...eir chance to take some of that land back. However, the current framework for treaty negotiations asks First Nations to exchange their rights and entitlements as sovereign nations for land and money. In this inequitable deal, Canada would settle the ongoing “Indian problem” once and for all, while First Nations would gamble with their future as a people. For nearly 150 years, British Columbia—a province one-and-a-half times the size of Texas—has...
...embers enjoying good diplomatic relations with one another, the Western Arctic littoral states have tended to naturally join forces to delay an inevitably Russian-dominated Arctic. In the past five years, Denmark, Norway, and Canada have launched several joint or national armament programs aimed at ensuring their own “Arctic sovereignty.” A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a Stockholm-based think tank, shows that th...
Anyone remember the FTAA? Probably not. The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) was supposed to be revolutionary. Lowering or eliminating tariffs on thousands of goods in every country between Canada and Argentina, the treaty was heralded as a breakthrough in Western relations when first announced at the 1994 Summit of the Americas. But today, the FTAA is dead in the water. Instead, as a result of domestic and international hand-wringi...
...who had already entered the conference playing defense: anger over the ripple effects of loose American monetary policy and the perennial thorn of Cuba underscored the testy environment of the meetings. The United States and Canada rejected a proposal proposed by several Latin American leaders, including a charged statement from Raúl Castro himself. The US and Canada were the only two countries who opposed Cuba’s participation – further exacerba...
...azine Ethical Consumer posts a list of numerous sponsored boycotts, which range from major producers like Dolce and Gabbana (“for using a chimpanzee in an advert”) to flooring provider Tarkett, to countries like Burma, China, Canada, and then even the dental-care-providing Starbucks. When countries I usually think of as benevolent—Canada, not Burma—are blackballed “for the government-subsidized slaughter of over one million seals” and bad guys li...
...ie Boothe The United States is currently experiencing a revolution in domestic energy. With the boom in domestic natural gas exploration and production, as well as the development of oil sands operations in our next-door ally Canada, independence from overseas oil is finally within our reach. However, this increased interest in domestic energy is naturally not without some controversy. The growth of the natural gas industry has been driven by the...
...’s objectively true that a Romney victory will be viewed negatively by most of the world, except for perhaps Israel (or more precisely, Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, due to his close personal ties with Romney) and Canada, due to Romney’s promise to build the Keystone XL Pipeline and increase energy trading with our northern neighbor. It will be important for Obama to highlight this, but here is where the President will have to tread a...
...released. That’s how it should work. That’s staying true to our principles.” The more I read about the Breivik trial, the more it bemuses me and the more I ask myself one question: What’s wrong with America? Unlike the E.U., Canada, Australia, Mexico, Rwanda, Nicaragua, and a long list of other countries, the United States continues to enforce the death penalty. On April 19, 1994, Napoleon Beazley broke into the home of John Luttig in order to s...
...he coast of Brazil and Argentina far below the sea bed and in very deep waters in the Santos Basin; within the deep shale formations in the United States in the Bakken, Utica, and Marcellus regions; trapped in sand in Western Canada; and in ever deeper water where more shallow wells were already producing oil, most notably in the South China Sea. These finds have shifted the dynamic from discussions of “peak oil” to a future in which traditional...
....S. government would not sufficiently protect U.S.S.R. athletes and may even actively harm them. Both boycotts involved convoluted diplomatic maneuvering, and neither the U.S. nor the USSR acted alone: in 1980 America rallied Canada, Japan, China, and West Germany, all of which refused to send athletes to Moscow; in ’84 the USSR kept Bulgaria, Mongolia, Vietnam, and East Germany from participating in the games. And these are just recent cases; ex...
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