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JUL 01_31_2018
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KeepEmStraight - Vimeo Interviews with Dr. Shiv Chopra
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Common Ground Magazine publisher Joseph Roberts / interviews with Dr. Shiv Chopra. Former Health Canada senior scientist B.V. Sc. & A.H., M.Sc., Ph.D. & now a Health Canada whistle blower, presents an overview of the negative impacts of the TPP trade deal & criticizes Illegal actions taking place in the hands of our government which negatively impact consumers and the health of the general public at large. Trade deals of which the TPP is just the latest Evil where money is placed before practically anything leading societies in the wrong direction resulting in loss of freedoms for the general public.
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Bank of Canada, Finance Minister, and Others
Face Lawsuit for Alleged IMF Conspiracy
Crown lost two attempts to have case tossed, has days left for final appeal.
Story has been blacked out from mainstream media...Digileak
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Audio (38 min) - Interview with Rocco Galati
Rocco Galati
Bank of Canada Act in effect since the 1930’s but not adhered to by the Canadian government since 1973.
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Article June 15, 2015
Will Justin Trudeau Overturn His Father's $1.1 Trillion Dollar and Counting, Blunder?
In 1934 Parliament brought down the “Bank of Canada Act” to create a central federal bank, the Bank of Canada. Prior to this private banks ran Canada's banking system. From 1938 until 1974 the Bank of Canada operated as a publicly owned corporation. Under this Act, the Federal government was allowed to borrow for special projects or lend to the provinces, over 30% of their annual budget that must be paid within a year. Note: Canada is the only G8 country to have a central public bank.
Using the Bank of Canada model, our WWII debts were paid way ahead of other countries. From 1938 to 1974 the Bank of Canada funded highways, railroads, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and many hospitals and universities with no interest.
In 1974, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau led government decided to ignore the 'Bank of Canada Act' and start borrowing from the International Banking System, including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Canadian private Banks. This policy has been continued by Finance Ministers since that time resulting in interest charges of $28 to $50 Billion each year since 1974. Ironically, the Bank of Canada Act is still on the books but being ignored. It is suggested that it is being left there, in case the World Banking system collapses and the government will have something to fall back on.
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If the Bank of Canada Act were followed, then austerity plans would be a moot point and large projects would be possible to create jobs, boost our economy and get us out of debt.
A group of citizen's (COMER) represented by Toronto lawyer Rocco Galati filed a motion in 2011, against the Federal government to adhere to the 'Bank of Canada Act' and has won two appeals. In 2015 it was given a go ahead to proceed and is headed for a Supreme Court showdown.
Ironically the mainstream media and our 2015 election was and is silent on this issue except for a handful of articles. This is very telling in a so called democratic society. The Banking Cartel has long arms and we are talking about huge figures to the tune of 1.1 trillion dollars of interest we have unnecessarily paid since 1974 and counting.
So what will PM elect Justin Trudeau do about it? Stay tuned. Eyes wide shut. Justin does not even admit that it is happening at the moment.
Canadians deserve better than to be held ransom year after year by the Banking Cabal and government partners in crime. Justice for All!
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Audio interview with lawyer, Rocco Galati (38 min)
Canadian taxpayers are paying $28 to $50 Billion dollars of interest to the Banking Cartel each year that we don't have to pay. This has been going on since 1974. Let us backtrack a bit.
Canada: There is a better way for a sustainable economy without debt
One of the functions mandated to The Bank of Canada is making loans to the federal and provincial governments (and indirectly, to the municipal) at no or very low interest, interest which is returned to the people of Canada through the Treasury. Another function is to issue and regulate the national currency on behalf of government, fulfilling one of the government's constitutional responsibilities. The Bank carried out these tasks for 40 years, Canada's "golden years."
However, since it joined the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and, in 1974, its Group of Ten charged with the control of banking on a global scale, the Bank ceased lending to both federal and provincial governments. Instead it forced them to borrow from private banks at compound interest, which resulted in significantly increased deficits and debts.
When people are held hostage financially they can be easily controlled. Public programs can be eliminated, services cut, and the economy downgraded while billions are siphoned through the banks to the richest 1% of people.
Because our central bank is publicly owned we can, by law, hold Government responsible to fulfill its mandate and that of the institution for which it is responsible -- the Bank. How do we do that? Through Parliament. But when Parliament fails in this as it has for 40 years? We do it collectively through civil society with an organization that takes it on.
For over three decades the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform, an NGO known as COMER, has raised awareness of these issues across the land. COMER has now taken the bold step of going to court to challenge the government and the Bank of Canada to fulfill their mandates.
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Supreme Court of Canada Dismisses Constitutional
Bank of Canada Case, Claiming It Is a Political Matter
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Toronto, May 31, 2017 – After nearly 5.5 years of contentious litigation between the Committee On Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) and the Government of Canada involving three separate Federal Court and two additional Federal Court of Appeal hearings resulting in contrary decisions, on May 4, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed COMER’s “leave” (permission to appeal) application from the second judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal.
Following established practice, the federal Supreme Court does not issue reasons when it dismisses a leave application. The dismissal by the Supreme Court of the Leave application, means only that the Court does not want to hear the appeal. The jurisprudence on this is clear: it does not mean that the lower court decisions are correct in law. The possible reasons for the Supreme Court not wanting to hear the case are many and various, including the washing of their hands or “deference” to the political process – hence, this is why reasons are not issued by the Supreme Court in leave dismissals.
We believe that the case has ample legal merit, and should have proceeded to trial. It is not uncommon for the Supreme Court to refuse leave on a given issue multiple times, finally to grant leave, hear the appeal and the case then succeeds. The Supreme Court controls its own agenda, both in its timing and on the merits of issues it will or will not hear. (Annually, fewer than 8–10% of all cases filed are granted permission and heard at the Supreme Court of Canada.)
