Argentinian activists take on Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold

Canada’s role in looting developing countries while contaminating ecosystems and violating rights through its unchecked mining operations is well known.
In fact, bowing to public pressure, in June 2005, the Canadian government hosted a year-long series of roundtables on corporate social responsibility and the Canadian extractive industry in developing countries. Brought  together were industry reps, human [...]

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What would it take to make pork eaters care?

I missed the deadline on an alert to recommend tougher fire building codes for Manitoba’s farm animal facilities but want to bring up the issue of fires in pig confinement operations (factory farms).

First, could pork eaters reading this look at this photo and think about the sow shown here spending her life imprisoned in this [...]

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Simmering in the Soil

A quote from an article by author Edward Hoagland, age 76, published in Harper’s Magazine, March 2009

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100 reasons not to celebrate “Canada Day”

It was “Canada Day” yesterday, a national holiday celebrated by many and touted as “Canada’s birthday.”
I certainly wasn’t feeling the least bit celebratory and after reading a post from Peace, Earth and Justice, a group based out of BC, I can see that I wasn’t alone.
Here it is: Canada Day 2009: 100 Reasons Not to [...]

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