What is Wrong With Canada ?
This page is no longer updated but it is a good resource for anyone concerned about where our country is headed. The articles below are from October 2005 to April 2007.
2007 04 13 - Trilateral talks to deal with water supply
Canadian water is on the table at trilateral talks between politicians, businessmen and academics from Canada, the United States and Mexico, the Ottawa Citizen has learned.
A series of closed-door conferences for the North American Future 2025 Project will include the discussion of "water transfers" and diversions, according to the outline for the project, a trilateral effort to draft a blueprint on economic integration for the governments of Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Related - 2006 08 19 - United Church considers boycott of bottled water
Related - 2006 06 05 - Public warned water may go private
2007 04 02 - Language in the North American Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Security and Prosperity Partnership. What a wonderful name. How could you oppose something as benign and noble as that? Do you not want security? Are you against prosperity? What is wrong with you?
I recently wrote a series of articles on the North American Union ID card (Database, Data and Old Idea; New Sales Pitch) and could not help but notice the deceptive and changing language used to promote the idea. Back in 1998, they appeared as “Computerized Smart Cards”. Are those opposed to that not instinctively stupid? They have morphed into new driver’s licenses with a variety of names like “Passport Lite” or “High-Tech Driver’s Licences” or "Laser Visas".
These new cards are nothing like the names would suggest. They are filled with every conceivable piece of information about you that you could imagine. Your fingerprints, retinal scans, DNA, health records, driving history, a picture of your house, internet habits, etc. All the new cards, regardless of their name, contain an RFID tracking chip and are connected to a centralized database for good measure. They are meant to track, trace and catalogue everything you do from birth to death.
Should we keep calling these cards by their government issued names? Or should we call them what they are? At least call them a “National ID Card” or “North American Union ID Card”. Or maybe something more descriptive like the “Track and Trace Card” or “Human Resource Card" or “Human Cattle Card” or something with some historical flair like “Your Papers Please Card”. Would it have made any difference if the Soviets had said “Your Smart Papers Please”? Maybe something more forward thinking like “Rations Card” or “Do You Qualify For a Job Card” or “Have You Paid Your Taxes Card”.
Related - 2007 03 26 The North American Union ID: Old Idea; New Sales Pitch
Related - 2007 03 19 The North American Union ID: The Data
Related - 2007 03 13 The North American Union ID: The Database
Related - More on Canadian ID Cards
2007 03 28 - Stadardizing Quebec for the North American Union
A three party race? The separatist party falling fast with an incompetent leader? An emerging conservative party? What is happening in Quebec? I am not an expert on all the subtleties of the political scene in Quebec. But, sometimes knowing less detail about something as deceptive as politics can add some clarity.
Taking a step back. Canada is currently being merged with the US and Mexico under the Security and Prosperity Partnership or more properly the North American Union (think European Union or Soviet Union). How does Quebec sovereignty fit into this amalgamation of the Americas?
Related - 2007 02 28 - Beware the northeastern free trade dream called Atlantica
Related - 2007 02 26 - Debate heats up over Alta-B.C. trade deal that takes effect April 1
Related - 2007 02 23 - Trade, security on agenda of North American talks
Related - 2007 02 13 - Lou Dobbs and Robert Pastor Discuss NAU
Related - 2007 02 07 - Canadian, U.S. and Mexican officials held secretive meeting on integration
Related - 2007 02 07 - Canada-EU Free Trade?
Related - 2007 02 02 - North America the Beautiful by John Manley
Related - 2007 02 01 - Mexican Migration Project Director Calls for a North American Union
Related - 2007 01 24 - VIDEO: Pretext For The North American Union (NAU)
Related - 2007 01 19 - Free Trade Area of the Provinces?
Related - 2006 12 01 - London stock trader urges move to 'amero'
Related - 2006 11 29 - Air Canada cheers plan to open up Canadian skies, WestJet more guarded
Related - 2006 11 15 - Canada interested in Pacific-wide pact if global trade talks fail: Emerson
Related - 2006 10 12 - NAFTA Highway, the Regina Route
Related - 2006 10 06 - Say NO to Bill C-16
Related - 2006 09 27 - N. American students trained for 'merger'
Related - 2006 08 28 - How NAFTA superhighway is built under radar screen
Related - 2006 07 21 - US Gov stonewalling on 'super-state' plan?
Related - 2006 07 14 - Bush Administration Fast-Tracks Formation of North American Union
Related - 2006 07 01 - Businessman proposes economic union in West
Related - 2006 06 23 - CFR/Bilderberg Plan To Erase US Borders Finally Gets Attention
Related - 2006 06 23 - Canada, the United States, and Mexico... a possible merger?
Related - 2006 06 19 - What's so bad about Bilderberg ?
Related - 2006 06 19 - Competiveness Council formalizes power of big business leaders
Related - 2006 06 16 - Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
Related - 2006 06 12 - Stephen Harper's real agenda of "Senate reform"
Related - 2006 06 09 - United States of North America
Related - 2006 05 31 - President Quietly Creating 'NAFTA Plus'
Related - 2006 05 27 - U.S. interests with their collaborators seek to take-over Canada's Atlantic Provinces
Related - 2006 05 25 - The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'
Related - 2006 05 17 - Continental Integration of Military Command Structures: A Threat to Canada's Sovereignty
Related - 2006 05 01 - Expanded Norad Treaty
Related - 2006 04 19 - Globalization is Killing Canada: Fight for Your Freedom
Related - 2006 02 24 - Norad to be expanded to include maritime surveillance
Related - 2005 11 06 - Ottawa Cements U.S. Hegemony Over Canada - 9/11 The Pretext
Related - 2005 11 06 - So remind us again why Canada had to sign NAFTA?
2007 03 09 - Psychiatrists to get more powers in Alberta
Psychiatrists in Alberta will be able to order treatment without a patient's consent more often under changes to the province's Mental Health Act, which the government intends to bring in during the spring sitting of the legislature.
Right now doctors can only impose treatment if people present a danger to themselves or others. The changes will broaden that to include situations where a patient's mental health is deteriorating.
