77-a lucky number in Japan." It's Easter Monday and I'm listening to Yushio Sato's story in the cold drizzle outside Britain's Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment. "My mother ...
Travel
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... In America there are two classes of travel: first class, and with children. -Robert Benchley. They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind. -G.K. Chesterton. At my age, travel broadens the behind. -Stephen Fry. Thanks to the ...
Giving blood helps those in need, and builds community
Jul 01, 2008; Black, Errol ... THE GIFT OF LIFE: A few months ago, I attended a Canadian Blood Services Awards Presentation honouring 50th, 75th, 100th, and 150th level blood donors. At this year's event I received a certificate for achieving the 100 donation level. Prior to the event, donors were asked to ...
Stanford's splendid book makes economics accessible to all
Jul 01, 2008; Watkins, Mel ... ECONOMICS FOR EVERYONE: Stanford's splendid book makes economics accessible to all Economies for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism, by Jim Stanford, CCPA and Fernwood Publishing, 350 pages, paperback, $24.95. It would surprise most economists-it certainly surprised ...
Here's a dozen top things to remember about economics
Jul 01, 2008; Stanford, Jim ... UNDERSTANDING CAPITALISM: When you read my book-Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism-you'll learn a lot about economics-from a critical, grassroots perspective. There are a few crucial lessons from the book that I hope you will keep in mind. These key ...
Writers
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... It's not because I dislike writers that I avoid their company. It's because I never know what to say to them after I've praised their last publication. -Lord Byron. The compulsion to write was born in me. For those sated readers of my work who wish ardently that I would stop, the ...
Religious fundamentalism fuels Harper's extremist zeal
Jul 01, 2008; Dobbin, Murray ... GOD'S WRATH AND THE TORIES: With the country well into its third year of minority government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, there has been very little commentary on what may be the most important driver of his policies. No other prime minister in our history has so strained ...
First Nation sues Alberta gov't over tar sands pollution
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation (CPDFN) has filed legal action against the Alberta government alleging a breach of its constitutional duty to consult with the First Nation on MEC Energy Corporation's planned Christina Lake Regional Project, Phase 3. This tar sands project is ...
MEMOS FROM OUR MEMBERS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Religious fanatics The Editor: Re your column in the May issue ("Right-wing fanatics forge strong ties with Harper government"), for many readers the gut reaction might be to remove religion entirely from the public sphere: it's too dangerous to be part of public ...
Corrections
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Helke Ferrie regrets the following errors in her article on vaccines and antibiotics published in our May issue, which she says were probably caused by "cut-and-paste efforts" to make the text fit a required word count: MMR vaccine does not include protection against chicken pox and ...
Parallels between Afghanistan and Vietnam wars disturbing
Jul 01, 2008; Byers, Michael ... CANADA'S QUAGMIRE: In the few days before this article was written in early June, another Canadian soldier-Captain Richard (Steve) Leary-was shot and killed in a gun battle with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. This happened just after four other Canadian soldiers were wounded, one ...