It should be noted that throughout this arduous and expensive legal process, the substance of this lawsuit initiated in the public interest has not been addressed. The matters raised by the lawsuit are summarized in the original news release (pdf) issued on December 19, 2011.)
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From 1938 to 1974 we had a PUBLIC Bank in Canada and almost no DEBT. From 1974 to 2012 the Canadian governments have been borrowing from the Private Banking system costing Canadians $1.1 Trillion in interest charges we did not need to pay under the Bank of Canada ACT.
The Banking Cabal in Canada - Digleak Oped (June 25, 2018)
Private Banks have been given $30 - $50 Bn in interest payments annually,
since 1974 from the Feds.
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The Bank of Canada ACT made Canada unique from 1938 to 1974. As a public institution, it was mandated to give short term loans to the provinces with 'No interest'. That is right, ‘No interest’.
Canada, consequently was the first country among the G8 to pay off its WWII debt. With no interest Canada built the St. Lawrence Seaway, highways, railroads, universities, hospitals right up to 1974. At that time, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau government decided that the 'Bank of Canada ACT' would not be obeyed and made the provinces borrow for projects from the private banking system only. From that year forward, we have being paying $30 to $50 Billion a year of interest. According to lawyer, Rocco Galatti, who took the Federal government to task in 2011, accusing the government of disobeying the Bank ACT, that Canadians have payed $1.1 Trillion dollars of interest (1974-2012) they could have used for local projects, under the Bank of Canada ACT of no interest short term loans.
In 2017, the federal court decided that this was a political matter and dismissed the court cased, spearheaded by the Comer group. More info at: (Comer.org).
This move in 1974, precipitated the rush to privatize everything, since provinces and cities were being downloaded with debt and their source of no interest loans had dried up thanks to the merger of Canadian government and Private Banking interests.
When financed minister's are challenged on this issue, there standard answer is one of, we have to work with in the rules of the world banking system. So does that mean that Canada was a marauder from 1938 to 1974? There answer makes no sense and is a common practice of Orwellian spin that if you say a lie long enough it becomes the truth.
When is our legal system and accounting firms going to get behind the Canadian taxpayer and stop the bleeding of our coffers by the Private Banking Cabal and use this much needed tax dollars to strap cashed projects like, affordable housing, inclusive health care (mental and physical), mass transit, organic food subsidies, and much more?
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Gross Canadian Government Debt, 1867 - 2008
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Book and Video: Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism (2 min)
by author Joyce Nelson
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Published on Mar 20, 2017
"Joyce Nelson’s deep dive into the economics of the Bank of Canada is an eye-opening account of the privatization of Canada’s public assets and the new economic reality. Well-researched, provocative and impressive in its scope, Nelson’s research uncovers portions of the banking world the general public might not be aware of and gives alternatives to the financial world as we know it. It’s not all banking – the book delves into the impacts these policies and players have had on people and political movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Hydro One sell-off situation.” —Anna Killen, Beach Books
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The book names the people and organizations responsible, and outlines a step-by-step erosion of the public interest mandate that has allowed trade deals such as NAFTA, CETA, the TPP, and TISA to open up public services to corporate takeover and limit our ability to control banks and investment corporations. Nelson exposes the major players privatizing the world and creating a new state of feudalism. Iceland resisted and so can we.
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High amount of Glyphosate found in 200 Canadian Foods tested
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This brief analysis is drawn from the results of the 200 out of 7,000 entries of data from results of foods tested by CFIA for presence of Glyphosate or AMPA, which is the first metabolite of glyphosate and equally nasty. I have so far managed to transcribe (retype into a spreadsheet) and partially analyzed the data into a separate table, and writing this summary on the partial sets of data.
66% of Canadian samples and the same 66% of US samples had some amount of glyphosate/AMPA. Out of that, 36% of Canadian Samples and 40% of US samples had measurable quantities of Glyphosate. Canadian Samples had trace amount showing up on Glyphosate Screening, but no concentration amount was measured.
Samples from the rest of the world are few, but fas as I can see, the food from the rest of the world is cleaner than the North American when it comes to Glyphosate contamination
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Heritage Minister Melanie Joly ignores NCC 6 month site review
and 8000 submissions for New Civic Hospital Campus
Op-Ed, Ken Billings, Editor, Digileak
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On November 24th, the National Capital Commission (NCC) Federal Site Review for the New Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital announced their choice from the 6 month, 12 sites, 1000 page report with over 8000 inputs from the public. They chose the Tunney's Pasture site as having the best location of mass transit, roads, sewers, electrical, water, and only one building to remove, an old heating plant.
The response from Jack Kitts, CEO of the Ottawa Hospital rejected the NCC decision saying there were too many buildings to remove and it would be too costly and time consuming. First of all there is only one heating plant to remove and with a timeline of 2026, there is plenty of time to build on the Tunney's site. As well, the Tunney's site has adequate sewer, water and electrical systems already in place. The Sir John Carling site on the Farm also has a fault line running through the construction zone that would add engineering costs to construction of the hospital and still pose a risk.
According to the NCC site review, the Experimental Farm site would give an initial 50 acres to the hospital site along with an additional 20 acre option. That is 70 acres of Experimental Farm land gone to developers.
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Ottawa prepares to hand over historic federal farmland to corporate developers
Unpublished Ottawa - Ken Billings
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Author's Note:
The decision by Heritage Minister Melanie Jolie, Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, Provincial MP Yasir Naqvi, and Mayor Jim Watson on December 2nd, 2016 to overturn the six month NCC Site Review Study only 1 week after the announcement of Tunney's Pasture as the best choice, was the height of arrogance and abuse of power. This prompted me to write the article and create the video.