Related - 2007 04 02 - New laws give Alberta pharmacists the power to prescribe certain medications
Related - 2007 03 20 - College weighs doctor's abuse against military needs
Related - 2007 02 16 - Forum convened after 1 in 6 North Americans reports diagnosis of depression
Related - 2007 02 14 - Patient not competent, doctors can treat eye cancer: judge
Related - 2007 02 13 - Special court sentences the mentally ill to medical help
Related - 2007 02 07 - Winnipeg Jehovah's Witness teen loses fight to refuse blood transfusions
Related - 2007 02 01 - Sextuplet parents take B.C. to court over baby seizures
Related - 2007 01 31 - Ontario paramedics suspended for refusing flu shots
Related - 2006 09 11 - Manitoba Jehovah's Witness teen says she was scared by forced transfusion
Related - 2006 09 08 - Winnipeg girl in court to fight blood transfusions
2007 03 07 - Games security to be largest in history
The Canadian Forces are planning to deploy troops for the largest security operation in Canadian history at Vancouver's 2010 Olympics, but internal documents show military planners face a repeated admonishment to be discreet.
The military are assembling plans to provide maritime security, air support and troops -- possibly calling up reserves -- to secure the Games against a potential attack by terrorists, according to Defence Department documents.
Related - 2007 04 04 - B.C. Ferries considering random security checks of passengers
Related - 2007 03 27 - NYPD Goes Undercover In Canada
Related - 2007 02 22 - Air India Cover Up
Related - 2007 02 22 - B.C. police officers face 3 separate charges
Related - 2007 02 19 - RCMP inadvertently sponsored U.S. gang websites
Related - 2007 01 29 - 2 Vancouver officers suspended for 'trophy photo'
Related - 2007 01 12 - Camouflaged student with long stick forces evacuation of Montreal university
Related - 2007 01 08 - Security breach grounds Vancouver's international flights
Related - 2007 01 03 - Shooting witness tossed in jail - Update
Related - 2007 01 03 - RCMP apologizes for holding suspect naked
Related - 2006 12 01 - Ontario farmer's raw milk stand attracts Toronto police, public health workers
Related - 2006 11 24 - Couple Assaulted, Home Ransacked, Arrested For Accidentally Dialing 911
Related - 2006 11 24 - Judge Recommends Armoured Vehicle for Alberta RCMP
Related - 2006 10 18 - U.S. begins air patrols south of Canadian Prairie border
Related - 2006 10 16 - Family calls results of inquest into police shooting 'garbage'
Related - 2006 10 06 - FBI agents are carrying out investigations in Canada without Canadian approval
Related - 2006 09 15 - RCMP Officer Won't be Charged after Shooting Ian Bush in Head in B.C. Jail
Related - 2006 09 04 - U.S. Coast Guard seeks firing ranges on Great Lakes
Related - 2006 09 01 - 'National security' reason for Khadr passport denial, says PM
Related - 2006 08 21 - Organized crime expert says police must work together to combat terrorism
Related - 2006 08 19 - RCMP watchdog complains force's anti-terrorism work lacks proper scrutiny
Related - 2006 08 09 - Creating Canada's new Commandos
Related - 2006 08 04 - CSIS in Every Mosque
Related - 2006 07 14 - So You Trust Our Secret Police? Think Again
Related - 2006 07 10 - Toronto future home of terror funding watchdog - More
Related - 2006 06 09 - Canada to send more spies abroad, Day says
Related - 2006 06 05 - Lacking a case, CSIS disrupted suspects' lives
Related - 2006 05 19 - Anti-puffing spies to police Quebec smoking ban
Related - 2006 05 12 - Canada Getting More Secret Police
Related - 2006 05 10 - Toronto police force needs cleanup: veteran officer
Related - 2006 04 14 - RCMP the New Super Police
- What has every fascist dictatorship had in common? An all powerful centralized police force. Doesn't the CBC make this sound like such a great idea? Don’t forget to fear your imaginary external enemy and of course the unstoppable organized crime.
2007 03 02 - Canada readies no-fly list for summer
A senior government official told reporters on Parliament Hill on Thursday that Canada plans to have in place a no-fly list for airline passengers by this summer.
Marc Grégoire, assistant deputy minister with Transport Canada, made the comments after appearing before the Commons public safety committee where he spent most of his time trying to quell concerns about potential problems with the new program.
Transport Canada announced the plan for the no-fly list in October. An advisory group will assess individuals on a case-by-case basis, based on information provided by CSIS and the RCMP. The final decision on whose name will appear on the list will be left to the transport minister and the list will be updated every 30 days.
Related - 2006 12 06 - U.S. tracks Canadians for terror traits
Related - 2006 10 30 - Ottawa plans no-fly list by 2007
Related - 2006 09 06 - Air passenger behaviour could be next clue for anti-terrorist screeners
Related - 2006 08 28 - Man fights to have name erased from U.S. no-fly list
Related - 2006 07 26 - Images of millions of Canadians to be screened against terrorist databases
Related - 2006 07 21 - US Controls Who Can Fly in Canada
Related - 2006 07 19 - Terrorist links may not lead to spot on no-fly list
2007 01 18 - Canadian Terrorist Informant Talks Entrapment
The RCMP's star witness in a coming terrorism trial appeared on national television last night saying the ringleader of an alleged terrorism plot possessed "total indifference to innocent life."
Mubin Shaikh made many new allegations on CBC's fifth estate. He even went so far as to don military fatigues as he revisited what is alleged to have been a terrorist training camp -- in front of the cameras, while re-enacting his real-life role as a paid agent working undercover as an al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist instructor.
Eighteen suspects were arrested around Toronto last summer and charged with conspiracy. Their trials could be months, even years away. Yet last night, Mr. Shaikh, a long-bearded fundamentalist Muslim and former army cadet, described details of the paid undercover work he said he did for police last year.
Mr. Shaikh gave an account of how he helped an alleged group of extremists quickly move from talk to action, before they were rounded up on conspiracy charges by police.
