In the House of Commons yesterday, NDP Trade Critic Bill Blaikie asked International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew whether or not he will support a request by a Canadian NGO to participate in an ongoing NAFTA case. Pettigrew said he is undecided and Blaikie is urging Canadians to encourage the Trade Minister [...]
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On December 7th, 2000 Canada’s highest court will hear an appeal by two pesticide corporations, Chemlawn and Spraytech, challenging a by-law passed years ago by the municipality of Hudson, Quebec. The by-law would control local use and application of pesticides by homeowners and businesses in the municipality. Two previous attempts to have the by-law quashed [...]
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The Governments of Canada and the United States have finalized a draft of the Ozone Annex to the 1991 U.S.-Canada Air Quality Agreement. The Ozone Annex requires fossil power plants in southern Ontario to reduce their smog-causing nitrogen oxides emissions by approximately 50 percent by 2007.
However, the Ontario government is moving [...]
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According to a new study, Canada’s most populated province is in for more environmental crises over the next three years, thanks to Premier Mike Harris’ failure to integrate environmental values into the core business plans of his government’s 13 ministries.
“In a year that has seen six dead in Walkerton from contaminated [...]
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The Ontario government has refused to participate in a national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, which has been agreed to by Ottawa and all the other provinces and territories.
At this week’s meeting of environment and energy ministers, Ontario pushed for national standards based on its own air-quality [...]
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Unless the Ontario government starts to control the province’s main power producer, Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) emissions of toxic air pollution will increase by 26 percent over the next 12 years, according to a new report by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA).
Flaws in the way the electricity sector is being [...]
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The International Centre for Greek Philosophy and Culture (ICGPC) is a non-profit academic, research and cultural Institution which was formed in 1987 and established by law in 1990. The ICGPC has its seat in Samos (Pythagorion), land of Ionia, which is also the birthplace of philosophy.
The ICGPC has its aim to [...]
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“The 4th Tetralogy: Exploring Plato’s Middle Dialogues,” is dedicated to examining Plato’s Republic, Phaedrus, Symposium and Phaedo, and was recently put on-line for the general public. The site features the texts of Plato, hyperlinked to several search engines (with appropriate cross-links to Perseus), a new forum for scholarly exchange, and an [...]
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Dronpack your thigh-high pleather boots and break out the fishnets: The hooker is back in fashion. After a celluloid resurgence in the ’90s, when Oscar honored both Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential) for plying the world’s oldest profession, the whore is back on her back, only [...]
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All roads lead to Rome, or at least they used to. Now all roads lead to that black, oblong building in Beverly Hills that houses millionaire-mogul Larry Flynt’s multimedia porn empire.
It’s the publishing house that pussy built — home to classic stroke mags like Chic, Hustler, Jail Babes and everybody’s favorite, [...]
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