Confrontation and conflict in the last forty years of Canadian environmentalism.
(Published in the Earth Day issue of Resistance Magazine, 2010)
“It is to this new-found resolution to reassert our indivisibility with life, to recognize the obligations incumbent upon us as the most powerful and deadly species ever to exist, and to begin making amends for the [...]
It’s fall and I’m traveling on union business again. Not as much as I was last year now that bargaining is ended but I expect there will be enough to do with simple shop stewarding in the next little while. Prince Rupert last night, I’m writing as I head home – one of my great [...]
I’ve been thinking about Canada as a “country” a lot lately – spending time in the various provinces and cities of the nation will do that to you I suppose. Though, it is probably my time in Ottawa that has caused the most reflection since it is the capital in which the real history of [...]
In a ruling that probably won’t get much press, the Canadian courts have determined that the US can’t be considered a safe country for refugee claimants because it does not uphold international conventions that protect refugees nor does it meet its obligations with regards to conventions against torture.
Essentially the Safe Third-Country Agreement which came [...]
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