Related - 2007 02 26 - Canada: Sponsoring terrorists with public funds
Related - 2006 02 23 - Charges stayed in Harper beheading terror case
Related - 2006 02 02 - Terror informant wanted $14-million
Related - 2006 10 14 - 2nd mole played key role in bomb plot probe
Related - 2006 08 28 - Fifth accused granted bail in alleged Toronto bomb plot
Related - 2006 07 21 - Use of mole shows there's 'no terrorism in Canada'
Related - 2006 07 17 - Police bomb-plot informant provokes mixed reaction
Related - 2006 07 14 - Public interest demands publication ban in terror case be lifted
Related - 2006 06 29 - Bail denied for two teens facing terrorism-related charges
Related - 2006 06 27 - Al-CIA-Duh DVD Hits Toronto Streets
Related - 2006 06 27 - History of police investigations of terrorism spotty at best
Related - 2006 06 23 - Even the newspaper guys knew about the terrorist arrests beforehand
Related - 2006 06 21 - Canada: A Galloping Police State?
Related - 2006 06 14 - Terror suspects subjected to 'torture' lawyers
Related - 2006 06 14 - Lawyers for bomb plot suspects upset over publication ban
Related - 2006 06 12 - Terror in the details
Related - 2006 06 09 - 'Group of 17' trial to test Canada's new terror act
Related - 2006 06 09 - Canada to send more spies abroad, Day says
Related - 2006 06 09 - Arrests part of probe tracking militants through web
Related - 2006 06 09 - Oh Canada, My Country ‘tis of America
Related - 2006 06 09 - Alleged terrorist not that 'type of guy,' say schoolmates
Related - 2006 06 07 - Framing Patsies in Toronto and London
Related - 2006 06 07 - Canadian 'Terror Plot' Begins To Unravel
Related - 2006 06 07 - CSIS: Canada Joins the Intel Op Club
Related - 2006 06 07 - RCMP Changes Fertilizer Story
Related - 2006 06 07 - Toronto Star: 'Perhaps Toronto 17 Not Terrorists At All'
Related - 2006 06 07 - Open letter to the Canadian mainstream media
Related - 2006 06 05 - RCMP arrests 17, foiling alleged Ont. bomb plot
2007 01 12 - Canadian victim of CIA brainwashing seeks class-action against government
"I was a guinea pig," Huard told The Canadian Press.
On and off over more than a decade at McGill University's renowned Allan Memorial Institute, Huard says she received massive electroshocks and was fed more than 40 experimental pills a day.
Huard, who will be 79 at the end of the month, says she was drugged and subjected to so-called "depatterning," during which repetitive recordings were played in her ear for weeks on end, one of them telling her she was of no use to her family.
"I came out of there so sick that my mother had to live with me for 10 years," Huard says. "I couldn't take care of my children any more."
Huard says she lost memories and suffered from migraines.
The ordeal came at the hands of Dr. Ewen Cameron, an Edinburgh-educated, New York-based doctor who pioneered "psychic driving," by which he believed he could erase the memories of patients and rebuild their psyches without psychiatric defect.
Related - 2007 03 19 - Ottawa psychiatrist resigns over allegations of 'disgraceful' sexual impropriety
Related - 2007 01 15 - Sikh community 'stunned' by sex charges against priests
Related - 2006 10 06 - Victims to testify at Project Truth sex abuse inquiry
Related - 2006 08 04 - Retired Ontario priest pleads guilty to 47 sex charges
Related - 2006 07 17 - Spudco: Has anyone been fired yet?
Related - 2006 04 14 - Mass Graves Of Children Found Near Montreal
2006 12 29 - Canada to examine data on cloned food
What kind of health concerns are we talking about? Besides making bones brittle and elevating fracture risks, scientists have been digging up connections between fluoridated water and neurological impairment, drops in IQ, depression of thyroid function and the pineal gland. And most recently, a study was published out of Harvard this spring (after purportedly being suppressed by a Colgate-funded research supervisor there) that highlighted a connection between fluoridated water and a sevenfold increase in bone cancer in young boys.
That's kind of disturbing when you think Toronto's been adding fluoride to its water since the 60s. A push to overthrow the system and hold a public referendum on the matter in 1999 failed. But across North America about 150 towns and cities have rejected fluoridation since 1990. Most recently, debates have been sparked in Montreal, Palm Beach, Boulder and Lismore (Australia). Israel suspended its national mandatory fluoridation policy last month.
Public pressure did lead to lowering our dose from 1 part per million (ppm) per litre, down to .8 and down again to .6 this year. But scientists and concerned citizens are saying that's not good enough.
Related - 2007 02 20 - Canned tuna exceeds guidelines on mercury: CBC investigation
Related - 2007 01 22 - Kids’ drug is cancer fighter
Related - 2006 12 01 - Health Canada warns of hallucinations among Tamiflu users
Related - 2006 11 27 - Proposed Ont. labelling law would target carcinogens
Related - 2006 11 17 - Cosmetics makers to list ingredients on packaging
Related - 2006 11 10 - Commons kills food labelling proposal for restaurants, packaged meat
Related - 2006 09 29 - Canadians Should Pay NOT to be Poisoned: NDP
Related - 2006 08 02 - Canada's Fluoride Fixation
Related - 2006 07 04 - Supplement used in Canada after being linked to U.S. deaths
Related - 2006 07 01 - Ottawa to limit non-stick, stain-repellent chemicals
2006 12 06 - P3s, Nazis and Polite Canadian Fascism
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
An often overlooked attribute of the Nazi Party was their close relationship to German industry. In fact they received a lot of their funding from big industrialists like August Borsig (Berlin locomotive manufacturer), Emil Kirdorf (Coal Syndicate) and Fritz Thyssen (United Steel Works and president of German Industrial Council). They were rewarded for their support when the Nazis obtained political power. The Nazis shifted a lot of the once fully public assets into joint public-private control. [1]
Does this sound familiar?
According to the Canadian Press, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty recently “made a pledge to give maximum impact to government spending through public-private partnerships.” He called this the “Advantage Canada plan”.
Who’s advantage?
Related - 2007 04 20 - Harper calls on a Harris man
Related - 2007 04 09 - P3 hospital project cost overruns are the Premier's fault: Opposition
Related - 2007 03 06 - Canada warms up to public-private partnerships
Related - 2007 02 12 - UN-sanctioned Edmonton water company aims for big profits amid criticism
Related - 2007 02 09 - New toll bridge for Canada
Related - 2006 11 27 - P3 or not P3? Big pension funds hope for new infrastructure opportunities
Related - 2006 11 22 - Ottawa entertains private role in new bridge at Canada's busiest border crossing
2006 11 27 - Vancouver to get Canada's First Private ER
Canada's first private emergency room is scheduled to open next week for urgent care services, though both adminstrators and the B.C. health minister aren't entirely certain of its legal status.
