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Access-to-medicine bill is mired in Parliamentary red tape

A parliament battle currently raging gives the impression that the Conservative government isn't keen on delivering affordable drugs to children dying from HIV in the rest of the world.

Of course, many members of the public disagree, especially the 30,261 signatories of a petition calling for the government to support Bill C-393.

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French socialism: In a class of its own

By Gerry Caplan

| July 15, 2011

As one of the few remaining earthlings to happily call himself a socialist, I have now decided that if anything (Stalin and Mao aside) were to drive me away from my lifelong ideology it's the way it's practiced in la belle France. If you jump to the conclusion that I'm referring to the squalid case of "DSK," you are not wrong but only one-third right. (An audience in Rwanda understood instinctively last week when I compared Dominique Strauss-Khan's alleged violation of an African maid to the way the International Monetary Fund has treated Africa for the past many decades.)

Beyond the DSK scandal, it so happens that I have had the great misfortune of running into socialism a la France on other piquant occasions.

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Leaked UN report reveals Rwandan president guilty of genocide

September 22, 2010

| Peter Erlinder was lead defence council for four top military officers accused of genocide in Rwanda. He has been questioning the official story on the Rwandan war for years.

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PeaceFlicks! presents THE PEACEKEEPERS

Start: May 18 2010 - 7:00pm

Location

National Film Board Mediatheque

150 John Street at Richmond St. W.

Toronto M5V 3C3

Canada

Phone: 416-973-3012

43° 38' 57.9264" N, 79° 23' 27.1716" W

See map: Google Maps

The Peacekeepers

NFB Cinema / FREE ADMISSION

Winner, Vaclav Havel Special Award,
One World International Human Rights Film Festival, 2005

Directed by Paul Cowan, 2005, 85 minutes.

With unprecedented access to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers follows the determined and often desperate manoeuvres to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Join us for a discussion with Rob Acheson, co-chair of the Toronto chapter of the Canadian Department of Peace Initiative, and Bodia Macharia, President of Friends of the Congo, following the film.

Contact email:

nfbmediathequeonf@nfb.ca