News From the Bourgeois Press
International
International Economy - March 3, 2010
3/3/2010Britain grapples with debt of Greek proportions
‘If you really want a fiscal problem, look at the U.K.'
Landon Thomas Jr., London - The New York Times News Service, Mar. 03, 2010
International Politics - February 17, 2010
2/17/2010Missile threat signals U.S./Russia reset strains
Moldova's rebel region of Transdniestria said on Monday it was ready to host Russian tactical missiles if the Kremlin were to ask, escalating growing tensions about defence between Moscow and Washington.
Conor Sweeney, ReutersFebruary 15, 2010
International Economy - February 17, 2010
2/17/2010Greece pleads for time at debt talks
‘We're trying to change the course of the Titanic, it cannot be done in a day,' says Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou
Jan Strupczewski and Marcin Grajewski, Brussels – Reuters, Feb. 15, 2010
International - February 10, 2010
2/10/2010Europe's once-booming Baltics sink deep
But many are okay with the state of affairs as once fast-growing economies choose austerity over stimulus
Nerijus Adomaitis and Patrick Lannin, Vilnius and Riga – Reuters, Feb. 10, 2010
Labour
March 1, 2010 - Labour
3/1/2010Aveos layoffs to top 1,000
More than 200 of job cuts at former Air Canada Technical Services expected to be permanent, union leader says
Brent Jang, Globe and Mail, Mar. 01, 2010
Labour - February 26, 2010
2/26/2010Europe's workers pushing back
Strikes spread as workers fear for their hard-earned comforts as governments and companies tighten belts to stay solvent
Jamey Keaten, Paris - The Associated Press, Feb. 23, 2010
Labour - February 10, 2010
2/10/2010Greek workers ‘give their reply' with strike
Tame strikes ground flights, shut schools, stop garbage collection in country used to mass protests
Eric Reguly, Athens - Globe and Mail, Feb. 10, 2010
Farming
Farming - February 17, 2010
2/17/2010Yara buys Terra for $4.1-billion
Norway's biggest-ever foreign takeover will create world's largest mineral fertilizer maker
Wojciech Moskwa and Joergen Frich, Oslo – Reuters, Feb. 15, 2010
Energy
Energy - March 3, 2010
3/3/2010Korean deal with EnCana bodes well for LNG
The biggest winner in the farm-in agreement between EnCana Corp. and Korea Gas involving EnCana's Montney and Horn River acreage has to be the Kitimat LNG terminal.
Deborah Yedlin, Calgary Herald, March 2, 2010
March 1, 2010 - Energy
3/1/2010Encana strikes $1 billion deal with Korean Gas
Korean Gas Corp., the world’s largest liquefied natural gas importer, has agreed to explore unconventional gas properties in northeastern British Columbia as part of a farm-in deal with EnCana Corp. company officials confirmed Monday.
Shaun Polczer, Calgary HeraldMarch 1, 2010
Energy - February 26, 2010
2/26/2010The art of defusing the green protests
The forest industry once knew the difficulties of being pegged as an environmental ogre. It solved the conflict by treating the opposition as equals. Can the storm in the oil sands be calmed in the same way?
Nathan VanderKlippe, Calgary - Globe and Mail, Feb. 25, 2010
Energy - February 17, 2010
2/17/2010‘Massive glut' blamed for holding back oil prices
Supply is still outpacing demand, says TD Bank
David Parkinson , Globe and Mail, Feb. 12, 2010
Energy - February 10, 2010
2/10/2010Alberta aims for deficit-free 2012, with help from oilsands
Alberta is counting on optimistic energy-price increases to escape its deficit by 2012, with royalties from the oilsands doing a majority of the heavy lifting.
Dave Cooper, edmontonjournal.com, February 9, 2010
Huge oilsands expansion gets green light
Surmont project expected to create up to 2,500 construction jobs, 300 permanent positions
Dave Cooper, edmontonjournal.com, January 20, 2010
Mining
March 1, 2010 - Mining
3/1/2010Thompson Creek looking for US$1B in buys
Thompson Creek Metals Co., the operator of two molybdenum mines in North America, said it may spend more than US$1-billion for acquisitions to benefit from a rebound in demand for the metal used to strengthen steel.
Rob Delaney, Bloomberg, March 01, 2010
National
March 1, 2010 - National (The Arctic)
3/1/2010China stepping up for Arctic influence: report
China is stepping up efforts to secure a role in deciding the future of Arctic issues such as shipping and energy extraction, as melting ice raises hopes of a shorter shipping route to the Atlantic, a report said on Monday.
Emma Graham-Harrison, Reuters, March 1, 2010
David Akin, Canwest News Service, August 18, 2009
International Trade - February 10, 2010
2/10/2010Canada has first yearly deficit since 1975
Country posts $4.8-billion trade deficit in 2009, a reversal of fortunes from its $46.9-billion year-earlier surplus
Tavia Grant - Globe and Mail, Feb. 10, 2010
Stats Canada International Trade Report
Economics
March 1, 2010 - Economy (Federal Budget 2010)
3/1/2010Pressure grows for Bank of Canada to hike rates
Pressure on the Bank of Canada to move early on raising interest rates mounted Monday after data on fourth-quarter gross domestic product suggested the economy is roaring its way out of recession after recording the fastest pace of growth in nearly a decade.