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Video (5 min)
Canada integrating universities into its militarist foreign policy
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An important aim of the new national defence policy Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government announced last June is to integrate the country’s universities more fully into the ruling class’ aggressive and increasingly militarist foreign policy.
The 113-page defence policy document outlines policy changes to draw universities, individual academics, and “promising” graduate students into playing a more important role in developing high-tech armaments and formulating strategy and propaganda for the aggressive assertion of Canadian imperialism’s interests and ambitions around the world.
The defence policy calls for a major rearmament program as well as the “modernization” of NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defence Command), in furtherance of the Canadian Armed Forces’ participation in ongoing and future US-led wars around the globe.
The real objective of the policy was made clear by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland in early June when she said Canada must be ready to use “hard power,” i.e. wage war, to defend its interests under conditions of growing “threats” arising from the rise of China, “Russian expansionism,” and the collapse in popular support for the US-led world capitalist order.
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Dr. Shiv Chopra on Vaccines and toxins in our food
Dave Janda, Freedom Radio - A farewell Interview (22 min)
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Sunday, Nov. 5th, 2017
Dave Janda, Freedom Radio
interviews Dr. Shiv Chopra for the last time.
Dr. Shiv Chopra
Microbiologist, Vaccination Researcher and Specialist, Former Senior Scientific Advisor on Vaccinations for Health Canada (www.shivchopra.com)
Operation Freedom is a weekly LIVE radio show broadcast from The Freedom Bunker at WAAM Talk 1600 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ( www.waamradio.com) The show airs every Sunday from 2-5 pm Eastern. The show can de streamed LIVE and Podcasts are available at www.davejanda.com.
The show presents and dissects information The LAME Stream Media will not touch! Topics presented include: Geo-politics, Finance, Economics, Health Care Policy, Climate Change,Geo-Engineering, and Current Events. The show takes on The Right - Left Faux Axis and EXPOSES those entities stripping Freedom and Liberty from EVERY American and EVERY person worldwide.
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Dr. Shiv Chopra
Dr. Dave Janda
Shiv Chopra_Health Regulator_Monsanto Tribunal, The Hague Oct_16_2016
”Monsanto cannot do anything without your governments permission”. (90 sec)
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Shiv Chopra_Health Regulator
Oct_16_2016
”Monsanto cannot do anything without your governments permission”. (90 sec)
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Health Canada’s Launches sugar, salt, fat symbol
But what about the 5 toxins in our Food?
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Feb. 9th, 2018
The Minister of Health, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, today announced that Health Canada will launch consultations on regulations for a new front-of-package symbol on food. This is part of Health Canada’s eating strategy.
The irony is, that these items (salt, sugar and fat) are already on the label for food packaging and include the percentages contained in that food. So what is going on here?
What is not labeled, are 5 toxins in our food which are: Hormones, Antibiotics, Slaughterhouse waste fed to farm animals, GMO’s(glyphosate) and pesticides. All but pesticides have been banned in Europe for decades.
STAND UP - For Food Safety - This 4-minute doc urges citizens to mobilize, ban contaminants in our food supply and take back the food system. Produced by The Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and Health. A food advocacy group campaigning and organizing for sustainable agriculture and an organic food system. The Council promotes a ban on toxins currently permitted in our food supply. Thanks to industry self-regulation hormones, antibiotics, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides & GMOs continue to be approved by Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency - contrary to the Food and Drugs Act!
Ontarians paid $37-billion above market for electricity
over eight years, Auditor-General's report says
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Ontarians have paid $37-billion more than market price for electricity over eight years and will pay another $133-billion extra by 2032 as a result of haphazard planning and political meddling, a report from the Auditor-General says. The Liberal government has repeatedly overruled expert advice – and even tore up two long-term plans from the Ontario Power Authority for the electricity system – in favour of political decisions that drove up power costs for consumers, the report says.
What's more, Hydro One is in rough shape, with ever-increasing numbers of power outages and aging equipment "at very high risk of failing" that needs $4.472-billion worth of repairs – even as the province is selling 60 per cent of the company to the private sector.
The revelations about Ontario's expensive and aging electricity system were in Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk's annual report released on Wednesday.
"We found that the electricity power planning process had essentially broken down over the past decade," Ms. Lysyk said at a Queen's Park news conference. "The [energy] ministry has made a number of decisions about power generation that went against the OPA's technical advice. In addition, these decisions did not fully consider the state of the electricity market or the cost impact on consumers."
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Shiv Chopra Interview Part-3 Food Sovereignty_You Can’t Eat Money (6 min)
Common Ground Interview with Whistleblower Dr. Shiv Chopra
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Common Ground Magazine publisher Joseph Roberts / interview (part-3) with Dr. Shiv Chopra. Former Health Canada senior scientist B.V. Sc. & A.H., M.Sc., Ph.D. & now a Health Canada whistle blower, presents an overview of the negative impacts of the TPP trade deal & criticizes Illegal actions taking place in the hands of our government which negatively impact consumers and the health of the general public at large. Trade deals of which the TPP is just the latest Evil where money is placed before practically anything leading societies in the wrong direction resulting in loss of freedoms for the general public.
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Thank you for watching and being concerned about the direction corporate controlled governments are leading todays world population. *** ***For access to all of the KES Dr. Shiv Chopra video coverage / Vimeo Album Titled: Dr.Shiv Chopra Album Link "Corrupt to The Core"; Click here > Corrupt to the Core / Dr. Shiv Chopra
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Jogger who accidentally crossed U.S. border from B.C. detained for 2 weeks
Jon Hernandez · CBC News · Posted: Jun 22, 2018
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A woman from France visiting her mom in B.C. says U.S. Border Patrol held her for crossing into Blaine, Wash.
A visitor from France says she was jogging along the beach south of White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. So began a two-week nightmare that landed her in a prison jumpsuit.
