Why is Canada pushing commercialization of sterile seed technology?  Speak up to the PM, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (ugh!) head of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

On March 17, 2005, the Ethical Trading Action Group will sponsor a forum in Toronto on the impact of the end of import quotas on the garment workers and the garment industry.   I don't have  URL for the forum, but you can write to info@maquilasolidarity.org for more information.

Think twice about the flowers for your valentine.

Instead support the International Fair Labour Rights Fairness in Flowers Campaign. 

Over 10 years ago the UN urged Canada to stop violating the rights of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation in northern Alberta.  You can join the campaign to support them.

Steven Harper is trying to rally immigrant communities to oppose to same-sex marriage - I suppose he'll keep quiet about little things like his opposition to allowing Sikh RCMP officers to wear turbans in uniform.  If you want to weigh in with your MP on the issue.

March 19 is the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Join the International Days of Action Against War, March 19 - 21

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is a national media-watch group in the US.   To find out what's wrong with the news

"Education, entertainment, training – they're all the same thing," to the military and private tech contractors are training a new generation of soldiers.

Examples of "collateral damage" in Iraq.

Will the NAFTA labour side agreement hold the Mexican government accountable for workers' rights violations in Puebla?  For information and analysis click here

Here's the resumé of another "smalltown cheap" golfer.

Bill Moyers:  "...the delusional is no longer marginal...For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington." 

Paul Krugman argues that Bush's budget "shower[s] largesse on millionaires even as it punishes the needy."  Are we surprised?

Bob Herbert on "Torture, American style."

Senator Robert Byrd on the nomination of US Attorney General Alberto González, who apparently sees now harm in torture nor in having a President place himself above the law.

Paul Craig Roberts says there is, "Nothing to Fear but Bush Himself."