tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110996532014-07-19T03:55:18.335-04:00Politics, commentary and news from a left wing Canadian feminist --- what news you get can depend on where you are--- I will be writing this from a different viewpoint than the main stream media. The largest portion of it will be Canadian but I will also be dealing with international news and issues. My aim is to reach others who are progressive --- wherever they are.Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-65657194799752647042007-02-25T10:06:00.000-05:002007-02-25T10:19:40.854-05:00

Oil fish is recognized as being barely fit for human consumption. Fifty percent of those who eat it diarrhea. It is commonly mislabelled as other types of fish (which are consumed regularly such as cod). It's banned in Italy and Japan.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is not banning it in Canada...since it only makes the fifty percent of us with delicate stomachs' sick.Canadians fall ill after

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I've mentioned the crack pipe program in Ottawa previously. It is now coming up for review in Ottawa during in the city budget. If you live If you live in Ottawa you should consider coming to a protest being organized by the AIDS committee of Ottawa to make it clear the program is continued. Not in Otttawa. Can't make it to the protest? Spread the word about what the program is, and why it should

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The contrasts between what public events interest Stephen Harper and which don't are interesting. More important, for the public, they are informative on what is considered important by the current government.Harper didn't turn up when Canada was hosting a international conference on AIDS. I wrote a short piece at the time about Harper's Latest Lame Excuse For Not Attending The International AIDS

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Some words seem to move between languages. Others don't. The use of Citroen in reference to a car really surprised me Mr Lawson talks about PSA Peugeot Citroen's "well positioned.... mix and technology perspective".Citroen is fairly close to how you spell lemon in French. In fact I wasn't sure if it was exactly the same or not. According to my Petit Robert it's close but not the same. And none

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Heather Mallick as cbc.ca has a interesting piece asking why do we treat different addictions differently. She goes on to explore the idea with reference to the Pickton trial. It took years before anyone in power (like the police) starting looking into all the prostitutes that were going missing. If we took the lives of prostitute as seriously as the lives of others, this case would have gone to

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The environment is in the news a lot these days. Most of the work needs to be done through government, as it doesn't involved individual actions. However, the fact that we also need to change our lifestyles is clear. I find though that most suggestions are generalized. They don't give me all that good an idea on what I'm doing right (in terms of my "carbon footprint" discussed in this article)

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The first time I really wrote about anything that was identifiably personal was after the Supreme Court decision on private insurance in Quebec for medical services. I did this because of how important I felt the issue was and because I thought my experience had something to say in the debate that ensued.I don't make a practice of talking about my "real life" on the blog. I still have no

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The Canadian Medical Association has a President Elect who not only believes in increasing private health care---but who owns has private clinic and advocates on behalf of private health care!Private health-care advocate wins CMA presidencyLast Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 | 12:02 PMCBC NewsDr. Brian Day a Vancouver surgeon who supports expanding private health care has been affirmed as

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I have found think tanks interesting for a long time, although it is only in the last couple of years that I started accessing them regularly online. Lately I've been collecting the think thank names and addresses that I'm coming across in newspaper articles (and elsewhere). Now I don't agree politically with all of these think tanks. In fact I disagree strongly with some of them. If you want to

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Harper's latest excuse for not being at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto would be amusing if the issue wasn't so important. Apparently he is not at the conference because...his trip to Northern Canada was planned months ago...Come on...The conference was scheduled way earlier than a few months ago. I would say that Harper needs to get his priorities straight...But I he is showing us

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It started slowly. Sometime in 2005 I noticed that at the end of some CBC online articles the tag would be with files from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I can't remember exactly when...except that it was definitely appearing after the Tsunami (but could have been appearing before). The latest example of the CBC using other news sources is more disturbing. See here for a example at the

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Since I last wrote there has been more information about the US Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay. The best of the news was what became available on the first day I think. Since then it appears (based on reading of the news) that the decision of the court isn't as complete as those who want Guantanamo Bay closed down hoped (although it is still real progress). In the news I found the