Cedella Roman, 19, didn't know it at the time, but as she ran southeast along the beach on the evening of May 21, she crossed a municipal boundary — and, shortly after, an international border.
As the tide started to come in, she veered up and onto a dirt path before stopping to take a photo of the picturesque setting.
She turned around to head back — and that's when she was apprehended by two U.S. Border Patrol officers.
"An officer stopped me and started telling me I had crossed the border illegally," she told CBC News.
"I told him I had not done it on purpose, and that I didn't understand what was happening."
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CAJ CONDEMNS CHARGES AGAINST AYLMER EXPRESS JOURNALISTS
Canadian Association of Journalists - June 25, 2018 by kathleen.speckert@caj.ca
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The Canadian Association of Journalists condemns the criminal charges brought against Aylmer Express publisher John Hueston and reporter/editor Brett Hueston.
“The OPP’s decision to charge a father and son team who run a community newspaper is a stunning and unacceptable assault on press freedom and the public’s right to know,” said CAJ President Karyn Pugliese. “We urge the OPP to immediately withdraw all charges against the journalists.”
On June 23, a car drove off a cliff at the South end of Springfield Road above Lake Erie. The following day, June 24, a Special Investigations Unit was brought in to determine if an OPP police vehicle had been in pursuit at the time of the crash. The death was ultimately determined to be a suicide, clearing the OPP.
On the 24th, while the investigation was ongoing, John and Brett Hueston drove past a road closed sign and arrived on the scene, which is not unusual for local reporters. A plain-clothed officer on the scene told journalists they could not take photos and needed to move their car. John Hueston asked for the officer’s identification, was referred to her superior, who after a short discussion ordered arrest of the two journalists. They were arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail at the Elgin OPP detachment where they were held for three hours until the crash scene had been cleared. Their cameras were also confiscated.
John Hueston, 67, and Brett, 33, now face charges of criminal obstruction of a peace officer.
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John and Brett Hueston (Alymer Express) journalists to fight for press freedom in court.
Party’s Over: Why We Need to Abolish Political Parties
By Andrew Nikiforuk 29 Jun 2018 | TheTyee.ca
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In 1943 Simone Weil, a French philosopher and mystic, concluded that political parties had become organizations dedicated to one purpose: “killing in all souls the sense of truth and justice.”
Although her radical essay calling for the abolition of political parties wasn’t published until 1950, it remains the only polished political stone on a beach now smothered in plastic.
The rightness of Weil’s argument is about as obvious as the opioid crisis, the existential threat of climate change or the demise of global economic growth.
A 2014 book, Tragedy In the Commons, shed much light on the whole totalitarian story.
Based on interviews with exiting Canadian politicians, the authors found that their subjects shared a near total disdain for the discipline, feuds and partisanship of the party system. “As power consolidates under the party leader and staff, MPs become increasingly powerless and the voters increasingly disenfranchised, making the misfortune of this behaviour all the more acute,” concluded the authors.
By actively preventing party members from speaking for truth or justice, modern political parties cultivate mendacity the way cellphones archive selfies. Party politics demand that politicians must, on a daily basis, lie to the party, lie to the public and lie to themselves.
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Can you tell the difference? BC NDP Premier John Horgan meets with federal Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in July 2017. Every political party in Canada seems dedicated to breaking promises or thwarting the public interest, argues Andrew Nikiforuk. Government of B.C. photo.
$100 billion and rising: Canadian farm debt
Posted on July 3, 2018 by Darrin Qualman
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A. The amount of money that farmers pay each year in interest to banks and other lenders ($3 billion, on average) is approximately equal to the amount that Canadian citizens each year pay to farmers ($3.1 billion). Thus, one could say that, in effect, taxpayers are paying farmers’ interest bills. Governments are facilitating the transfer of tax dollars from Canadian families to farmers and on to banks and their shareholders.
B. Canadian farmers probably could not service their $100 billion dollar debt without government/taxpayer funding.
C. To take a different perspective: each year farmers take on additional debt ($2.7 billion, on average) approximately equal to the amount they are required to pay in interest to banks ($3 billion on average). One could say that for two decades banks have been loaning farmers the money needed to pay the interest on farmers’ tens-of-billions of dollars in farm debt.
Over and above the difficulty in paying the interest, is the difficulty in repaying the principle. Farm debt now—$102 billion—is equal to approximately 64 years of farmers’ realized net farm income from the markets. To repay the current debt, Canadian farm families would have to hand over to banks and other lenders every dime of net farm income from the markets from now until 2082
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Canadian farm debt, 1971-2017
Fishing boats converge on Nova Scotia harbour as part of effluent pipe protest
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Dozens of fishing boats steamed towards a hulking pulp mill in northern Nova Scotia on Friday, marking the climax of a boisterous demonstration that saw more than 1,000 protesters call on the mill’s owners to scuttle a plan to dump millions of litres of effluent a day into the Northumberland Strait.
Chanting “No pipe, no way!” a long line of marchers streamed onto the pier of a sun-drenched marina in Pictou, which is directly across the town’s harbour from the massive Northern Pulp mill.
A fishermen’s group estimated that about 200 boats were part of the flotilla that sailed into the breezy, choppy harbour around 1 p.m., then circled back to the marina as a protest rally got underway.
Though the kraft pulp mill provides much-needed jobs for the town of about 3,000 residents, its pipeline plan has raised concerns about the impact on the lobster fishery, other seafood businesses and protected areas along the coast.
After years of pumping 70 million litres of treated wastewater daily into lagoons on the edge of the nearby Pictou Landing First Nation reserve, Northern Pulp wants to dump it directly into the strait.
