Last week, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board held its biennial Public Meeting, manifesting in Victoria via teleconference; its chairperson of the board of directors, Robert Astley, and president and CEO, David Denison were discussing the board's annual report, and how well it is carrying out its mandate.
They also took questions from their bosses; the current and past working stiffs of Canada.
The Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation was there, and addressed to the board for its consideration a change of direction, one both honouring international treaties signed by Canada, and taking seriously the board's stated concern for an ethical approach to our collective investment portfolio that includes respect for the environment, social justice, and governance factors.
Terry Wolfwood is Director of the BBCF and is here in the first half.
And; Mexico's 'Drug War,' raging since 2008, is less a war against narco-gangs, as presented, but more properly a perpetual war against the people; and, it is a war Canada is intimately complicit in. Canadian freelance journalist, Dawn Paley has been filing stories from south of south of the border on the abuses of Canadian-flagged mining corporations, and now she breaks the story of the Canadian dimension to Mexico's so-called Drug War.
Dawn Paley and "Ottawa's role in the permanent war against the people of Mexico" in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of the goings on going on on the streetz of the city and beyond.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
This week marks the launch of a cross-Canada lecture tour by renowned Israeli history scholar, Ilan Pappe. Pappe is currently a professor at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, and is the author of many books dedicated to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most notably, 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.'
His Canadian tour, 'The False Paradigm of Peace: Revisiting the Palestine Question' is sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) and concludes this Saturday, May 5th with double-header engagements in Victoria and Vancouver; the first being right here at the University of Victoria's David Strong auditorium at 12 noon.
Tom Woodley is the President of the CJPME, and joins us in the first half.
And; According to the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, or COAT, there are more than 16 million Canadians sharing responsibility for Israeli atrocities because we have been, quote: "[F]orced to invest [...] retirement savings in corporations with varying degrees of complicity in Israel’s system of apartheid, its occupation of Palestinian lands, its military/"security" industries, and its aerial bombardments of Lebanon (2006) and Gaza (2008-2009)." COAT is behind a campaign to get the CPP and its nebulous investment arm, the CPP Investment Board, to cease war profiteering and divest from arms and "security" companies all together.
Richard Sanders is founder and coordinator of COAT and serves as editor to its publication Press for Conversion. Richard Sanders and stripping the CPP's war portfolio in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Tom Woodley and The False Paradigm of Peace: Revisiting the Palestine Question with Ilan Pappe.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
This week, Iain Boal is a historian of the commons, activist, and co-author of the book, 'Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War.' He has followed the dark lurkings at Pacifica, and recently published an article, 'The New Crisis at Pacifica' on CounterPunch.org. Iain Boal in the first half.
And; Erik Andersen is a Gabriola Island-based economist, with a long history in the investment business. He's the current president of Gabriola's Ratepayers association, and has a few questions for ministers responisible for the CPP Investment Board past and present. Erik Andersen and taking the CPP to account in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keeps us current with views from our fair city's street. But first, Iain Boal and Pacifica's latest crisis of democracy.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
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