...rst Nations are forced to choose between rights and entitlements as sovereign nations as opposed to land and money. With the future of a people at stake, NoiseCat explores the rising Idle No More movement and underscores that Canada’s indigenous population is a force to be reckoned with. Finally, in this issue’s briefing, we explore global energy strategies in developing nations. I would like to heartily thank Adjunct Professor Joel Moser, Adjunc...
...e debate. A pioneer in the carbon tax credit system, Gillard’s proposition could change the way we think about our emissions and the responsibilities we have to our environment. At the same time, it could follow the same path Canada has taken over the past few years – undercutting “green” legislation and climate research in favor of developing its fossil fuel industry. If Russell Skelton, chief executive and managing director of Macquarie Generat...
...ategy. Indeed, exploiting these in-house resources seems to be more attractive than Antarctic oil in a short-term perspective. However, even if tar sands and shale oil now have primacy over polar oil for the United States and Canada, other global players do not have the ability to tap into their domestic resources. Either because of political issues, such as the power of the green lobbies in Europe and Australia; because of pure hegemonic grand s...
...tall the economic collapse of the regime. They have also argued that current tourism (2.4 million tourists flooded through Cuba in 2008 and approximately 15 million have visited in the last ten years, mainly from the E.U. and Canada) has not been allowed to interact with the general population and has, as such, had little effect on Cuban politics. Consider, though, that Raúl’s ostensibly cosmetic reforms now allow Cubans to move among tourists in...
...level of gun crime compared to other industrialized nations: approximately 7 murders using firearms (75% of all murders) per 100,000 people in the United States, compared to an average of .35 per 100,000 in Europe, and .75 in Canada. By comparison, the rate in Russia is about 20 per 100,000 and in Colombia 60 per 100,000. Additionally, 53% of all suicides in the United State are with guns. Add it up, and groups like the Brady Campaign and the Coa...
...articipants in this “guerrilla project” encounter the animal and plant populations that have adapted or become transformed through human intervention, from the estrogen-pumped fish ecologies of the East River to the swarms of Canada geese who seasonally congregate around the polluted man-made lakes in Flushing Meadows Park. The consequences of urban planning are made unusually palpable. “Safari 7 presents nature not as something pure and untouche...
...egotiations. At the APEC Summit, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made the stunning announcement that Japan would also take a seat at the negotiating table. It is also highly likely that other economic heavyweights—like Canada and Mexico—may also join. If it can be pulled off, the TPP would be the largest free trade area in the world, with potentially dozens of vast and diverse signatories tied together economically, financially, and politi...
...dential approval because it crosses a US border. Constructing the planned pipeline would be a massive project and would create thousands of American jobs. Interestingly, because the actual drilling operations are occurring in Canada and are therefore outside of U.S. control, green activists have had to skip the time argument and jump to the matter of environmental safety. Drilling opponents refer to the tar sands crude as “dirty oil” because its...
...perity in Asia. The next nine nations on Heritage’s list are Singapore (government-run universal healthcare), Australia (free universal healthcare), New Zealand (mixed public-private system), Switzerland (individual mandate), Canada (single-payer system), Chile, Mauritius, Ireland (two-tiered public-private system), and the United States (individual mandate by 2014). How can economically freer nations than the US also be more “socialist?”...
...ke to see.” Barack Obama. Back in 2003. So what happened? Is single-payer too expensive or unworkable? No. It has been proven to be more efficient and equitable, and many other countries have had it for decades, like the UK, Canada, and Taiwan. Switching to a single-payer system would save $200-$400 billion a year—not only would we save lives, we would even have money left over. Now though, we have the reverse. Every year in the United States, 4...
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