May 29, 2007
The corporate climate coup
David Noble says that corporations are feeding the hysteria about global warming to undermine the global justice movement and to create a need for market-based solutions.
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May 28, 2007 40 years of occupationIn June 1967, Israel invaded and occupied Palestinian lands in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. We speak with leading Palestinian intellectual Dr. Naseer Aruri. |
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May 25, 2007 Empire and the BombA new book on how the United States uses nuclear weapons to dominate the world. |
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May 22, 2007 Barrick Gold's dirty secretsA new report by Corpwatch details the impacts this Canadian gold mining company has worldwide. |
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May 18, 2007 New independent medical journal in CanadaOpen Medicine is an open-access medical journal with no ties to professional associations and no advertising from pharmaceutical companies. |
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May 17, 2007 Harper government allows foreign tankers to ply B.C. watersA 35-year moratorium on tankers off B.C.'s coast has been breached in recent months and the federal government is turning a blind eye. |
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May 16, 2007 The mystery of the disapperaring honey beesIt's called colony collapse disorder and it threatens bees in the U.S. and Europe. Geneticist Joe Cummins talks about some of the reasons scientists think it's happening. |
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May 15, 2007 Health care in Canada as good as in U.S. and much cheaperA new study compares the outcomes for seriously ill patients in both countries and finds the biggest difference is in cost, not in results. |
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May 14, 2007 Dying for a HomeStreet nurse Cathy Crowe talks about her new book written in collaboration with 10 homeless activists. |
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May 11, 2007 Soviet Canada 1935Soressa Gardner talks about her new soundscape on her mother's experiences in the communist Young Pioneers in the 1930s. |
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May 9, 2007 B.C. plans to estabish separate schools for autistic kidsThe Minister of Education wants to take special needs kids and aboriginal kids out of the regular school system and set up provincial schools for them. |
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May 7, 2007 Harper's plan on climate changeAl Gore calls it a fraud. Canadian environmentalists call it embarrassing. Louise Comeau analyzes the plan and says it's designed to mislead. |
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May 5, 2007 Trade union organizing in HaitiJeb Sprague of HaitiAnalysis.com talks about the current labour climate in Haiti. |
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May 4, 2007 Singing the songs of worker strugglesEarle Peach is well-known in Vancouver for conducting the Solidarity Notes choir. Here he talks about his latest project - a musical collaboration on the subject labour history. |
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May 3, 2007 Working for a temp agencyPermanent employment is a thing of the past for many workers. We find out what problems temporary workers face. |
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May 2, 2007 New face of slavery in the global economy27 million people around the world toil in slave-like conditions. They can found in every region and every kind of economy. |
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May 1, 2007 Canadian workplaces becoming more dangerousIn 2005, an average of five Canadian workers were killed every day on the job - and the numbers keep climbing. |
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Apr 30, 2007 Crisis in the Canadian Auto Workers UnionAccording to Sam Gindin, the CAW has lost its militancy and is disconnected from broader social movements and this reflects an overall crisis in the union movement. |
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Apr 28, 2007 The evolution of Green parties in Europe and North AmericaFor the past 30 years, Green parties have been a part of electoral politics in much of the Western world. Their relationship with the grassroots has evolved considerably since their early days. |
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Apr 27, 2007 The Walls of NablusA photo exhibition of walls in an ancient Palestinian city has Laura Lamb reflecting on expressionism, photography and the convention of the picturesque. |
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Apr 26, 2007 Vancouver City Council punishes downtown residents' associationThe Downtown Eastside Residents Association has seen all its city funding cut because its civil disobedience tactics ran afoul of City Hall. |
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Apr 24, 2007 Counterfeit drugs in the global SouthUp to 70% of all medicines are fake in some countries in Asia and Africa. We talk to two people working to control the damage they cause. |
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Apr 23, 2007 The Passenger Protect programThe Minister of Transport considers that the Aeoronautics Act gives him permission to establish a made-in-Canada no-fly list. |
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Apr 22, 2007 War and the environmentModern warfare is one of the biggest environmental disasters a country can experience - and it's largely fuelled by the addiction to oil. |