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Peak Water Has Already Come and Gone
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 22, 2011 (IPS) – Canadian Kevin Freedman is celebrating World Water Day Tuesday by living on 25 litres of water a day, instead of the North American average of 330 litres per day. And he has enlisted 31 others in his "Water [...]
Banks’ Cheap Money is Economic ‘Poison’
March 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Read the article in its original form on alrroya.com Thursday, 10 March 2011 at 09:39 By Ron Robins, Founder & Analyst – Investing for the Soul Developed world bankers continue to proclaim that enforced low interest rates—cheap money—will lead their countries back to economic prosperity. But didn’t the same policies [...]
CANADA: A Govt Versus Its People on Climate Change
November 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Nov 19, 2010 (IPS) – The Canadian public is completely at odds with its own government on climate change, a new survey revealed Friday. A large majority of Canadians want urgent action on climate, including redirecting military expenditures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In [...]
Canada’s Endorsement of Indigenous Rights Significant
November 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By J Chandler IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TORONTO (IDN) – Canada’s endorsement of the global treaty outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous peoples has been welcomed by the head of a United Nations body dealing with the issue. Carlos Mamani, Chair of the UN Permanent [...]
Canada’s Parliament Buckles under Weight of Mining Industry
November 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Paul Weinberg TORONTO, Nov 8, 2010 (IPS) – The corporate clout of the mining industry trumped political ideology in Canada when members of all political parties helped to narrowly defeat a bill late last month that would have imposed standards on Canadian mining companies operating in developing [...]
Canada Seeks to Drop Native Peoples from New Biodiversity Pact
October 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 21, 2010 (IPS) – Blame Canada if countries fail to agree to a new binding treaty to curb the rapid loss of plant, animal and species that form the intricate web of life that sustains humanity. That is the view of indigenous [...]
Arctic Ice in Death Spiral
September 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 20, 2010 (IPS) – The carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilisation, dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting. [...]
Canada and 19 Others Yet to Ban Foreign Bribery
August 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Erna Wolf IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Countries representing more than half of world exports have taken appropriate action in the last six years to combat corruption and enforced a ban on foreign bribery. But 20 countries have yet to put into effect the convention. These include [...]
Canada Coming With Worse Than Oil
July 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jul 19, 2010 (IPS) – Fears of a trade dispute with Canada have made European Union officials reluctant to categorise tar sands from North America as a more polluting fuel than conventional petrol. Officials working for the EU’s executive, the European Commission, are considering [...]
