Shouting down Margaret Wente in Halifax

Submitted by Asaf Rashid on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 14:56

The name Margaret Wente scarcely needs an introduction to Dominion readers. Please refer to the main Dominion paper site at http://dominionpaper.ca for details of her most recent academically veiled example racism.

Wente was the keynote speaker at the Joseph Howe Symposium organized by the University of King's College School of Journalism and Calgary's Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. This year's event, which took place in Halifax on November 1st, was "The Media's Right to Offend: Exploring Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech".

Fiftieth anniversary of the Springhill Mine disaster

Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 18:46

Today is the 50th anniversary of the third Springhill coal mine disaster.

The CBC has some archival TV footage from the days following the disaster. Seventy four men were killed in the disaster, and 100 miners were trapped underground for almost nine days before being freed.

Prior to the deadly events of 1958, there were two large mine disasters at Nova Scotia's Springhill Mine, one in 1956, and another in 1891.

The Art of Walking

Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 18:44

On July 15, 2007, Eryn Foster started her vacation predictably enough: by walking out of her Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, home and locking the door. Her destination of Sackville, New Brunswick, lay a couple of hundred kilometres away, or about a two-hour drive. But rather than throw a suitcase into the back seat of her car, Foster threw a backpack on and started the first day of New Canadian Pilgrimages.

Only Non-Irving Owned Newspaper in New Brunswick Goes Under

Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 18:42

A press release issued by the Carleton Free Press, less than a year after the small paper began circulation in northern New Brunswick:

Carleton Free Press suspends publication

Citing the downturn in the economy and inability to compete with a chain that has cut its advertising and subscription prices to the bone for the next year, the Carleton FreePress today announced it is suspending publication.

Today’s paper will be the last.

Britannia Board Moves Forward with Olympic Plans

Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 18:20

A contentious meeting last night kept Olympic plans on Commercial Drive moving forward, but as locals stir lattes, trouble is also brewing.

In a move that disappointed the majority of those who packed into a special meeting yesterday, the board of the Britannia Community Centre voted in favour of offering up their ice rink as a hockey practice site during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

Neo-Liberal Sea Change

Submitted by Gwalgen Dent on Sun, 10/26/2008 - 15:35

True, it would be foolish to argue that capitalism is dead and no longer functioning. Capitalism is alive and well, being supported by state-intervention as it always has been.

But these days, we are hearing ideas proposed that would never have been proposed 10 years ago.

Recently, Argentina has proposed nationalizing their pension systems. This only 10 years after a complete collapse of Argentina's economy at the hands of the IMF.

Defenders of the Land

Submitted by Maya on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 20:51

How well does Canada live up to its reputation as a human rights champion? When it comes to the situation of Indigenous people, it falls dreadfully short. Few people know that the Canadian government is regularly and roundly condemned by the United Nations. But Canada doesn't only ignore minimum provisions of international law about rights to self-determination and ownership of traditional territories -- it thinks little of domestic legal standards set by the Supreme Court.

Canada, a Pariah State?

Submitted by Maya on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 18:58

How well does Canada live up to its reputation as a human rights champion? When it comes to the situation of Indigenous people, it falls dreadfully short. Few people know that the Canadian government is regularly and roundly condemned by the United Nations. But Canada doesn't only ignore minimum provisions of international law about rights to self-determination and ownership of traditional territories -- it thinks little of domestic legal standards set by the Supreme Court.

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