As Ali Bigdeli stood in his West Vancouver Persian food store, Alborz, recently, surrounded by dried yellow apricots and tiny green raisins, he talked about setting his Haftsin table, which he does every year ahead of Persian New Year. Known as Nowruz in Farsi, the New Year celebration is the most cherished of all Iranian [...]
At the World Economic Forum last week, Prime Minister Harper said that it is a “national priority” for Canada to begin diversifying our trade relationships, i.e. begin exporting oil to thirsty Asian markets. Along with chastising Europe for their egregious financial management and evangelizing about free trade, the underlying message of his bravado was synopsized [...]
I am really worried about how controlled is the access to government science bodies is becoming, for example, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Environment Canada and in general government science experts. The Harper government has instituted new rules by creating “media contacts” on almost every scientific body run by the government. At plain sight [...]
An Ottawa law professor claims to have discovered unredacted documents pointing towards Canadian military wrongdoing. While digging deeper into the Afghan detainee controversy, Amir Attaran says that he found government documents that revealed that Canadian officials had requested that their former prisoners be tortured by their Afghan handlers. If what Attaran is claiming turns out [...]
Who is Peter Kent? Known to many because of his background as a journalist, (or as a talking head, as some call him), he shot out on the political scene in English Canada as Israel bombed Gaza to bits. the a-team dvd download Kent is Canada’s junior minister for foreign affairs. After the holiday lull, [...]
Some Americans seem to think so, if last Friday’s edition of the New York Times is anything to judge by. The cover of the paper’s January 30th Fashion and Style section was devoted to an in-depth and largely flattering look at the new Liberal leader. Early on, the article compared Ignatieff to former Liberal Prime [...]
The American government’s economic stimulus package has come under fire over provisions that would stimulate the domestic economy at the expense of many of America’s foreign trading partners, including Canada. tangled part 1 Under the “buy American” rules, all equipment used in the US’s economic stimulus program would have to be American-made. Some exceptions would [...]
I was very pleased about the outcome of the last federal election. The Conservatives increased their seat count and it appeared as though none of the opposition parties would have any incentive to force another election anytime soon. “But didn’t you want a Conservative majority?” I was asked the next day, after expressing my approval [...]
Last week, MPs Mario Silva (Liberal) and Olivia Chow (NDP) pledged that a Liberal-NDP coalition government would stop the deportation of American war resisters. But now that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s minority government isn’t going anywhere, war resisters hiding out north of the border are facing an uncertain future.
Last week, President Barack Obama ordered prosecutors in all Guantanamo Bay detainee trials to request that proceedings be halted immediately. In Ottawa, the lines of communication between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defense Minister Peter MacKay seem to have gotten crossed in the hours after the Obama administration’s announcement.
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