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Fishing boats pass the Northern Pulp mill as concerned residents, fishermen and Indigenous groups protest the mill’s plan to dump millions of litres of effluent daily into the Northumberland Strait in Pictou, N.S., on Friday, July 6, 2018. (CP/Andrew Vaughan)
Making a difference: Indigenous co-ops in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
The News Coop by Mike Hatfield July 3, 2018
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Initiatives range from improving food security to broadband co-ops aimed at narrowing the digital divide.
Co-operative values are being put into practice to help the indigenous peoples of Canada reclaim their cultural identities and develop the economies of their communities.
Much of the focus is on issues surrounding food security, with the co-operative model seen useful for promoting indigenous food sovereignty.
Canada has a population of around 1.7 million indigenous people, who are grouped into three categories: First Nations – indigenous people from south of the Arctic Circle, Métis (who trace their descent to First Nations peoples and European settlers), and Inuit communities.
Census figures say nearly half of First Nations people (49.3%) live on reserves, while more than half of indigenous people overall (56%) live in urban areas.
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In 2015, they produced a handbook on co-op development for First Nation peoples in the province, Local People, Local Solutions. It wants to encourage First Nation people to circulate money within their own communities rather than spending it on external businesses – and notes that “for thousands of years, Aboriginal collaborative societies prospered” in the region.
Figures showed that 133 of Canada’s 8,500 co-operatives are run by indigenous people. First Nations and Métis-controlled co-ops employ 1,400 people with an average of 18 people per co-operative, the handbook adds.
Retail co-operatives under First Nations and Métis control represent 71% of Aboriginal co-operatives, and account for 93% of annual sales of CAD $250m.
The average income for First Nations and Métis co-ops is $230m for retail co-ops (mainly grocery stores), $5.5m for fishing and $4.5m for forestry.
In 2001, Aboriginal consumer co-ops were growing at a rate almost twice that of the retail sector or other consumer co-ops, the handbook says.
It gives examples including the Muskoday Workers Organic Co-op, launched in 2005 to produce organic vegetables for local and regional markets, uses the co-op structure to give “a sense of ownership and decision-making power that reflected the collectivity of First Nations culture”, says the handbook.
Iroquois Nationals reject Palestinian request
to boycott world lacrosse championship in Israel
National Post - July 11, 2018
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The Nationals, who represent the Iroquois Confederacy, often find themselves ensnared in conversations that transcend the sport they play.
“As indigenous peoples, we have both seen our traditional lands colonized, our people ethnically cleansed and massacred by colonial settlers,” the Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) wrote in an open letter addressed to the Nationals on July 4, eight days before the team was to face the U.S. in its opening game at the world championship.
“We are asking you to respect our nonviolent picket line by withdrawing from the 2018 World Lacrosse Championships, denying Israel the opportunity to use the national sport of the Iroquois to cover up its escalating, violent ethnic cleansing of Palestinians throughout our ancestral lands.”
PACBI’s letter failed to convince the Nationals to boycott the tournament, but Thompson said he doesn’t intend to ignore the group’s message. He didn’t know very much about Israeli-Palestinian relations before last week, but he has since looked into the history of the conflict, reading articles and reaching out to friends of his with a familial connection to Palestine. He said he can empathize with the plight of Palestinians who are maltreated and deprived of water and food resources, against which they have little recourse except for protest.
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The 2018 Woodrow Lloyd Lecture
Dr. Pam Palmater - 90 min - A video all Canadians need to watch/hear!..Digileak
'Truth and Reconciliation in Canada: If It Feels Good, It's Not Reconciliation'
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Indigenous lawyer, author, and social justice activist Dr. Pam Palmater presents 'Truth and Reconciliation in Canada: If It Feels Good, It's Not Reconciliation' at the University of Regina, 15 February 2018.
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Greyhound closures show it's time for a national transportation network
Rabble - Lois Ross - July 17, 2018
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Western Canada has been largely abandoned by Greyhound, with only one remaining route between Vancouver and Seattle.
How is my aunt in small-town Saskatchewan supposed to get to see her specialist? By ambulance? How are students supposed to get home from university? How is anybody who does not own a car supposed to get around? How are people supposed to contemplate living in small towns when it is so easy to be cut off and isolated?
With this recent announcement, it's urgent for the federal government to fund a national transportation system that links communities in this country, no matter whether those communities are rural or urban. It also needs to consider environmental issues and the renewal of train service.
In previous columns I noted that the network of rail lines should become part of a national, affordable, train network -- enabling people to live in or visit rural areas. This type of investment would send a strong signal to rural people that the federal government understands that not everyone can or wants to live in the middle of Toronto, Vancouver, or even Regina.
Better yet, it would signal that not everyone should -- and that rural economies and the people who work hard to stoke them -- farmers, small businesspeople, dentists, doctors, nurses, community groups -- make a valuable contribution to their communities and to Canada, and have the right to affordable and accessible transportation services.
Of course, Greyhound’s decision is not a huge surprise. Private transportation companies (and even public ones sometimes as in the case of STC) are all about the bottom line and Greyhound’s parent company is in the United States. It is wishful thinking that an American company would even try to understand the Canadian context.
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How Canada's military shapes media coverage of deployments
Rabble - Yves Engler - July 17th, 2018
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For the military, shaping media coverage of deployments is what roasting a marshmallow is to a summer camper's S'mores; there isn't one without the other.
Even before beginning a small "peacekeeping" mission, the Canadian forces have an elaborate media strategy.
At the end of June, Chief of the Defence Staff Jonathan Vance brought journalists with him on a visit to Mali. They toured the facilities in Gao where an advance team was preparing for Canada's UN deployment to the African nation. An Ottawa Citizen headline described Vance's trip as part of an effort at "selling the public on the Mali mission."