The False Creek Surgical Centre, which already performs private surgery for a fee, won't be allowed to accept patients from ambulances or allow patients stay more than 24 hours when it opens next week.
Dr. Mark Godley, the centre's medical director, said the emergency room will operate much like those in small, publicly funded hospitals, and with similar hours: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
"The facility is just like any small cottage hospital emergency room," he said. "It's the first time in Canada that this will be done."
Related - 2007 03 15 - Ontario mulls private knee operations
Related - 2007 01 17 - Quebec will lift 13-year prescription drug price freeze
Related - 2006 11 27 - N.S. introduces legislation to regulate private health clinics
Related - 2006 09 29 - Ontario allows hospital to hire private company to run ER
Related - 2006 08 23 - Private health-care advocate wins CMA presidency - Pay hospitals based on patients treated: head of CMA
Related - 2006 07 08 - Nova Scotia's D'Entremont reopens private health debate
Related - 2006 06 14 - The Pharmaceutical Health Minister
Related - 2006 03 24 - MDs want hospitals kept public
Related - 2006 02 17 - Liberal Senator reveals hypocrisy on Universal Public Healthcare
Related - 2006 02 17 - Private health care has role in Quebec, says Charest
Related - 2006 02 15 - Conservatives want fully privatized healthcare
2006 11 22 - Doctors advise on how to decide who to treat, who not to treat during flu pandemic
A team of critical care doctors has come up with a tool their colleagues would hope never to have to use - a guide on how to make the harrowing decisions about who not to treat during a flu pandemic.
The triage protocol, as it is called, suggests a scoring system that would see treatment withheld from people with the least chance of surviving in favour of helping those deemed to be more likely to pull through if they get care.
The protocol, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, doesn't suggest scoring the elderly more harshly based on age alone. But the authors admit advanced age could be a count against care in a future version of their decision tool.
"We received strong and consistent feedback from both expert and stakeholder consultations that an age criterion should be included," they wrote.
Related - 2007 04 11 - Ont. health minister says new bill addresses anti-psychotic drugs in nursing homes
Related - 2007 04 10 - Province considering paying people to donate liver, kidneys: Health Minister
Related - 2007 03 29 - Alberta doctors support outspoken peer
Related - 2007 03 01 - New approach to reviewing cancer drugs starts March 1
Related - 2007 02 15 - Nurses tape woman's mouth shut
Related - 2007 01 31 - Warts going on - with or without vaccines
Related - 2006 11 01 - Need more consultation before 'presumed consent' comes to Ontario
Related - 2006 10 23 - One in nine Canadians get infections in hospital
Related - 2006 10 23 - Silicone gel breast implants approved for return to Canadian market
Related - 2006 10 16 - Draft policy would give Manitoba docs power to stop treatment
Related - 2006 09 27 - P.E.I. could pay for anti-cancer vaccine
Related - 2006 08 25 - Many breast cancer donations don't go into research: study
Related - 2006 08 04 - Does the Flu Shot Work?
Related - 2006 07 21 - Selling your organs in Canada?
Related - 2006 07 21 - Cervical cancer vaccine approved in Canada
Related - 2006 07 12 - Wish you had mastered the art of drug unswallowing
Related - 2006 07 08 - Canadian Whistle blower spills medical-ethics myths
Related - 2006 07 01 - Vaccinate 11-year-old girls against cervical cancer: U.S. panel
Related - 2006 05 15 - Drug spending in Canada climbs to $25 B in 2005
Related - 2006 05 03 - Psychiatric drugs harming Canadians: report
2006 11 22 - Calgary passes public behaviour bylaw
Calgary City Council voted Monday night to pass a public behaviour bylaw despite the protestations of dozens who gathered outside City Hall.
The bylaw, which takes effect immediately, makes it illegal to spit, fight, carry a sheath knife, urinate or defecate in public or put one's feet up on public property.
Fines would range from $50 to $300.
2006 11 15 - Controversial ID cards have support of 53 per cent of Canadians: Study
The controversial idea of Canadians carrying a national identification card that bears their personal information has the support of more than half the country, a new study of public attitudes towards privacy suggests.
The cards - strongly opposed by privacy commissioners and civil libertarians despite calls for their use in the wake of the 9-11 terror attacks - are considered a good idea by 53 per cent of Canadians, according to a study released Monday by Queen's University.
Still, 48 per cent of the study's 1,001 Canadian respondents expressed concern that post-9-11 laws aimed at protecting national security are too intrusive - exposing a Canadian public "polarized" on issues of privacy, said one of the researchers behind the study.
Related - 2007 03 15 - Ontario considering smart cards
Related - 2007 03 02 - U.S. ambassador says land passport rule coming sooner rather than later
Related - 2007 02 27 - Going to Canada? Check your past
Related - 2007 02 23 - Pilot project in B.C., new Ont. ID offers hope for relaxed U.S. passport rules
Related - 2007 02 13 - Minister Day announces that NEXUS takes off at Toronto Pearson International Airport
Related - 2007 01 15 - Tories earmark millions for high-tech border
Related - 2006 10 27 - Proposed federal changes mean ID cards at voting booths
Related - 2006 10 23 - U.S. ambassador says new high-tech ID cards will speed up cross-border travel
Related - 2006 10 02 - U.S. Congress approves 17-month passport delay for Canadians
Related - 2006 08 11 - U.S. proposes fingerprinting Canadian workers
Related - 2006 07 28 - NAFTA Superhighway RFID Card For US Citizens
Related - 2006 06 14 - Microchips in humans inevitable: Alberta
Related - 2006 06 12 - Microchip implants raise flags
Related - 2006 05 08 - New Canadian Govt. Promises Better US Border Security
Related - 2006 04 24 - New RFID travel cards could pose privacy threat
Related - 2006 04 12 - Border ID cards coming, PM says
I hope everyone likes the idea of being tagged and tracked like cattle. This will soon expand into a national ID card. Enjoy the slave state.
