Canada is a world leader in mining exploitation. Canadian mining companies have developed technologies and techniques now employed around the world, and Canadian laws are considered some of the most favourable for the industry anywhere. Lax regulatory oversight and near non-existent accountability for criminality committed by mining corporations both in Canada and abroad has proven an irresistible welcome mat for trans-national operators looking for countries to act as flags of convenience for their global operations.
The resulting damage done to Canada's reputation in the world is incalculable, and thanks to secretive governments, and an incurious domestic media environment, most Canadians haven't a clue why they are now perceived so poorly.
Jennifer Moore is the Latin America Program Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada. Jen spent years in Latin America as a freelance print and broadcast journalist, specializing in communities affected by Canadian-financed mining companies.
Jen is taking part this Thursday November 15th at 7pm in the Harry Hickman Building at UVic, with NDP MP Peter Julian, in 'Over Mined, Over Ruled: Justice Activism for Corporate Regulation,' a one night symposium exploring and analyzing Canada's role in international mining practices.
Jen Moore in the first half.
And; though Canadians largely still believe the country to be a force for peace and justice in the world the evidence increasingly belies that assertion. While it's arguable, Canada's colonial founding precludes the premise outright, since the end of the Second World War Canada ostensibly played peacemaker, standing between conflicted parties, and had at home initiated measures for social and economic justice, while championing responsible environmental stewardship.
But those days are past, and though Canadians may be the last to know it, the nation is now identified with the massively polluting Tar Sands, and the political regression embodied by the policies of Stephen Harper. It all paints an ugly picture of Canada and its new found place on the world stage.
Yves Engler is a Canadian activist and the author of seven books, including: 'Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority,' 'The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Police,' 'Playing Left Wing: from Rink Rat to Student Radical,' and his latest, 'The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy.' Yves will be here at UVic this Tuesday November 13th at 7pm in the David Strong Building presenting The Ugly Canadian, a lecture on this country's foreign policy in all its hideousness.
Yves Engler and Canada's "no more mister guy" image in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bancroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of things going on on our streets and beyond. But first, Jennifer Moore and justice activism for corporate regulation.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 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.ca/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
The practices of Canadian mining companies abroad are increasingly in the global spotlight, if less frequently featured at home. From Africa and Asia, to Central America, Mexico and right here in Canada, mining outfits, many flying Canadian flags of convenience, are wreaking havoc on the natural world, and ruining societies with the misfortune of existing above the objects of the industry's desire.
Worse than this is the complicity, in many cases, of the Canadian government. Jennifer Moore is the Latin America Program Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada. Jen spent years in Latin America as a freelance print and broadcast journalist, specializing in communities affected by Canadian-financed mining companies.
Jennifer Moore in the first half.
And; in 2009, the mildly left of centre president of Honduras, Manuel "Mel" Zelayas proposed a change to the country's constitution. Mel wanted to begin modest land reforms, reforms that would, among other things, recognize the rights of indigent share-croppers. Within weeks, the oligarchs running Honduras answered Zelayas' modest proposal with one of their own: The military kidnapped the president, spiriting him into exile, and cracked down hard on human rights activists, journalists, and indigent farmers. Canada and the United States, the two great democracies of the hemisphere, at first tacitly, then actively supported the coup, and continue to do so, even as the country experiences oppression and injustice not seen in Central America since the terrible reign of the death squads in the 1980's.
Jesse Freeston is a Montreal-based freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who has spent the better part of the last three years documenting the struggle of the dispossessed farmers of the Aguán Valley and working to bring their story to the world. Freeston's film, Resistencia documents the farmer's struggle: Burned out of their homes, murdered, deprived of access to traditional lands, schools, clinics, and vital infrastructure destroyed, the families of the Aguán still refuse to be moved; "occupying, defending, and working more than 5,000 hectares of palm oil plantations."
Jesse Freeston and the Honduran Occupy Movement 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 up to speed with on-going events going on on our streets and beyond.
But first, Jennifer Moore and revisiting a victory for Ecuador.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 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.ca/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
This week: Israeli Defense Forces spent much of last week punishing Gaza with rockets and bombs, initially in retaliation for an attack last Monday launched from Egypt into the Sinai Peninsula, far to the south. As was the case in August of last year, when eight Israelis were killed outside the town of Eilat, the IDF immediately connected this latest attack with Gaza, resulting in air attacks that have killed at least nine to date.
Egypt interceded in mid-week, brokering a ceasefire between the Hamas government in Gaza and Israel, but rockets and mortars fired from third parties in Gaza and IDF retaliation threatened to unravel that effort.
It all underscores the volatile situation in the region, made even more so perhaps by the naming of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's new president.
Jon Elmer is a Canadian writer and freelance photojournalist who has lived in and reported from Occupied Palestine for the better part of the last decade. Jon's work can be found featured across the internet at Al Jazeera English, the InterPress Service, and Le Monde diplomatique among others, and at his site, JonElmer.ca.
Jon Elmer and interesting times continuing in Gaza and the Middle East in the first half.
And; the practices of Canadian mining companies abroad are increasingly in the global spotlight, if less often featured at home. From Madagascar, Continental Africa, and Asia, to Papua New Guinea, Central America, Mexico and right in Canada, mining outfits, many flying flags of mere convenience, are wreaking havoc on the natural world, despoiling the environment and ruining societies with the misfortune of existing above the objects of the industry's desire.
Worse than this is the complicity, in many cases, of the Canadian government.
Jennifer Moore is the Latin America Program Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada. Jen spent years in Latin America as a freelance print and broadcast journalist, specializing in communities affected by Canadian-financed mining companies.
Jennifer Moore and a victory for Ecuador 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 news from our city's streetz and beyond. But first, Jon Elmer and a fragile, and rapidly changing political climate in the middle east.
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
Jen Moore is past freelance journalist and researcher who lived in and reported from Ecuador for years. She was a member of a coalition of nine civil society organizations in Latin America that first brought the Canadian mining company, Blackfire Explorations into the limelight for alleged corrupt practices at the 'Payback' mine in Chiapas.
Moore is now the Latin America Program Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada. Jen Moore and Canada's business practices coming home in the first half.
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And; with school set to resume in British Columbia tomorrow, there is what promises to be a battle Royale brewing between the provincial Liberals and the BC Teachers Federation.
There are already rumours of a September work stoppage, and already veiled threats of back to work legislation being quickly implemented by the provincial government should teachers walk out. The teachers say they are determined to make a difference for kids with this round of bargaining.
Susan Lambert is president of the BCTF and she'll be here in the second half to instruct and illustrate the issues at hand 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 news from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Jen Moore on Blackfire, Mariano Abarca, and Blackfire Exploration's operations in Mexico 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: journalist Jen Moore and the evil Canada's mining corporations do in Latin America; Mary Foster of the People's Commission Network and the strange case of Abousfian Abdelrazik; and, Victoria Street Newz publisher Janine Bandcroft on the city's continuing shelter crisis.
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
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in corporate and state media. Gorilla Radio airs live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 102FM, 104.3 cable, and on t
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