Apr 182015
 
2015-04-15   UPDATE TPP:  A Trade Rule that Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That And More, David Korten

We have been engaged in the battle over the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) since October 2012.   Americans, Canadians, and people in the “Partnership” countries are fighting it.  It is a deal for corporations, at terrible expense to citizens. Julian Assange (Wikileaks) published the early leaks about the TPP. Our American colleagues have been successful in fighting down one aspect of […]

Mar 072015
 
2015-03-06   We Canadians get to gift Exxon/Mobil  $17.3 million!  (compliments of NAFTA)

ExxonMobil is the operator of the Hibernia oil project off Newfoundland’s east coast.   CBC NOTE:  the Atlantic Accord under which the R&D money was to go to the Province has been in place since 1985, for 25 years.  Would they not have known about it? ALSO – there’s the list of other even more egregious […]

Jan 142015
 
2015-01-14  FTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals, Huffington Post

by Sunny Freeman The AbitibiBowater saw mill in Mackenzie, British Columbia May 15, 2008. The pulp-and-paper company won the largest settlement against Canada under NAFTA investor-state dispute mechanisms: $130 million. | CP  Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country’s […]

Nov 152013
 

The Trans-PACIFIC Partnership (TPP). Canadians and Americans are together in the same trade deal with Asian countries (unlike Europe –  two separate (but same) deals).   People scrambling – today Wikileaks released draft text.  From Malaysian perspective: 2013-11-14 Leaked Asia trade text sees US backing firms, The Malaysian Insider.   There is pandemonium on both […]

Nov 152013
 

                                                                 It’s   worse – much worse – than we thought. A bombshell leak by Wikileaks just   revealed how giant U.S. conglomerates are about to impose an extreme Internet   censorship plan that will wreck Canada’s […]

Nov 142013
 

There are trade deals to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific! Pacific:  Canada and the U.S. are in the same trade deal, the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) – – news of leaked text is below. Atlantic:  see  2013-11-09  Contrast: Transatlantic Trade Deals (CETA & TTIP) vs “We Are Living in the World Occupy Made”   Leaked Asia trade […]

Nov 092013
 

. . .  treat(ies) that would let rapacious companies subvert our laws, rights and national sovereignty (de-confuse CETA, TTIP and TTP, just 3 of the trade deals): CETA,  the trade deal between Canada & Europe, the  Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement  See   http://www.canadians.org/search/node/CETA TTIP:  The equivalent deal, but between the US & Europe is the […]

Nov 092013
 
2013-11-04  (Canadians: we will be paying Eli Lilly $500M.  Wake up & rise up!) "This transatlantic trade deal is a full-frontal assault on democracy", The Guardian, George Monbiot.

. . .  a treaty that would let rapacious companies subvert our laws, rights and national sovereignty CETA:  The trade deal between Canada & Europe is the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ref  http://www.canadians.org/search/node/CETA)   TTIP:  The equivalent deal, but between US & Europe is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership   (Wish I had time […]

Oct 132013
 

If time is short, just catch the video at this link: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/10/13/cummins-gmo-labeling.aspx?e_cid=20131013Z1_SNL_Art_1&utm_source=snl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20131013Z1   I recommend going to the above URL, even though for back-up purposes,  I copied the article – it is a good, comprehensive look at the problem: By Dr. Mercola  Between October 18 and November 5 the next big GMO-labeling vote will take place in the […]

Jun 132013
 

Please go to the URL.  http://www.organicconsumers.org/   I don’t have time to fix the formatting in the copy that follows the large blank space:                                                                                                                                                                                              ESSAY OF THE WEEK Consumer Alert: […]