Related - 2006 04 03 - Bush stands firm on passports for Canadians
Related - 2006 03 08 - Health and immigration records sold at B.C. auction
Related - 2006 02 22 - Canadians to need national ID card, Stockwell Day says
2006 11 15 - Fingerprinting dental patients raises privacy concerns
A Winnipeg dentist has adopted a system that allows patients to announce their arrival with a touch of their fingers — which has raised the eyebrows of some privacy experts.
Tim Dumore started fingerprinting his orthodontic patients about six months ago.
He has installed a biometrics system that allows his patients, most of whom are children, to sign in without telling a receptionist. On arriving, they touch their finger to a pad at the front desk and a computer sends a message to staff workstations.
While Dumore says most of his patients and their parents have willingly co-operated, he admits some have been reluctant.
Related - 2007 03 21 - US wants all 10 fingerprints on entry
Related - 2007 03 19 - CBC Video Shills for Retinal Scans and Big Brother
Related - 2006 12 04 - Automated air screening could be expensive, difficult, intrusive: documents
Related - 2006 11 20 - U.S., Canada to share forensics data
2006 11 03 - Battle for 'Net neutrality' arrives in Canada
The battle in the United States by major telecom companies to control web content has arrived in Canada with little fanfare, and it’s a fight that could forever change the Internet as we know it.
It’s being waged over something called Net neutrality, dubbed the First Amendment of the Internet in the United States. Net neutrality aims to ensure the public can view the smallest blogs just as easily as the largest corporate websites.
“Right now, the Internet is almost a perfect, universal democracy,” says Pippa Lawson, the executive director of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Law Clinic. “The smallest bloggers can be accessed as easily and as quickly as the websites of major corporations.”
But Lawson says that could change drastically if Canadian telecommunications companies like Bell, Telus and Rogers follow the lead of their American counterparts, including Verizon and AT&T. Canadian companies have already argued in various forums that Net neutrality legislation isn’t necessary.
Related - 2007 04 16 - Rogers Must Come Clean On Traffic Shaping
Related - 2007 03 28 - Liberals Try To Resuscitate Big Brother Plan for the Internet
Related - 2007 02 07 - Government documents suggest Tories not nervous about ISPs interfering with Net
2006 11 03 - Combat engineers exposed to deadly mix in Kuwait
A three-year, comprehensive investigation has verified claims that Canadian soldiers in Kuwait were exposed to depleted uranium, along with a sampling of other toxic chemicals.
The Canadian Forces ombudsman Yves Cote has completed a report, largely based on claims by Major (Ret'd) Fred Kaustinen that members of his regiment were exposed to harmful substances during their deployment to Kuwait in 1991 in the aftermath of the first Gulf War.
2006 10 30 - Nothing is secret
Along with surreptitious listening technology placed in other nations and along the lines of communication that run between them, each nation operates its own stations, chock full of an array of cutting edge eavesdropping equipment.
In Canada, the most important sits in Leitrim, a sleepy community of Ottawa that was just countryside when the station, codenamed CAF97, was first constructed in 1941. Now, it sits a scant distance from the end of Bank Street, where the city's longest street turns into Highway 31, taking busy urbanites past the capital's airport and subdivisions. Although the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) never talks about its operations publicly, Leitrim - a Canadian Forces base - is long believed to have monitored Russian submarine and shipping activities in the Arctic.
It's been a decade since the network was revealed in Nicky Hager's book Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network and it wasn't until 1999, and the publication of a privacy report for the European Union, that Signals Intelligence agencies admitted they existed. By then, the end of the Cold War had left Signals Intelligence -SigInt to those involved - adrift; they were relegated in importance to the back of the bus, with efforts aimed at preventing corporate and industrial espionage.
Related - 2007 01 24 - 8 Security cameras on Guelph buses
Related - 2007 01 12 - Spies embedding tiny transmitters in Canadian coins, U.S. report says
Related - 2006 11 15 - Tories announce $37M in transit security funds
Related - 2006 11 15 - Vancouver eyes surveillance cams to deter drunks
Related - 2006 11 08 - Police hope ISPs will do more to help in fighting child exploitation
Related - 2006 11 03 - Smile, commuters! You're on transit camera!
Related - 2006 10 10 - Toronto police board eyes surveillance system
Related - 2006 09 04 - Privacy commissioner questions federal plans for Internet surveillance
Related - 2006 09 01 - Stop enacting laws that violate privacy, B.C. privacy czar tells politicians
Related - 2006 08 17 - Privacy czar probing whether U.S. officials saw Canadian bank records
Related - 2006 07 26 - Who's watching the watchers?
Related - 2006 07 12 - Employers spying on Canadian workers, study suggests
Related - 2006 07 10 - Big Brother in back seat
Related - 2006 07 08 - Big Brother Bell
Related - 2006 07 04 - Is Ottawa listening in? No one seems to care
Related - 2006 07 04 - Ontario Privacy Commissioner issues RFID guidelines
Related - 2006 07 01 - Big Brother watching you surf?
Related - 2006 07 01 - CIA may have accessed Canadian banking records
Related - 2006 06 29 - Spy watchdog criticizes 'lack of clarity' in surveillance regime
Related - 2006 05 29 - Police state looms as Vancouver engages in the War on Terror
2006 10 27 - Electronic voting blamed for Quebec municipal election 'disaster'
Quebec's chief electoral officer is urging the province to stop using electronic voting systems.
In a new report on problems with Quebec's 2005 municipal election, chief electoral officer Marcel Blanchet targets the electronic voting system used to collect and count the votes.
The election was an expensive disaster marked by errors, which produced inaccurate numbers and unreliable results, the report said. And the new electronic system is to blame, it adds.
But it's too late to question the results, Blanchet concludes.
The report is enough to convince Quebec to keep its current ban on electronic voting, said Municipal Affairs Minister Nathalie Normandeau.
But Montreal's main opposition party, Vision Montreal, is questioning the election results.
2006 10 20 - Troops will be in Afghanistan for next 20 years, says commander
The commander of the British forces returning from Helmand said that his forces were having to make up for the time lost by the decision of the US and UK to invade Iraq instead of concentrating on post-Taliban Afghanistan.
Brigadier Butler continued that an international presence may be required in Afghanistan for the next 20 years, but he did not specify how long the British forces would have to remain.
