By Alison@Creekside In the House on Monday, Liberal trade critic Scott Brison defended Bill C-23, the Canada Colombia free trade agreement thusly: “If we isolate Colombia in the Andean region and leave Colombia exposed and vulnerable to the ideological attacks of Chavez’s Venezuela, we will be allowing evil to flourish.” Oooh – two Bush cat’s […]
Canada sides with the Generals
By Alison@Creekside On June 28th, 200 soldiers of the Honduran military kidnapped the president, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, and flew him to Costa Rica. His attempted return five days ago was unsuccessful. The coup d’etat was roundly condemned by the UN, the EU, the Organization of American States, and rather more tepidly by the USA. The […]
Manufacturing dissent
Two images that hit the media in the last two weeks really creeped me out: Hugo Chavez shutting down an opposition television station in Venezuela and a scene of Shia schoolgirls in Sadr City, a Shia suburb of Baghdad, learning English by rote. There is a lot to like about Hugo Chavez. He is a […]