The tour for journalists was followed by a "technical briefing" on the deployment for media in Ottawa. "No photography, video or audio recording for broadcast purposes" was allowed at last week's press event, according to the advisory. Reporters were to attribute information to "a senior government" official. But, the rules were different at a concurrent departure ceremony in Trenton. "Canadian Armed Forces personnel deploying to Mali are permitted to give interviews and have their faces shown in imagery," noted the military's release.
None of these decisions are haphazard. With the largest PR machine in the country, the military has hundreds of public affairs officers that work on its media strategy. "The Canadian Forces (CF) studies the news media, writes about them in its refereed journals -- the Canadian Army Journal and the Canadian Military Journal -- learns from them, develops policies for them and trains for them in a systematic way," explains Bob Bergen, a professor at the University of Calgary's Centre for Military and Strategic Studies."Canadian journalists simply do not access the Canadian Forces in the scholarly fashion that the military studies them. There are no peer-reviewed journals to which they contribute reflections on their success or failure as an industry to cover the 1991 Persian Gulf War or the 1999 Kosovo Air War."
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Before Canada can be a leader in international anti-money-laundering, we have to obey the Bank of Canada ACT and stop paying up to $50 Billion a year of interest to Private Banks
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A Response to: Canada could be a leader in international anti-money-laundering efforts
by Andrew (Fu Yuan) Liu - July 11th, 2018 article - Institute for Research on Public Policy
The Bank of Canada ACT made Canada unique from 1938 to 1974. As a public institution, it was mandated to give short term loans to the provinces with 'No interest'. That is right, ‘No interest’.
Canada, consequently was the first country among the G8 to pay off its WWII debt. With no interest, Canada built the St. Lawrence Seaway, highways, railroads, universities, and hospitals right up to 1974. At that time, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau government decided that the 'Bank of Canada ACT' would not be obeyed and made the provinces borrow for projects from the private banking system only. From that year forward, we have being paying $30 to $50 Billion a year of interest. According to Toronto lawyer, Rocco Galati, who took the Federal government to task in 2011, accusing the government of disobeying the Bank ACT, that Canadians have payed $1.1 Trillion dollars of interest (1974-2012) they could have used for local projects, under the Bank of Canada ACT of no interest short term loans.
In 2017, the federal court decided that this was a political matter and dismissed the court case, spearheaded by the Comer group (Comer.org). <1>
This move in 1974, precipitated the rush to privatize everything, since provinces and cities were being downloaded with debt and their source of no interest loans had dried up thanks to the merger of Canadian government and Private Banking policy.
When financed minister's are challenged on this issue, there standard answer is one of, we have to work with in the rules of the world banking system. So does that mean that Canada was a marauder from 1938 to 1974? There answer makes no sense and is a common practice of Orwellian spin that if you say a lie long enough it becomes the truth.
When is our legal system and accounting firms going to get behind the Canadian taxpayer and stop the bleeding of our coffers by the Private Banking Cabal and use these much needed tax dollars to strap cashed projects like, affordable housing, inclusive health care (mental and physical), mass transit, organic food subsidies, and much more?
According to Mr. Galati, the Bank of Canada ACT is still on the books but just not being obeyed. Until this is addressed, Canada is only a leader in anti-money-laundering from the laundering side of the fence as I see it.
Graph of Gross Canadian Government Debt 1867 - 2008 <2>
Audio (38 min) - Interview with Rocco Galati <3>
The Case to “Reinstate” the Bank of Canada
We can't hide from global warming's consequences
Rabble Blogs - David Suzuki - July 17, 2018
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Over the past few months, heat records have broken worldwide. In early July, the temperature in Ouargla, Algeria, reached 51.3 C, the highest ever recorded in Africa. Temperatures in the eastern and southwestern United States and southeastern Canada have also hit record highs. In Montreal, people sweltered under temperatures of 36.6 C, the highest ever recorded there, as well as record-breaking extreme midnight heat and humidity, an unpleasant experience shared by people in Ottawa. Dozens of people have died from heat-related causes in Quebec alone.
Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East have also reached all-time record temperatures. In Northern Siberia, along the Arctic coast, the temperature was over 32 C on July 5, much hotter than ever recorded.
Unusually high temperatures in the Arctic are causing sea ice to melt, exposing more dark sea areas, which absorb more heat than ice, causing feedback loops. Those are exacerbated by melting permafrost releasing more methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. All of it is weakening the polar jet stream, which in turn affects temperatures in mid-latitudes.
As U.S. meteorologist and geoscientist Nick Humphrey explains, "The weakening is causing the polar jet to become much wavier, with greater wave 'breaks' and blocking patterns where waves sit in the same place for weeks [and] promote extreme weather patterns (extreme cold relative to normal as well as extreme heat, very wet, and drought conditions)."
Atmospheric carbon dioxide has spiked to 408 parts per million, global average temperatures have risen 1.8 C since 1880, Arctic ice is declining at 13.2 per cent per decade, sea levels are rising 3.2 millimetres a year on average and it's all accelerating as we continue to pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and destroy more carbon sinks like forests and wetlands.
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The Joyless Council (Ottawa City Hall)
by Clive Doucet - July 20th, 2018
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After eight years away from City Hall, I returned to watch the debate over the three record heights proposed for buildings close to the new transit stop in Hintonburg. The tallest is set to be 65 stories. It was the last meeting before the summer break and the room was packed with
staff, councilors and even the stands had people watching. Being the last meeting I expected some comfortable buzz; some conversation and sense of occasion. It was about as happy as people sitting quietly in their pews for a funeral to begin.
The 65 story height extensions in Hintonburg are so clearly contrary to the community’s development plan and the zoning that there should have generated verbal fireworks. Five councilors did oppose it with the Mayor’s majority, sixteen voting for it. Councillor McKenney’s motions attempted to put some humanity into the buildings loading zone and to create some affordable housing within the tower. All her motions were neatly eviscerated by a well prepared game of tennis between the
Mayor, planning staff and his supporting cast of developer friendly councilors.