Brigadier Butler, who heads the 3 Para Battle Group, has just handed over command in Afghanistan. He disclosed that his troops had come close to running out of supplies ."It got pretty close. We never actually ran out but that was the nature of the conflict. The guys were not starving but people were down to their belt rations," he said.
"I think we might have been surprised on occasion how persistent the attacks were and how enduring the scale of the operation was. I think some may have underestimated the tenacity and ferocity of the Taliban."
Related - 2007 02 14 - Afghan villagers told they'll be expelled again if Canadian troops attacked
Related - 2007 02 06 - Military probes abuse allegations in Afghanistan
Related - 2007 01 22 - Canada to beef up military punch in Afghanistan, but no more infantry: general
Related - 2006 12 01 - Accept defeat by Taliban, Pakistan tells Nato
Related - 2006 11 20 - UN chief: Nato cannot defeat Taliban by force
Related - 2006 11 17 - Military looking to buy more high-tech howitzers to support operation in southern Afghanistan
Related - 2006 10 25 - Canada Using White Phosphorous?
Related - 2006 10 25 - Colonel urges patience on Afghanistan mission
Related - 2006 10 23 - Britain 'risking defeat in Afghanistan'
Related - 2006 10 23 - Military considers longer tours of duty in Afghanistan
Related - 2006 10 23 - Who are the Taleban? The question that is snaring Nato in Tribal wars
Related - 2006 10 20 - Chrétien government rejected military's advice on Afghan deployment: ex-army chief
Related - 2006 10 04 - British troops in secret truce with the Taliban
Related - 2006 09 18 - Canada to send tanks, more troops to bolster efforts in Afghanistan - Urgent Parts Order - $189M
Related - 2006 09 08 - Warnings about tough Afghan mission were there a year ago; did anyone listen?
Related - 2006 09 06 - After 2 generations of peace, Canada has no yardstick to gauge combat deaths
Related - 2006 09 01 - 'Canada can do more' for Afghanistan: O'Connor
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Related - 2006 07 31 - NATO OKs plan to expand Afghanistan mission
Related - 2006 07 10 - Probe clears Canadian soldier in Afghan's death
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2006 10 16 - Slide Show: Canada's Role in Ballistic Missile Defence
2006 09 27 - Gap in pension contributions widens between high and low wage earners
2006 09 22 - Secret Banff Meeting of CEOs and the Defense Establishment : Militarization and the Deconstruction of North America
Cabinet ministers, Five Star Generals together with North America's top corporate executives mingle in the plush surroundings of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel.
This secret venue on "Continental Prosperity in the New Security Environment" focused on "Deep Integration," which largely consists in flushing national sovereignty in favor of "Fortress North America".
According to the draft program (see below), Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Banff, Alberta to deliver the keynote address on "military to military cooperation". Canada's Minister of Public Security Stockwell Day focused his address on issues of North American public security.
Top brass from the US and Canada were in attendance. Canada's Minister of Defense Gordon O'Connor was present together with Chief of Defense Staff, General Rick Hellier.
Related - 2006 10 10 - Conservatives plan to fast track new limits on Canadian sovereignty
Related - 2006 09 22 - North America confab 'undermines' democracy
2006 09 22 - What does Canada's foreign aid buy? That's private.
Canada's access to information laws make it hard to find out how billions of our foreign aid tax dollars are spent, says an Ottawa researcher.
Amir Attaran, a professor at the University of Ottawa, said part of the problem is Canada's foreign aid money is now funnelled through third party agencies in other countries — such as the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) — that are not required to release the information to the Canadian public.
This year, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which administers 80 per cent of Canada's aid dollars, had a budget of almost $2.5 billion.
Related - 2006 12 01 - Ontario children's aid societies misspent money, auditors allege
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2006 09 15 - Evidence linking Jaballah to 1998 Nairobi bombing 'laughable,' lawyer argues
A lawyer representing suspected Egyptian terrorist Mahmoud Jaballah calls the evidence against his client "laughable."
John Norris is heaping scorn on Justice Department lawyers who claim Jaballah's ownership of a fax machine, cell phone and computer is proof of his links to terrorism. Crown lawyers have argued the equipment proves Jaballah served as a communications relay in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi.
Norris tells Federal Court Justice Andrew MacKay that argument makes no sense.
Norris compares it to accusing someone of being the getaway driver in a bank robbery simply because they own a car.
Related - 2007 04 19 - China jails Uighur-Canadian "terrorist" for life
Related - 2007 02 23 - Top court overturns security certificates, gives MPs year to draft new law
Related - 2007 02 16 - Terror suspect freed after almost 7 years
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Related - 2006 10 25 - Mounties kept Liberal government kept in the dark about Arar: former minister
Related - 2006 10 23 - Parts of Canada Secrecy Law Struck Down
Related - 2006 10 18 - Family of Canadian citizen in Chinese prison begs for help
Related - 2006 10 04 - Innocent Tortured Detainee Speaks of Bush's "Professionals"
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Related - 2006 09 20 - Arar report recommends RCMP overhaul approach to anti-terrorism inquiries
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Related - 2006 09 13 - Two more torture victims hoping for answers from Arar report
Related - 2006 09 13 - Ottawa man challenges 'broad and vague' anti-terrorism law
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Related - 2006 09 08 - Jewish man removed from airplane for praying
Related - 2006 09 01 - Sequel to RCMP raid on reporter's home
Related - 2006 08 23 - Newspaper challenges RCMP search warrants
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2006 08 09 - His nightmare began on 9/12
A refugee claimant who was handed over to American officials at the border as a terror suspect the day after 9/11 says he is still trying to figure out how he was launched into a five-year nightmare in U.S. jails.
Benamar Benatta, newly freed after 58 months in custody, is a former Algerian Air Force lieutenant. He is believed to be the last of about 1,200 Muslim men swept up in post-9/11 investigations to be released.
He was finally allowed to leave a U.S. immigration lockup late last week after his lawyers brokered a deal with Canadian immigration authorities to let him pursue the refugee claim he originally began at the Peace Bridge days before the 9/11 attacks.
Within days of the attacks, Benatta found himself in solitary confinement under abusive conditions — some of which are documented in court filings — south of the border.
