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Uranium Blockade, CIDA money in Afghanistan, Chile, Guate, Colombia, New Orleans

News Updates — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:39:02 +0000

Government urged to end Native blockade near Sharbot Lake. Doreen Davis, Chief of the Shabot Obaadjiwan Algonquin Nation, states "To come in here and force us out of here when we're standing on our Algonquin land puts us in a position of being at war."

Aid not reaching Afghan hospital: Senlis council reports that "Canadian aid efforts in Kandahar province are failing utterly while the Taliban is increasingly winning support in the southern region where Canadian troops are based... We could not find evidence of CIDA's work or CIDA-funded work at the hospital. We were not able to find the maternity project, or evidence of the $5 million that CIDA says it has given..."

Chileans take to streets in anger at regime: "Yesterday's protest comes after weeks of labour action, including strikes by poultry workers in southern Chile and copper miners in the north. Union leaders called the demonstrations to protest against the government's "neo-liberal" economic policies and to further the national debate about the country's minimum wage."

How to steal votes in Guatemala: Citizens warn that certain parties have a detailled system of vote rigging.

US union leaders push back against proposed free trade agreement with Colombia.

Flaherty on Two Years Post Katrina.

More electoral violence in Guatemala

News Updates — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:17:24 +0000

More electoral violence and assasinations in Guatemala. Police prepare to "reinforce" 60 municipalities where violence is expected during voting. Elections are September 9th.

Today: Ontario teachers invest in Subcrime & more...

News Updates — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:40:42 +0000

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The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan took advantage of subprime/subcrime to the tune of $60,000,000.

Today: Blockades against Shell in BC & more

News Updates — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:02:30 +0000

BC: Demonstrators including members of Tahltan and Iskut First Nations blockaded a road in the Northwest of the province "preventing Royal Dutch Shell PLC crews from heading into a contested region to do road repair work and reigniting a debate over coal bed methane exploration in the area..."

Today: Mexico Vote Fraud, Canada's Disgrace, Mining update

News Updates — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:35:02 +0000

Mexico: Broken Ballot Boxes: The Fine Art of Bad Elections

Canada: The Cases of Maher Arar and Omar Khadr: Canada's Disgrace

Guatemala: National Human Rights ombudsperson receives death threats.

-Mining Related-

China: 181 miners feared dead, families pressured not to protest.

Today: Diebold, Central America, Maldives, Sockeye, Mining

News Updates — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:47:33 +0000

USA: Diebold Inc, maker of voting machines that counted more than 80% of the votes in the US elections in 2004, are having a hard time hawking their product, renamed "Premier Election Solution." Diebold promised Republicans in 2003 that they were committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year," allegations of fraud and tampering abound.

Today: Political Violence in Guate, Lula North/Chavez South, Cambodia evictions...

News Updates — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:49:48 +0000

Guatemala: Candidates for Encuentro por Guatemala, the leftist party for which Rigoberta Menchu is presidential candidate, have been the primary victims of armed attacks over the last week. Since last Monday, one party member has been killed and four injured in armed attacks. Elections are September 9th.

Vying for leadership, Lula heads north, Chávez south: Venezuelan oil, or US/Brazilian ethanol?

Today: Suburbs & Solidarity

News Updates — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:16:49 +0000

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Coal mining and coal bed methane, BC to Montana: Environmental standards? What standards. We can roll the standards into mine start up... Get with the times, people!

Alberta: A strike at the patch?

War kills children, media complicity

News Updates — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:34:56 +0000

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From Al Jazeera: 'Civilians dead' in Nato air raids in Afghanistan.

John Pilger: The Invisible Government lecture delivered a few weeks ago.

Photo from the tyee.

Today: No news on CA4TA, AI probes Oaxaca

News Updates — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:19:03 +0000

Beware Europeans bearing gifts from bilaterals.org: after the emerging disaster of CAFTA, Central American countries recently launched into a new round of trade negotiations, this time with the European Union.

Today: Québec mining subsidies, US arms deal and political violence in Guatemala

News Updates — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:38:23 +0000

Miners digging rebates details the large subsidies that Québec is giving to mining exploration companies. Mongolia comes up again, as in "Quebec's stance is in marked contrast to Mongolia, where a windfall profits tax for mining companies has been introduced... Canadian mining companies had been active in Mongolia, with Canada second only to China in terms of foreign investment, almost all of it in the mining sector."

Mining: Drummond & Mongolia...

News Updates — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:03:35 +0000

Drummond cleared of paramilitary links. Stevenson Avila, Sintramienergetica president states "We knew this was becoming a question of state policy, and that America protects its companies, but we held out hope that presenting real, documented evidence of the company's responsibility, that justice would be served."

Today: Facebook, Frieda Y Feliz Cumple Che

News Updates — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:17:41 +0000

Ottawa Citizen: Canadians crazy for Facebook, politicians getting on board.

México DF: "¡Frida era de izquierda!"... "yo también." Major protest as Calderón attends opening of Frida Kahlo exhibit.

Feliz cumple años Ernesto Che Guevara, (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967).

Today: Skye Resources, Eurasian in Haiti, La Parota, Oaxaca, Achube...

News Updates — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:20:28 +0000

A 12 minute piece by Téléjournal that aired on TV last night revisits the story of evictions in El Estor, Guatemala, on behalf of Canadian mining company Skye Resources that was broken by The Dominion in January, 2007.

Eurasian Minerals announces drill results from their exploration activity in Haiti.

Today: CCPA on military contracts.

News Updates — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:00:17 +0000

New CCPA study shows that Nearly half of military contracts had no competition - Use of such sole-source deals on the rise.