Category Archives: trade

The Globe Spins Around

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Chris Tindal

Want to read something strange? Pick up a copy of today’s Globe And Mail and check out the editorial titled The unwelcome landing of another U.S. penalty. The Globe is now “appalled” at how NAFTA is working (or, rather, not … Continue reading →

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Letters to the Editor

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Chris Tindal

The first time I ever wrote a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail it was published. I think I’m being rightfully punished for that, because they haven’t printed one since. Yesterday’s letter makes the score 1 for … Continue reading →

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What can Elizabeth May be thinking?

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Chris Tindal

Lots of positive press today, and one negative piece from the Globe and Mail. My letter to the editor follows. What, you ask, can Elizabeth May be thinking? Good question. Perhaps she’s thinking about the full, true cost of NAFTA … Continue reading →

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Centralized Power and the Conductor

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Chris Tindal

Yesterday the Globe and Mail revealed that the Conservatives have “used an extraordinary ‘national security’ clause to take control of $8-billion in recently announced military spending,” contravening the 1994 Agreement on Internal Trade with the provinces. I was going to … Continue reading →

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