Related - 2007 02 13 - Our shameful silence
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Related - 2006 07 12 - Canadian teen abused at Guantanamo Bay
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Related - 2006 07 01 - Khadr's lawyers say he's in rough shape, should go back to Canada
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Related - 2006 06 23 - Hunger strike at Guantanamo North
Related - 2006 06 23 - Terrorism suspect Harkat released on bail
Related - 2006 06 19 - Canadian crimes of state: Guantanamo Bay North
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Related - 2006 06 14 - Supreme Court hears security certificate challenge
Related - 2006 05 29 - The Children of Guantanamo Bay
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Related - 2006 04 24 - Canada: Security certificates overturn long-standing democratic rights
Related - 2006 03 27 - Minister Responsible for Deportations to Torture Refuses to Arrange Meeting
Related - 2006 03 06 - Forgotten man close to death
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Related - 2006 03 06 - CIA Landed Up to 74 Torture Flights in Canada
Related - 2006 02 22 - U.S. judge dismisses Arar lawsuit
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2006 09 13 - Target Practice: Canada Post and the Privatization of Guatemala’s Postal System
In 1997, the World Bank loaned thirteen million dollars (US) to the government of Guatemala to finance the privatization of the country’s seaport, electrical grid, and telephone and postal services. A Canada Post subsidiary and its offshore partner International Postal Services (IPS) received the lucrative concession to manage the privatization of the Guatemalan postal service.
Canada Post International Limited (CPIL), which at the time was known as Canada Post Systems Management Limited, is a subsidiary company of Canada Post, a crown corporation wholly-owned by the government of Canada.
The World Bank had predicted that the three labour unions representing Guatamalan postal workers would resist the privatization project and the plan to “shed excess labour.” But rather than negotiate a contract with the unions, CPIL is alleged by former postal workers and postal union leaders to have deliberately eliminated all three unions using illegal tactics.
Former workers and union officials allege that by using bribery, company unions, intimidation, physical assaults, death threats, and various other illegal tactics, CPIL-IPS not only eliminated the unions, but engineered a complete turnover of staff within eighteen months.
Guatemalan labour federation leader José Pinzón observes that even the worst labour abuses during the dictatorships (which followed the CIA coup against the labour-friendly democratic government in 1954 and lasted through the 1980s) were no worse than the union-busting tactics employed by CPIL-IPS and the other transnational agents of privatization.
Related - 2007 04 16 - Made in Canada Violence: Mining in Mexico
Related - 2007 02 13 - Privatizing Canada Post would improve 'anachronistic' mail carrier: Study
Related - 2007 01 29 - Guatemalan police & army perform illegal evictions for Canadian mining company
Related - 2006 12 01 - EU seeks WTO talks with Canada over 'discriminatory' new wine and beer tax
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2006 09 11 - New report suggests violence has become much worse in Haiti since Canadian intervention
An estimated 8 000 individuals were murdered in the 22 months following the US- and Canada-backed overthrow of the government led by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a new report suggests. The study, based on randomized interviews with Port-au-Prince residents conducted by The Lancet, a prestigious UK-based medical journal, also estimated that 35,000 women were victims of sexual assault during the same period.
The report has revived criticisms of Canadian policy in the poorest country in the western hemisphere. At the time of the coup, documents acquired by the Dominion expressed the view that “President Aristide is clearly a serious aggravating factor in the current crisis,” though officials at the time publicly denied backing the coup.
The findings, however, suggest that the situation for Haitian residents of Port-au-Prince became perilously worse after Canada intervened and Aristide was removed from the country. Specific reports of Canadian troops sexually harassing local women have been cited by the Ottawa Citizen, but some critics have called attention to Canada’s broader responsibilities for the humanitarian crisis.
RCMP officers have been responsible for vetting and training the Haitian National Police, the force that The Lancet study cites as being responsible for significant and systematic human rights abuses.
Related - 2007 02 21 - Civilians caught in crossfire during Port-au-Prince raids
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Related - 2006 09 22 - Canada's Responsibility to Protect Haiti?
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Related - 2006 05 08 - Fraud and Scandal in Haiti’s Presidential Election
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Related - 2006 04 17 - Declassifying Canada in Haiti: Part I
Related - 2006 04 17 - Declassifying Canada in Haiti: Part II
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2006 08 11 - Jewish leader in Canada wants crack down on Hezbollah demonstrations in Canada
The vice-president of B'nai Brith Canada says his organization wants police forces and the federal government to crack down on pro-Hezbollah demonstrations.
Frank Dimant says the streets of Canada should not be taken over by extremists supporting a known terrorist group. He said his group has been in talking to police forces and government officials to target the rallies.
"The streets of Canada will not be taken over by radical Islamic forces supporting terrorist activities," he said Wednesday. "B'nai Brith Canada will do its utmost to ensure that Canadians will not be intimidated by these terrorist sympathizers."
Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, said Jewish groups need to tone down their rhetoric and focus their efforts on urging a ceasefire in Lebanon.
"We are living in a liberal democracy where opposing voices to an overseas conflict is acceptable as long as they are peaceful," he said. "There is no need to call on authorities to crack down on demonstrations."
Related - 2007 03 08 - Term 'visible minorities' may be discriminatory, UN body warns Canada
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Related - 2006 09 06 - Hate writer sent to jail
Related - 2006 08 25 - Ottawa lawyer asks CRTC to block access to US-based hate websites
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2006 08 09 - Canada's Participation in the War in Iraq
Back in March 2003, then-U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci admitted that Canada was of greater assistance in the US-led war against Iraq “than most of those 46 countries that are fully supporting us.”
What? But how can that be? Canada gave a defiant ‘no’ to the war in Iraq, didn’t it? Well, actually, no. While the Liberal government wanted Canadians to believe that they had stood up against the U.S. and opposed the Iraq war/occupation, Canada was (and still is) very much involved.
What’s worse, despite the still-prevailing myth that Canada never joined that war, our government, corporations and military are still closely collaborating in the U.S. occupation. Here are 14 ways in which Canada joined the fray.
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2006 08 02 - Canadian Military Components used in Israel's War Against Lebanon
Few Canadians realize that their country is one of the world's leading producers and exporters of advanced, war technology. Such is the power of the long-prevailing mythology that Canada is a great, global force for peace.