Paul Vieira, Financial Post, March 1, 2010
Economy - February 17, 2010
2/17/2010Household mortgage debt hits record
Families – especially first-time buyers – ‘may not fully realize what an increase in mortgage rates will mean for their monthly payments,' study says
Tavia Grant, Toronto - Globe and Mail, Feb. 16, 2010
Alberta Budget - February 10, 2010
2/10/2010Rowdy opening to spring session
Tory backbencher takes education minister to task over firing school board
Trish Audette, edmontonjournal.com, February 9, 2010
Canada-US Relations
Canada-US Relations - February 17, 2010
2/17/2010Campbell and U.S. state heads vow to co-operate on environment, economic development
Pacific Coast Collaborative holds inaugural meeting
The governments of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California on Friday vowed to co-operate on addressing climate change and a broad range of initiatives related to environmental conservation and economic development.
Vancouver Sun, February 12, 2010
Military
Military - February 26, 2010
2/26/2010MARKET FOR UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS TO CLIMB TO $18 BILLION; GLOBAL HAWK AND PREDATOR DOMINATE
Larry Dickerson, an industry analyst with Forecast International, is predicting that over the next ten years more than 9,000 UAS (aka unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs) will be built, with a staggering value of almost $18 billion U.S. An additional $20 billion U.S. will be pumped into UAS research, he estimates in an analysis for Aviation Week and Space Technology.
BY DAVID PUGLIESE, OTTAWA CITIZEN, February 17, 2010
AKEL Bulletin No 29
Strike Called by PAME on March 5th in Greece
Obama Hosts Dalai Lama Paid CIA Agent
The Latest From FOS:
- International
The Way I See It - Afghanistan Revisited
Those of us who support CPA, including the members of CPS assert that anti-Sovietism was and continues to be pro-war and anti-peace. During the darkest days of the cold-war when the threat of nuclear war loomed over the planet, the Soviet Union was the main force of restraint over the worst of the US imperialist reactionary forces thirsting for war.
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- Federal Politics
Prime Minister Harper (Assisted by Jim Flaherty and Peter Van Loan) Leads the Whole World Forward To the New “Enlightened Sovereignty” of the 21st Century
Prime Minister Harper’s address to the World Economic Forum (WEF)[1] in Davos Switzerland January 28, 2010 can’t be dismissed as just unctuous and vapid; it was worse than that. Harper adopting his familiar and grating patronizing manner underwhelmed the elite audience of capitalist intellectual luminaries, by suggesting that minority Conservative Government economic policies under Harper’s leadership is the example the nations of the world must follow to emerge triumphant from the worst capitalist depression since the market crash of October 1929.
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- Federal Politics
Organized Labour and the Politics of the Class Struggle Today
A Convention of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) is always a significant event in the struggle of the working class to defeat capitalism and replace it with socialism. Only the Communists strive to take responsibility for the whole revolutionary process underway in our own country and globally. Every revolutionary class conscious worker is concerned that the Communist Party becomes strengthened and more effective in fulfilling its historic responsibilities to the working class of Canada and all of its peoples and for the victorious outcome of the cause of the International Communist Movement.
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- Federal Politics
The Way I See It! - Some Critical Comments
The main link that can move the entire political process forward is a clearly articulated and unambiguous revolutionary working class program to confront US-Canadian corporate power and its stranglehold on Parliament, the State, the military and the economy. That task must be the main theme of the upcoming 36th Convention of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). From the convention an appeal that reaches out to all of organized labour and the democratic forces of our country with a plan to unite electorally to defeat Harper, and decisively, will be influential within labour and garner widespread appeal with Canadian workers. That is a concentration task and if it is solved, the organizational tactics to achieve it can be worked out.
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- Energy
Canadian Workers Labour 5 Years for Free
Striking CUPE public sector workers in Ontario are revealing the rapacious nature of capitalism better than any number of "exposures", op-eds and news articles by the academic "left" press.
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Polls
Have you read the CPC 36th Convention Draft Main Resolution?
What Was Said
Tim Buck – Steps To Power
Published 1925 by the Trade Union Educational League
Under capitalism there can be no equilibrium and no peace. The varying intensity of the class struggle in not a result of the machinations of bad capitalists modified at times by the “justness” of good capitalists, any more than it is due to the efforts of “professional agitators”. It flows from the ceaseless struggle on the part of capitalists to increase their profits, and on the part of workers to maintain their standard of living. Fluctuations and working class defeats must occur – and will continue – so long as the aim of those controlling the labour movement is social peace. Because that in turn demands a measure of social equilibrium which the very nature of the capitalism renders impossible.
Our problem and the aim of this booklet is to direct our activities and the activities of our organizations so that, instead of merely functioning as a kind of bargain counter across which officials continually haggle with the boss in a futile effort to maintain a balance between wages and the cost of living, our organizations will also engage in struggles for more fundamental things; which struggles n turn, while strengthening the unions, will bring them into direct conflict with capitalism as a system.
36th Convention of the Communist Party of Canada
2. CPC 36th Central Convention Discussion Bulletin #2
3. CPC 36th Central Convention Discussion Bulletin #3
4. CPC 36th Central Convention Discussion Bulletin #4
Young Communist League of Canada Contribution to the CPC 36th Central Convention
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