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The Canadian Wheat Board's Last Stand?

Anna Kirkpatrick investigates proposed changes to the CWB that farmers fear will decrease their viability and increase transnationals' profitability.

Farmers fear that proposed changes in the CWB will mean that farmers lose out and transnationals cash in

Preventative Justice

Activist Jaggi Singh speaks from jail about his arrest--not for what he did, but for what he might do.

Activist Jaggi Singh is arrested for what he might do and threatened with six months in detention

Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?

As questions about the accuracy of the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia persist, academics are split on whether to ignore it, or start contributing.

As questions about the accuracy of the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia persist, academics are split on whether to ignore it, or start contributing

Digging Up Canadian Dirt in Colombia

Chris Arsenault travels to Colombia to investigate the impacts Canadian aid agencies and corporations are having there.

Canadian corporations and aid agencies facing controversy and resistance in Colombia

The High Cost of Lousy Water

Kim Petersen investigates charges that First Nations are being forced to pay for the lack of clean drinking water on reserves.

Water Crisis in Indigenous 'Canadian' Communities

Chávez, le diable et l'ONU

Le président vénézuelien Hugo Chávez plaide pour une réforme de l'ONU.

Le président vénézuelien Hugo Chávez plaide pour une réforme de l'ONU.

December Books

Hart, Southwood, Taylor and Henderson cover new work by Trofimuk, Trussler, Wah and Szumigalski.

Conservative Post

A postal worker is facing disciplinary action after refusing to deliver a homophobic pamphlet. Gwalgen Geordie Dent investigates.

Postal Worker Facing Disciplinary Action After Refusing to Deliver Homophobic Pamphlet

Grilled Cheese and War Crimes

Chris Arsenault chats with an average 23-year-old who's hoping Canada won't send him back to the US to fight in a war he doesn't believe in.

US soldier who refuses assignment in Iraq claims refugee status in Canada

Coup in Iraq reportedly in the making

Selectively Terrified

Mary Foster tracks the history of Hezbollah and examines how it became a terrorist organization in Canada.

How Hezbollah became a terrorist organization in Canada

The Logic of 'Humanitarian Intervention'

Brendan Stone investigates the ideology behind 'the responsibility to protect,' and asks who is protecting whom.

Neo-colonial tool serving geopolitical interests

Thousands of police invade Oaxaca, protests continue

Warfighters, Not Missionaries

Jon Elmer determines that Afghanistan is not a random act of Canadian policy, but an entire foreign policy apparatus acting on a well-articulated plan.

The origins of the three-block war

Whose Trauma?

Maya Rolbin-Ghanie explores the place of the "Somalia Affair" in Canadian mythology.

The "Somalia Affair" and Canadian mythology

Genetically Modified Diplomacy

Yuill Herbert examines Canada's international biotech agenda and the government's most recent GM 'victory.'

Canada's International Biotech Agenda

Canadian Aid or Corporate Raid?

Harsha Walia examines the work of Canada's development agency in South Asia.

Canada's development agency in South Asia

Will Eliminating Subsidies Help Poor Farmers?

Dru Oja Jay investigates how corporate control of markets goes missing in discussions about "free trade."

The NFU's Darrin Qualman discusses how corporate control of markets goes missing in discussions of "free trade"

Minerals, Gas and Spin-offs

Dawn Paley investigates how CIDA's 'development work' is influencing resource extraction in Bolivia.

CIDA's resource regulation projects in Bolivia

Canada's Quiet Free Trade Agreement

Cyril Mychalejko investigates the CA4TA, a free trade agreement few Canadians have heard of.

Few people have heard of CA4TA

An Indian Act

Stewart Steinhauer's response to a genocide attempt in Canada.

A response to an attempt of genocide

Recognition and little else

Critics say Canada has tacitly or openly supported the US campaign to replace the government of Venezuela. Yves Engler asks why.

Canada's Anti-Venezuela Diplomacy

"Dust in the Eyes of the World"

Prominent feminists debate the logic of a "humanitarian" war in Aghanistan. Anna Carastathis investigates.

Feminists debate logic of "humanitarian" war

Canadian Member

Chris Arsenault drops by the exclusive Canada Club in Bogata, Colombia, and considers the cost of Canada's elite.

Membership is limited at the Canada Club in Bogata, Colombia

Lebanon Solidarité

Dave Johnson investigates the strong --and growing-- Quebéc-Lebanon solidarity movement.

The Québec-Lebanon solidarity movement is strong and growing

Israel, Lebanon and your own backyard

Looking to address global injustice? Stewart Steinhauer suggests looking under your own two feet.

Canada and Israel are the same type of state: a nation state founded on colonialism

Like Weeds in a Garden

Pierre Loiselle asks why the Canadian government omitted over half of the Genocide Convention before making it law.

Genocide, International Law & Canada's "Indian Problem"

New cuts and conditions for Status of Women Canada

New Brunswick's New Business

Chris Arsenault spends an afternoon at an arms convention with some nice folks.

An afternoon at an arms convention with some nice folks

Post-Colonial?

Michael Skinner discovers that the impact of privatization in Guatemala has Canada Post's stamp of approval.

Canada Post and the privatization of Guatemala