However, many of Israel's most-deadly, US-made weapons systems--now being used in air strikes against Lebanon--would not be able to function without hundreds of crucial, high-tech, electronic components supplied by Canadian war industries, and subsidized unwittingly by Canadian taxpayers. Here are three examples:
Related - 2006 08 17 - Canadian Forces to enlist 30 per cent of recruits within a week, Hillier says
Related - 2006 08 17 - CAE Inc. wins trainer contracts worth $75M from British and U.S. military
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2006 07 21 - The costs of media concentration
Media ownership is more concentrated in Canada than in any other Western country — and our laws to protect the public interest from excessive media power are the weakest anywhere.
The reasons are not hard to fathom. Politicians are afraid of media owners, most of whom are richer and more powerful than they are. Every politician is familiar with the old adage: never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel or newsprint by the ton (or who commands fistfuls of broadcasting licences).
Politicians will normally respond to pressure from the press or the public. In the situation we are discussing, however, there is no effective pressure. The media have no interest in enlightening the public about the perils of entrusting too much power to too few media owners. And media owners are not beating a path to Parliament to demand that MPs order them to divest some of their holdings. Obviously.
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Related - 2007 01 16 - Headlines on popular Internet news sites can be bought for a price
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2006 07 14 - Bombing suspect was a party animal, Montreal friend says
In fact, Assem Hammoud lived a very different life from that of a Muslim militant, said Hami Haman, who shared an apartment with Hammoud when he attended Concordia University. There was "a lot of booze, a lot of parties, a lot of sex," Haman told CBC Radio.
Haman rejected that idea, saying Hammoud liked Canada, didn't like bin Laden and was against killing people in the name of religion. "There was not even talk of al-Qaeda or jihadism, or anything like that. "
Lebanese internal security forces addressed that issue last week, saying that Hammoud had been told to hide his true nature.
"[Al-Qaeda] requested from him not to show any religious tendencies during his stay in Lebanon and to give the picture of a frivolous and uncommitted youth," a security forces communiqué said.
Related - 2006 07 10 - Sources say no serious plot for NYC, just hate chatter
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2006 07 10 - The Hon. Mr. Martin’s Dishonourable Secret
Madeleine Drohan, one of The Globe and Mail’s outstanding writers, was recently brought home from her European beat to inject some life into that paper’s fusty business section. But to stay in ascension G&M writers must encapsulate themselves in professional ignorance on certain touchy questions. That is why in her column of 22/9 ("Show me the numbers, Mr. Martin") Ms. Drohan embarrasses our former Finance Minister with a question that really puzzles her. "We are all adults here. So why doesn’t Finance Minister Paul Martin treat us as such and tell us how much of a budget surplus he is expecting this year and for the next couple of years?"
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There is no difference if it is a majority or minority government these banks will merge because no one is resisting it. Why are bank mergers bad?
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2006 07 10 - Missing passports in hands of terrorists, criminals: newspaper
About 50,000 Canadian passports that were lost or stolen in the last four years have fallen into the hands of criminals or terrorists, a Montreal newspaper reported on Friday.
Le Journal de Montréal said it found the information in documents RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli filed with Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, dated Feb. 6. It acquired the documents through the Access to Information Act.
The newspaper said the documents are a compilation of several reports, portions of which were not released under the Act.
Related - 2006 11 24 - Gap that allowed alleged spy to get passport persists: report
Related - 2006 09 04 - Suspicious letters spark fear in federal employees in Yukon
Related - 2006 08 30 - iPod sparks terror scare in Ottawa
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2006 07 10 - Sask. MLAs accept pay hike
Saskatchewan MLAs accepted a recommendation on Friday to increase their salaries to $80,500 per year.
"The general public is never, and never will be, pleased with representatives of the legislature getting a wage increase," said Yates.
"People do not understand the roles and responsibilities of members of the legislature very well."
Committee chairman Arthur Wakabayashi said Saskatchewan politicians should be better compensated for the work they do and that their salaries have not kept pace with inflation in the past 10 years.
Related - 2007 02 09 - More Government Bonuses For Newfoundland
Related - 2006 12 13 - Ontario's government plans to give provincial politicians a raise of about 28 per cent
Related - 2006 08 02 - Government gives senior officials pay increase
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2006 07 01 - Canadian Paramilitary Secret Police Kidnap, Detain, Torture Bilderberg Investigators
Three Canadian citizens who visited the Brookestreet Hotel in Ottawa to observe members of the Bilderberg Group earlier this month were kidnapped, detained without charge and suffered the ordeal of a marathon interrogation session and psychological torture - including threats to "cut off the arms" of one of the victims.
The nightmare began on June 9th, the second day of the Bilderberg conference. After being warned to leave the previous day, Joe Burd's party of three left the site of the Brookestreet Hotel at 2pm where he and Crystal Slack headed for a local bar, while Burd's friend electrician Don McCormick rested in their rented vehicle which was parked on a downtown street.
What happened next should chill the core of anyone who thinks that westerners still live in a free society.
Related - 2006 06 16 - Bilderbergers slither away
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2006 06 16 - Canadian Children are Toxic Waste Dumps
A cocktail of toxic chemicals have been found in the bodies of children across Canada, according to a study released Jun 1 by the non-profit organization Environmental Defence.
The study, called “Polluted Children, Toxic Nation,” discovered a number of toxic chemicals that have been linked with neurological, reproductive and hormonal damage in both the adults and children who participated.
“The most shocking result is that in many cases kids had higher levels of toxins than their parents did,” says Rick Smith, the executive director of Environmental Defense. “The obvious implication of that is that this whole idea that pollution is getting better in our country is complete nonsense.”
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2006 03 01 - Canadian Mergers hit $166-billion - All told, there were 1,244 announced transactions in 2005 — a rate of more than three a day, seven days a week, and a 42-per-cent increase over the 875 deals in 2004.
Thirty-four “mega-deals,” or transactions valued at more than $1-billion, contributed to the increase. They totalled $103-billion compared with 35 mega-deals valued at $48-billion in 2004.
Related - 2007 03 27 - Gildan Activewear closing 5 plants, cutting 1,800 jobs
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