Paul S. Graham: Video: CUPE President Paul Moist warns against the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

The governments of Canada and the European Union are negotiating a treaty called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. They hope to sign it by the end of 2011. This treaty will take power from local governments in Canada and give it to large transnational corporations headquartered in Europe. These huge companies could take over […]

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Trashy's World: Another financial meltdown in the U.S.?

President Obama is warning of one if the debt ceiling is not lifted.
The American government will exceed its legislated debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion in August.
Trillion.
14,300,000,000,000.
Holy crap.
According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (yeah, they’re weenies and you’ll seldom hear me say anything good about them), our debt stands at $559 billion. That puts our national […]

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