By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him ” a success story” like the softwood lumber deal would “shore up” his ability to stay in office without appearing to “sell out to […]
The census dilemma
By Alison@Creekside Do we fill it in nicely to show our solidarity with StatsCan and their important data-gathering, currently under siege by the Cons, or do we fill it in using really big crayons and attached pictures of cluster bomb victims to protest its having been farmed out once again to war profiteer and surveillance/espionage […]
Wikileaked: The “incremental approach” to CanAmerica
By Alison@Creekside I guess everyone has their favorite US Ambassador to Canada. Mine has always been Paul Cellucci, who once suggested building huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US and worried in 2008 that the election of Obama would “imperil the future economic integration of the continent.” Last month WikiLeaks released one of Cellucci’s […]
Rumours of its death . . .
By Alison@Creekside Just three months shy of 2010 — the date by which the Canadian Council of Chief Executives originally projected the goals of the SPP would be completed — some people have been mourning and others celebrating for years already. The SPP is dead (a short history): Oct. 10, 2007 “The Security and Prosperity […]
Your water is our water
By Alison@Creekside Bob alerts us to this CBC headline : Canada, U.S. will renegotiate Great Lakes water treaty “Canada and the United States will renegotiate the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday in Niagara Falls, Ont.“Clinton, who was joined by Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, crossed the border for […]
BC’s watershed election
By Alison@Creekside “Environmental blah blah” is how retiring NDP MLA Corky Evans describes the privatization of B.C.’s waterways under the guise of addressing climate change. So-called “green” run of river hydro projects, also known as independent power projects or IPPs, divert water into a pipe several kilometres long and then into a turbine before returning […]
Stephen Harper, conspiracist
By Alison@Creekside Once upon a time the NAFTA Superhighway/Trade Corridor was just a conspiracy theory. Then it was a gleam in Manitoba Premier Gary Doer’s eye. From his 2007 Speech from the Throne : “Manitoba is also taking a major role in the development of a Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, connecting our northern Port of Churchill […]
They stand on guard for we
We are so obsessed with the lunatic antics of George Bush that we forget to monitor the more boring yet equally dangerous (at least, to us) actions of our own government. Last month, on Valentines Day, the Canadian and US militaries signed an agreement allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed […]
Harper’s one-man band
by guest blogger Alison@Creekside Gomery says Canada is on the road to “one-man government.”Ya think?! From Buckdog : Parliament isn’t working due to Liberals sitting on their hands From Hill Times : Legislation isn’t passing due to Cons filibustering committees. Con candidates and MPs are muzzled, government-employed scientists must get statements about their work vetted […]
Plumping for the SPP
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside After it became clear that the main result of the Security and Prosperity Partnership meet-up in Montebello was to alert Canadians to the fact that their country’s sovereignty was in deep shit, deep integration’s best friends were unanimous in their tough love advice to the ailing SPP’s enablers. Tom d’Aquino of […]
