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BC tree planting camp shut down after workers allege squalid working conditions - Winnipeg Free Press Good thing that Unions are outdated relics and that, in this day and age, the bosses are so benevolent.

Development and Peace | Honduras Imposes Fine on GOLDCORP Subsidiary for Irresponsible Environmental Pollution $55,000 ain't much for a corporation that's making billions... but maybe it's a start. Still, I wouldn't expect the North American media to pick this up. Why would we want to see...

CBC News - World - Khadr's confession can be used: judge No offence to my American brothers and sisters, but this issue, more than any other, has driven me to view both parties who have held executive power in both countries (Canadian Liberals/Conservatives and American...

"Israel's prime minister tried to play down a serious diplomatic dispute with the United States on Sunday, urging calm after another stern rebuke from Washington over plans to build 1,600 new apartments for Jews in contested east Jerusalem." Israeli leader urges calm after new rebuke from US...

Read more: CBC News - World - Sectarian violence in Nigeria leaves 200 dead

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[emphasis added] alJazeera Magazine - Descendants File Protest with UN over Israeli Plans to Build on Old Muslim Cemetery in Jerusalem I am pleased to see that Frank Gehry withdrew his design. It would be a shame for such a great architect to have his name attached to such a project...

Honduran standoff meeting with UN urged Brazil has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency meeting over the standoff at the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, where ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has taken refuge with a group of supporters. About 85 people...

So, not to leap into stereotypes, but anyone want to talk hockey? Who's going to do what this year? My Habs look like it might be a rough year but I guess you never know with Les Glorieux. As for my Canucks (yes, I swing two ways), I don't know that they are stronger or weaker than they...

U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy dies Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the U.S. Senate and bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, died late Tuesday after battling brain cancer. He was 77.

"A Calgary imam who once made headlines for filing a human rights complaint over the publication of the infamous Muhammad cartoons is now calling on all Muslims to support the war against the Taliban in Pakistan." Well-known Canadian imam issues fatwa against Taliban I'm only posting...

"Following the lead of Israel and Canada, the United States will boycott a United Nations racism conference next week because of concerns of anti-Israel and anti-West bias in the meeting's final document, the State Department said Saturday. The Obama administration had lobbied hard for more...

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070629/K062911AU.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/06/22/ahenakew-discussion.html I wonder if David Ahenakew is aware of the tradition of Jewish people working alongside Indigenous peoples... from Felix Cohen in the United States to Canadian lawyers such as Louise Mandel, it is an interesting...

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/22/china-slavery-070622.html :sigh:

http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah220607.htm I thought that this was an interesting piece... we have talked about media spin a lot in the last little bit... this story seems a fairly sharp contrast to what we usually see in the Wester media.

As we know, conditions and people in Iraq are desperate.... desperate or not, this is despicable.... thank God that the soldiers found the children. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/19/iraq-orphans.html

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/19/gaza-trapped-070619.html We must remember, in our apparent thirst to trash Muslims, that there are actually people involved in this.... and we need to focus on them.... not just the joy of perpetuating our own racism.

Well, I guess that Ontario won't have to deal with him... http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/19/kopp-abortion.html

"The U.S. Defence Department is appealing a judge's decision to drop all charges against Omar Khadr, the only Canadian detained in an American prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Bryan Whitman, a spokesman for the Pentagon in Washington, said Friday his department wants military judges in...