Stockwell Day's office has been telling journalists that it cannot comment on the minister's private meeting and that journalists should understand this. So much for accountability.
While the media were busy obsessing over rumours of a budding romance between Condoleezza Rice and Peter MacKay last week, a more significant relationship was developing behind closed doors.
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It was late fall in the Southern Hemisphere, and night temperatures Read more
The U.S. is being identified by all as responsible for the collapse of talks, by its refusal Read more
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And African Americans get gassed. Largely urban, we pay the highest part of our incomes in home heating and cooling bills, living in old buildings often with miserable insulation. But we are locked out of much of the industry as it consolidates.
Americans ought to be up Read more
The last time this happened was in the 1970s, when economic liberalism foundered and collapsed. Ossified Read more
CURITIBA, Brazil - Emotions and sensitivity are "the essence, the core dimension of the human being," said the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff at a panel on "ethics, biodiversity and sustainability". The panel formed part of the Global Civil Society Forum, held parallel to the Mar. 20-31 Eighth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP8).
It is not reason but feeling that is involved in our first contact with reality, and "today's great crisis is not economic, political or religious, but a crisis of affect, of the capacity to feel a connection with
Read moreIn the last couple of years, bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs) have become immensely popular with governments disillusioned by the slow pace of trade liberalisation talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). At present there are over 200 FTA negotiating processes under way across the globe. While ostensibly aimed at breaking down trade barriers, these agreements are increasingly targeting indigenous peoples' and local communities' traditional knowledge in very real ways.
Traditional knowledge has come up in a dozen or so FTA drafting processes over the last
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