The councilors opposing it made good points that the buildings were clearly, completely out of scale with the neighorhoods around them and modern environmental standards which require more than population. High rises of this size are increasingly seen as heating and cooling sinks. Nor are they needed in Ottawa. To be brief, sustainable cities are not created by building massive buildings and then building the city out into the surrounding country with low rise. The densest cities in the world are mid-rise, not high rise and they have with lots of parks and green spaces and public facilities e.g. Paris.
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The latest renderings by TIP Albert GP show the developer's plans to build a three-tower complex with buildings of 65, 56 and 27 storeys at 900 Albert St
Passage of new law ends the debate: Israel now officially an apartheid state
Rabble Blog - Corey Balsam, Sid Shniad - July 20, 2018
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On Thursday, July 19, Israel ceased being a democracy -- even on paper.
Yesterday's passing of the controversial nation-state bill enshrines into Israel's Basic Laws the definition of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, who now possess "an exclusive right to national self-determination in it."
The new law strips Arabic of official language status, defines the establishment of Jewish settlements as being in the "national interest," and states that Jerusalem -- including occupied East Jerusalem -- is the country's "undivided capital."
A range of Jewish organizations in North America have come out against the bill, worried -- for good reason -- about its impact on the nature of Israel and the effect its passage is likely to have on ever-worsening relations between Israel and Jews living in the diaspora. Jerry Silverman, head of Jewish Federations of North America, went so far as to try to stop the bill from passing, warning that it would "ignite and give fuel to the pro-BDS movement, and not play well in our younger generations who are so committed to social justice and equality."
What many onlookers -- including liberal Jews -- don't seem to realize, however, is that this legislation simply enshrines into law what has always been the reality in Israel. Passage of the law merely lifts the veil, shining light on aspects of Israel that its defenders have long tried to downplay. It is this, sadly, that has prompted such outrage both from within the Israeli establishment and among dominant Jewish organizations abroad.
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To sleep or not to sleep
Are we a nation of insomniacs?
Common Ground - Janet Currie - July 12, 2018
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Had trouble sleeping lately? You aren’t alone. In Canada and other comparable countries, insomnia is described as an epidemic and a serious public health problem. A recent study by the insurance company, Aviva, concluded Canada is the third most sleep-deprived country in the world, with nearly a third of Canadians saying they don’t sleep enough.
Media reports tell us a lack of sleep leads to an inability to exercise, overeating and obesity, affecting our work performance and our national economy. A study by the World Association of Sleep Medicine and Rand Europe claims lack of sleep costs the Canadian economy $21.4 billion a year due to lower work productivity.
Even kids aren’t immune to sleep problems. A recent Canadian ParticipAction report card reports a “sleepidemic” among children. The Canadian Sleep Society estimates about 30% of all children may have sleep problems. My quick scan of Amazon book titles found at least six popular books on methods parents can use to help their children sleep.
A study done in the US found the number of adults visiting their doctors for sleep problems doubled from 2.5 million in 1993 to 5.7 million in 2007. Insomnia diagnoses increased seven-fold and prescriptions for sleeping pills increased 30 times.
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A Brave New Way to Fund Journalism
By Bryan Carney 20 Jul 2018 | TheTyee.ca
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Project taps ‘attention economy’ to let you pay for the information you actually use.
Publications in Canada and abroad are trying a find ways to survive as ad revenues plummet.
StarMetro, which recently re-launched as a unified version of the former Toronto Star and various Metro offices across the country, is the latest to try a paywall to make readers subscribe and increase revenues.
The Tyee, like The Guardian, has chosen to seek direct support from readers. Support from readers is our fastest-growing revenue stream, more than doubling in the past four years.
Most of that declining ad revenue has been lost to Facebook and Google, the current clear winners in the competitive “attention economy.” They don’t create content, they simply sell advertisers access to you, based on their craftily collected information on your interests and activities.
But what if there was a way to capture revenue for content creators — like news outlets — based on the amount of attention paid to each, without relying on such third parties or even advertisers?
That’s what the founders of the Basic Attention Token (BAT) have set out to do.
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Trudeau's pledge to re-engage with Iran is another broken Liberal promise
Yves Engler - July 23, 2018
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Another Liberal broken promise. Before becoming prime minister, Justin Trudeau promised to re-engage with Iran. His government has failed to do so and is beginning to echo the warmongers in Washington and Tel Aviv.
"I would hope that Canada would be able to reopen its mission [in Tehran]," Trudeau told the CBC in June 2015. "I'm fairly certain that there are ways to re-engage [Iran]," he said.
Nearly three years into their mandate the Liberals haven't restarted diplomatic relations with Iran. Nor has Trudeau removed that country from Canada's state sponsor of terrorism list. Syria is the only other country on the list.
Numerous Canadian sanctions targeting Iran remain and Ottawa continues to present a yearly UN resolution critical of the human rights situation in Iran. Similarly, Liberal MPs participate in the annual "Iran Accountability Week" on Parliament Hill, which showcases individuals such as Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which helped kill the nuclear deal and is pushing harsh sanctions against any country doing business with Iran.
Dubowitz is a senior research fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs. In 2015 Global Affairs Canada gave the Munk School's Digital Public Square $9 million to expand an anti-Iranian initiative, which the Trudeau government appears to have maintained.
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BC Government Blamed in Greyhound’s Decision to End Service
The Tyee - by Carlos Oen - July 24, 2018
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No-bid contracts and subsidies to competitor played role, say company and union.
The B.C. government helped kill Greyhound bus service in the province by subsidizing a competitor and denying the company a chance to bid on the contracts, say Greyhound and its union.
Greyhound Canada announced this month that services in the four western provinces will end Oct. 31.
