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Blog posts September 2008

A call to all Canadians to join in the discussion about our Election. The top political parties and media are leading us into a deep expensive trap. It is easy to talk about a "greener Canada" or makes promises for "better jobs" as they are doing. These same people gave Canadians the "opportunity...

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Just how much is all this climate change talk going to cost the Canadian taxpayer? Is it actually climate change or is it 'pollution' clean up? Who polluted the water, land and air? Who cut down all the forests and never replanted the trees they took? Why are the Canadian taxpayers now being ask...

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This is a series of questions to the Liberal Party of Canada for the upcoming Canadian Federal Election. All of the questions are based on the information handed out in the Liberal Green Shift Plan. The first video addresses a number of points while each following video will address only one spec...

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International Day of Peace

Teaming up with a range of actors, from artists and students, to cell phone companies and chess enthusiasts, the United Nations is celebrating the International Day of Peace, which this year holds special meaning since 2008 also marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declarat...

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World Hunger tops 900,000,000

Rising prices have plunged an additional 75 million people below the hunger threshold, bringing the estimated number of undernourished people worldwide to 923 million in 2007, FAO said today.   High food prices have reversed the previously positive trend towards achieving the Millennium Developm...

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Freedom of News and Information

On the eve of the European Union-Central Asia security summit which the French government, the current holder of the EU rotating presidency, is hosting tomorrow in Paris, Reporters Without Borders draws attention to the lack of press freedom in Central Asia, especially Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan...

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The Art of Doing Nothing?

A friend of mine recently became angry over the idleness of a 19-year-old male. "He's doing nothing." he said bitterly.   Road rage, office rage, and even relationship rage are familiar to us. But now idleness rage has emerged. Frequently I hear people complain about the idleness of young people...

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Human Trafficking

The OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Eva Biaudet, urged OSCE participating States today to put victims' rights at the center when investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases. "The victim-centred approach means taking the needs of the trafficking ...

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Civilian casualties and destruction resulted from the Georgian artillery and tank attack on Tskhinvali 7-8 August. Georgian villages north of the regional capital were destroyed and pillaged by South Ossetian militia and criminal gangs. Though some inhabitants had begun to leave during the preced...

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NATO Nuclear Weapons

Europe is heavily armed with nuclear weapons. Both Britain and France possess their own nuclear forces and the United States has a long history of keeping nuclear weapons on European soil. Britain’s nuclear force is estimated at under 200 weapons, with approximately 150 deployed on four Vanguard ...

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Zare is the sixth juvenile offender Iran has executed this year. No other country is known to have executed a juvenile offender in 2008. Since January 2005, Iran has executed at least 26 juvenile offenders. During the same period, only four other countries – Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, and Pakist...

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