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This just in from CBC news...U.S. Supreme Court quashes 'illegal' Guantanamo trialsLast Updated Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:30:20 EDTMilitary trials arranged by the Bush administration for detainees at Guantanamo Bay are illegal, the United States Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The court found that the trials — known as military commissions — for people detained on suspicion of terrorist activity abroad do

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A recent comment by the executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association on the gun registry was blatantly racist.Contentious gun registry spawns hate mailMay 16, 2006, CP...Larry Whitmore, executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, which opposes the long-gun registry, said urban Canada never understood - and probably never tried to understand - why the gun

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The Nation has a wonderful piece of political satire. I laughed all the way through reading it.The sad thing about it is is how close it cuts to the bone in recent Amercian politics. The explanation of the author, Richard Lingeman, as to where the idea for the piece came is included just prior to the full Gospel of Scooter. The explanation on it's own is quite amusing and also worth reading. And

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Crime gangs mixing crystal meth with other drugs: reportLast Updated Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:56:05 EDTThe Hells Angels and other organized crime groups are mixing highly addictive crystal meth with other, less harmful drugs, an internal RCMP report says.The report from the criminal analysis section in British Columbia, obtained by CBC News, says drugs such as ecstasy, ketamine and marijuana are being

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Stephen's Harpers government has been forcing draconian cuts in how the press can cover items. There is a complete Transcript of meeting between PMO and Press Gallery officials on March 24, 2006 now available in which the press tried to deal with the recent issues surrounding press coverage.I found it very interesting to read. There are in fact more press issues than are making the general news.

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Cellular phones are always "advancing" with new features. The disposing of cell phones that are still good can lead to pollution problems, both from the cell phone and from the amount of material that is used to create each cell phone. It's something that is becoming a crisis in Britain. But if you need new features on a telephone and can't stay with it for longer there are ways that you can

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McGuinty has again brought down a budget that is supposed to help bring back up to par items that were cut during the Harris era. Left out of this in all of his budgets have been the cuts to social assistance.When I began reading today about the budget I noticed a bit that newspapers seemed to be throwing in, as an aside sometimes, but not discussing. The paltry increase to social assistance

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During the last couple of weeks the press has been talking about the fact that Bob Rae might run for the leadership of the Liberal Party. The emphasis you see in the news are all about how Rae was the New Democratic Party Premier of Ontario. While I guess the mainstream view I find it strange, especially the idea that this has something to say about the NDP now.From my point of view Rae made it

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Code Blue for childcare is a website that is against the Harper cuts in childcare and is working to help rally public support for childcare. The Website includes links to articles about the Harper cuts for childcare and why they are bad for the country---and for women. It also includes updates on actions being taken in support of childcare and links to articles on public childcare in Canada. One

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Daily Kos has a good (and unfortunately very amusing) article on Censuring the President 101We're living in a PowerPoint world. We've become a bullet-point-dependent society. If it can't be summed up succinctly in a handful of slides, then it must not be worth saying. If you're a Member of Congress with a dozen issue briefings to get through every day, then you're more reliant upon the bullet

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The publishers of the Guardian and the Observer have just launched a new service called comment is free. It looks like it launched yesterday and I haven't had a chance to look at it very carefully but it looks very interesting. The best feature (from my viewpoint) is that you can set up RSS subscriptions by author. While I still intend to go to read the newspaper I was missing a lot of the

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Are you a draft dodger from the Vietnam War? Unless you have a pardon, you ought to seriously consider taking the US off your list of places to visit or pass through when traveling elsewhere. Even with a pardon I'm not sure how it works, although I would think it would be safer. But then who would have thought to be hearing about this now?A man with dual citizenship who enlisted in the US marines

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I haven't written anything about the Danish cartoons earlier because I wasn't sure how to put how I was feeling (and still what exactly I think) about what is going on into one piece (especially with not writing all that much lately). However I came across a few pieces that I think expressed the ambiguity that I feel on the situation well (and I do feel on the topic, I just haven't been sure how

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