The company cited the falling number of riders in rural communities, the entry of ultra-low-cost carriers, and regulatory constraints.
But it also noted the decision had been promoted by “increased competition from subsidized national and inter-regional passenger transportation services.”
Eric Carr, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1374 which represents 440 workers whose jobs are at risk, says the provincial government’s decision to grant subsidies to one of Greyhound’s competitors in northern B.C. was a final blow that triggered its retreat from the province.
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Scientists perfect technique to boost capacity of computer storage a thousand-fold
Science Daily - University of Alberta - July 23, 2018
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The most dense solid-state memory ever created could soon exceed the capabilities of current computer storage devices by 1,000 times, thanks to a new technique scientists at the University of Alberta have perfected.
"Essentially, you can take all 45 million songs on iTunes and store them on the surface of one quarter," said Roshan Achal, PhD student in Department of Physics and lead author on the new research. "Five years ago, this wasn't even something we thought possible."
The scientists used the same technology they developed to manufacture atomic-scale circuits, which allows for quickly removing or replacing single hydrogen atoms. The technology enables the memory to be rewritable, meaning it could lead to far more efficient types of solid-state drives for computers.
Previous discoveries of atomic-scale computer storage were stable only at extremely low temperatures, but the new memory works at real-world temperatures and can withstand normal use.
Achal works with U of A physics professor Robert Wolkow, a pioneer in the field of atomic-scale physics. Wolkow perfected the nanotip technology that allows scientists to manipulate single atoms on a silicon chip -- a technology he said has now reached a tipping point.
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Trudeau gaslights Canadian women and ignores their safety
TASC - Matthew Behrens - July 26, 2018
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Two weeks ago, a new study by the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability confirmed the state of domestic terrorism against women in this land. A woman is murdered by a man every other day in Canada, with at least 78 known acts of femicide up to July 1 (the numbers are likely higher given that it is based largely on media reports).
A disproportionate number of those murdered were Indigenous women.
That very same day, there was audible silence from the self-proclaimed "feminist" Trudeau government. Instead of declaring that the time had come to finally launch a National Action Plan to End Violence Against Women and Girls (NAP), Trudeau was in Latvia, trying to match the toxic masculinity of Donald Trump by whipping out hundreds of millions of dollars to continue funding Canadian troops to engage in endless war games through the year 2023 against a non-existent threat to the people of this land.
Indeed, instead of showing solidarity with Canadian women, Trudeau chose to show what he and Chrystia Freeland have deemed "solidarity" with the world's leading state terrorist organization, NATO. (As in most things the Trudeau government does, their perverse abuse of language normally associated with the struggles of marginalized and targeted groups like feminism and solidarity co-opts, confuses, and destroys the powerful meaning of such terms.)
The next day, Trudeau and Freeland again chose not to address one of the most serious national security issues facing women in this land, instead announcing that Canada would lead a NATO occupation mission in Iraq. Freeland declared:
"Our first -- and really our only consideration -- was what served the Canadian national interest, what served Canadians, what was appropriate to do for Canada given our role in the world and the very great interest we, as Canadians, have in a functioning, rules-based international order."
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Crimes against Humanity, from Canada to Rome:
A recent, exclusive interview with Kevin Annett (from June 26, 2018) (48 min)
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Kevin delves into the recent attempted arrest of Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis), the roots of Genocide in Canada and globally, the emerging Republic of Kanata, and his life’s lessons.
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Iroquois artifacts uncovered in downtown Montreal date back to 14th century
CTV News - Sunday, July 29, 2018
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Archeologists in Montreal have uncovered Iroquois artifacts that date mostly to around 1375.
Thousands of artifacts – mostly pottery – have been found during an excavation at Peel and Sherbrooke Streets, where digging has been underway since 2016.
Archeologist Roland Tremblay called it a “major discovery.”
“We find their cooking vessels, essentially. But we also find their pipes because they were made out of ceramics,” he told CTV Montreal.
The researchers also found a tooth from a beluga whale. It’s not known what the tooth was used for, although it’s believed it came from relatives down the St. Lawrence River toward Quebec City.
This is not the first time Indigenous treasures have been found at the site. The site was excavated once before after pottery was found in 1859.
Tremblay said that six out of 10 of the radio carbon dates show the artifacts are from the late fourteenth century, around 1375.
“That’s a little mind-boggling so we have to understand why,” Tremblay said. “We’re working on that right now.”
Christine Zachary Deom, a former elected Chief of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, said she thinks the discoveries are “wonderful.”
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Canada’s Military recruits Indigenous Youth
Dissident Voice - by Yves Engler / July 30th, 2018
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Is the Canadian military a friend and ally of First Nations or an exploiter and repressor?
The military’s immense resources and cultural clout certainly enables it to attract indigenous youth to become soldiers. But First Nations have more reason than most to be wary of the Canadian Forces (CF).
A recent Ipolitics story titled “This is where I need to be’: Indigenous military summer programs ‘fantastic’ for young recruits” detailed the CF’s recruitment of Indigenous youth. The article quoted 19-year old Private Brandon Julian saying, “I love Canada … I want to serve this country.”
The story described the Bold Eagle, Raven and Black Bear leadership and training programs for 18-25-year-olds from reserves. Partnering with the Saskatchewan Indian Veteran’s Association and Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, the CF launched Bold Eagle three decades ago. It’s a three or four day “culture camp” conducted by First Nations elders “followed by a military recruit training course.”
Receiving input from its Defence Aboriginal Advisory Group, the CF operates various programs focused on Indigenous youth. CF recruiters participate in National Aboriginal Day events and oversee the Aboriginal Entry Plan, a three-week training. In 1971 the CF introduced the Northern Native Entry Program and the military funded Cadet Corps has long worked with band councils and schools on reserves.
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