Canada

Staying in Afghanistan: Unending occupation

August 2011

While the US focuses on consolidating its permanent military presence in Afghanistan, designed to guard and exploit Central Asian energy reserves, its earlier rational "to fight terrorism" is a faded memory. Afghanis, meanwhile, continue to lose their lives and humanitarian conditions worsen.

Nuclear weapons are incompatible with international humanitarian law

April 2011

Peter Weiss

The Vancouver Declaration affirms the incompatibility of nuclear weapons with International Humanitarian Law.

More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA

October 2009

Manuel Perez Rocha

Obama has not just backpedaled from his campaign commitments to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He has ended up expanding the accord which will remove even more checks and balances on the exchange of capital, services, and goods.

Three Amigos Summit

April 2008

Sarah Anderson

Manuel Pérez Rocha and Sarah Anderson

The forthcoming secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership summit between Mexico, US and Canada will be attended by Wal-Mart, Chevron, and 28 other large corporations, while members of Congress, journalists, and ordinary citizens are excluded.

President George W. Bush will soon...

Busting paranoid right-wing fantasies of dissolving the Mexico-US-Canada borders

April 2008

Sarah Anderson

Manuel Pérez Rocha and Sarah Anderson

This month, President Bush will host the leaders of Canada and Mexico to advance the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a project Lou Dobbs has predicted will "end the United States as we know it."

Lou sounds downright blasé, though, compared to all the online ranting and raving...

Participatory Budgeting in Canada:

February 2006

In Canada, participatory budgeting is being applied in new ways,
generating new strategies for progressive urban politics. This paper
explores the initial Canadian experiences with participatory budgeting:
Guelph's Neighbourhood Support Coalition, Toronto Community Housing's...