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Comment by truth on April 6, 2010 at 10:00am

Canadian dollar hits parity vs. U.S. dollar

The Canadian dollar rose to one-for-one footing with the U.S. currency on Tuesday, hitting its strongest level since July 2008, boosted by rising commodity prices and expectations for higher domestic interest rates.

At 7:38 a.m. (1138 GMT), the Canadian dollar was at C$1.0008, or 99.92 U.S. cents. Earlier, the currency rose to C$0.9999 to the U.S. dollar or $1.0001.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100406/business/cbusiness_us_mar...

Comment by truth on March 14, 2010 at 9:08pm

Anti-Semitism: silencing the messenger of truth with Canada’s “hate...

William A. Cook recounts how Canadian Zionists, in the form of B’nai B’rith of Canada, cast aspersions on his personal and professional character because he had dared to highlight the genocidal actions of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his successors.

Comment by truth on March 4, 2010 at 1:22pm

U.S. will determine who can board some Canadian flights
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Starting in December, some passengers on Canadian airlines flying to, from or even over the United States without ever landing there, will only be allowed to board the aircraft once the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined they are not terrorists.
Secure Flight, the newest weapon in the U.S. war on terrorism, gives the United States unprecedented power over who can board planes that fly over U.S. airspace. http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/gets+which+Canadians/2639893/st...

Comment by DallasBC on February 26, 2010 at 1:58am

Enough is Enough, Already!

By: Paul Hellyer, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Founder
of Canadian Action Party

A Note from Paul Hellyer to all Canadians

This is a column that I did the papers didn't use - probably because of the blunt forthright language. I only wish the whole country could read it. It is my hope that you will ask CAPers to write the PM, the Leader of the Official Opposition, Mr. Dion, and their own MP urging them to act before it is too late. As I say in the article, it is not just for the good of Canada, though that is reason enough, it is to stop the formation of world oligopolies that fix prices to rip off the public the way oil companies have done.

Enough is enough, already! The Government of Canada must say no to any takeover of Alcan, and the sale of BCE to the vultures, and they must do so immediately. Not to do so will be a treasonous failure to act in the best interests of Canada. The same "no" must apply to any future billion dollar transactions which cannot be proven to be of significant tangible benefit to Canada and the Canadian people.



Not long ago it was INCO and Falconbridge. Now, in addition to Alcan and BCE, it is IPSCO and Lion Ore. The carnage has got to stop! Period! If it isn't, this wonderful, resource-based country will have been sold down the river and we might just as well give up on any thought of there being a Canada, or at least a Canada of any significance, a few years from now.



There are four reasons why Canada must put an end to the sale of its major assets. First, to stem the loss of executive jobs. Second, to slow down the reduction in blue chip Canadian stocks for Canadians to invest in. Third, to stem the loss of tax revenue necessary to support Canada's generous social security net. Fourth, and probably most important in the long run, to address the trend toward worldwide oligarchies which is wrong, very very wrong, and which must be reversed and the sooner the better.



For years Canadians have been worried about the brain drain. It would be interesting to add up the number of executive jobs that have been lost in the last fifteen years as a result of the 13,000 or more Canadian companies that have been bought by foreigners. When the head offices move, as they inevitably do, the top executive jobs move with them.



It is also interesting to note how many former Canadian companies have been delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange. My modest portfolio used to include INCO, Falconbridge, the forest giant MacMillan Bloedel and a number of other blue chip companies that have been sold to foreigners. The list of mature Canadian stocks to invest in is shrinking fast.



It is no secret that when head offices move the new management usually contrive to apply fees, royalties and other charges that minimize the taxable Canadian profits. The Canada Revenue Agency does its best to stem the outward flow but it is a constant struggle.



Finally, the whole trend to "bigger is better" has to be arrested and then reversed. What we are seeing is a repetition on a global scale of the consolidation of power and wealth that took place in the United States in the late nineteenth century. The robber barons of that day, led by John D. Rockefeller Sr., didn't like competition, and admitted it. So they bought up or merged with their competitors to eradicate the nuisance.



Political philosophers in the early twentieth century recognized that what had happened was not in the public interest. The rich people lauded the wondrous advantages of a market economy while deliberately and methodically undermining those alleged advantages by forming oligopolies and monopolies in restraint of trade. So the politicians of the day acted to increase competition by breaking up some of the biggest of the big.



In the post World War II era, some of the grandsons of the monopolists, in concert with some of the greediest of their greedy "cousins" in other countries, decided that what had worked for their grandpas more than a century ago might work again at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. This time, however, no one country was big enough to satisfy their ambitions so their business plans call for global rather than just national dominance.



Amazingly they have managed to convince the majority that their plans are both inevitable and good when in fact they are neither. Success to date has depended on naive politicians being intimidated by public servants afflicted with incurable cases of mondialitis, which has spread with the rapidity of a pandemic. So, like a pandemic, the disease has to be stamped out before too many small economies end up in the economic morgue.



I tried to find a nicer word than treasonous to describe what is going on, but to no avail. It is time to call a spade a spade and let our politicians – and the "experts" who advise them - know in no uncertain terms that we will hold them accountable for their unforgivable negligence. They can still rewrite their epitaphs, but only if they act at once.

Comment by truth on February 17, 2010 at 1:19am

'An attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada'

Junior Foreign Affairs minister Peter Kent is suggesting Canada stands ready to throw its full military weight behind Israel, telling a Toronto publication that “an attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada.”

Comment by truth on January 22, 2010 at 1:10pm

A Message From Transport Canada

Comment by truth on January 8, 2010 at 3:54pm

Canada ordered airline scanners months ago --Scanner technology was in the works well before events in recent weeks 06 Jan 2010 Transport Minister John Baird told CTV's Canada AM on Wednesday morning that Canada chose to pursue the high-tech scanner technology months ago, putting an order in to manufacturers "before the United States were in the queue...and before some of the countries in Europe." He said the scanner technology was in the works well before the events in recent weeks, leaving Canadian authorities well-informed about the practical concerns of implementing them at nationwide airports. "This is something we've been working on for about 15 months," said Baird

Comment by truth on December 24, 2009 at 6:16pm

Flaherty Says Russia, China May Buy Canada Dollars

Comment by truth on December 23, 2009 at 8:02pm

Cancer-fighting additive weighed for junk food
December 22, 2009
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/22/acrylamide-junk-food-addi...

Canada is investigating whether to approve a cancer-fighting additive's use in junk food, but Health Canada wants consumers to weigh in on the idea first.

Comment by truth on November 4, 2009 at 7:56pm

10 Times More Thimerosal in Canadian Non-Adjuvanted H1N1 Vaccine

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