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COLUMBIA ...a seven part series of articles on politics, business and science

DRUG POLITICS : CANADA'S GROWING LITANY OF DISASTROUS MISTAKES ...a series of six articles mapping Canada’s rejection of evidence-based drug control policies

Aid vs. Trade

When it comes to helping farmers in impoverished nations, does Canada’s left hand know what its right hand is doing?
Readers Digest, July 2011.

To see more articles on nuclear power and nuclear weapons, please follow this link. JAPAN’S NUCLEAR CRISIS IN CONTEXT Should the U.S. More Tightly Control Nuclear Fuel It Makes? Some say the U.S. government should reexamine its legal obligations under the law and add safety rules to the agreements countries sign when they buy U.S. fuel or reactors. ScienceInsider, 29 March 2011 Why is nuclear safety always shrouded in secrecy? The Japanese Government was quickly accused of hiding the full extent of the danger at the Fukushima nuclear facility. Why is nuclear safety always shrouded in secrecy? CBC Radio, The Current, March 22, 2011

A 30 minute documentary film for SWR and Deutsche Welle International Television, Germany To view Deutsche Welle's English-language version of this film, click on poster to the left. Canadian Aboriginal People can block multi-billion dollar industrial mega-projects including the Northern Gateway pipeline proposed by Enbridge Inc. to connect Canada's controversially dirty oil sands with markets in Asia. Enbridge admits it may cost upwards of a billion dollars to win Aboriginal support. Deutsche Welle English web English-language broadcast Feb 8, 2010; SWR German website German-language broadcast Feb 3, 2010.

US doctors divided over health reforms

As the United States Congress scrambles to iron the kinks out of its health reform legislation, America’s two most influential medical associations remain deeply divided over the merits of changes respectively proposed by the House of Representatives and Senate in late 2009.
Canadian Medical Association Journal, January 15, 2010

The Powerbroker: As head of the B.C. Transmission Corporation, David Emerson will be a key architect of the city's (and the province's) economic future

Tim Manuel’s roots reach deep into British Columbia Aboriginal history. “They came in 35 years ago and they never consulted us,” Manuel said about BC Hydro. “They make substantial money and we never saw a red cent.”
Vancouver Magazine, October 1, 2009

Federal policies fuel spread of swine flu, experts say

Longstanding federal strategies and polices have exacerbated the rapid spread of Novel A(H1N1) influenza in remote First Nations communities, public health officials and aboriginal health experts charge.
Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 1, 2009

Reconstruction efforts in Iraq failing health care 

Six years after the invasion of Iraq, amid continuing violence, the country's health system, devioid of staff and facilities, is struggling to cope with the needs of the population.
The Lancet,  Special Report from Iraq, February 21, 2009

Go forth and pray, comrade

Seen just by the numbers, China's religious reawakening can be called the largest religious resurgence in human history
Maclean’s,  August 6, 2008 

Hands Off

Is smart regulation a smokescreen for government retreat in the face of massive resource developments in the Canadian Arctic?
The Walrus, November 2007

Canada’s Dirty Little Kyoto Strategy

Liberal and Conservative governments alike claim Canada deserves massive environmental credit for selling the U.S. a billion dollars a week’s worth of oil and gas.
The Globe and Mail, Saturday, June 3, 2006

Canada already has strong green laws - if only we'd police them

Expo '67, the biggest party in Canadian history, was situated on top of a massive toxic dump.  Forty years later the federal government still hasn't enforced the law requiring a cleanup.
The Globe and Mail, May 5, 2007

The dictator debt catch  

Despite the growing attention being paid to the cause of international debt relief, led by celebrities such as Bono, little has actually been done to ease the financial burden on developing countries. But a sign of hope could be seen earlier this year in Iraq, when the Paris Club, an international group that has managed $470 billion (US) in problem loans that the West has made to some of the world's poorest countries since 1983, erased $11.6 billion of debt amassed under Saddam Hussein's regime. And it offered to forgive another $27.4 billion if the country implements sweeping free-market reforms under a plan dictated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since then, the leaders of a number of smaller countries with far fewer resources than oil-rich Iraq have been asking: if Iraq's debts can be so easily erased, why not ours?
The Walrus,  August 1, 2005

The Ultimate High Ground

The U.S. is weaponizing space. Canada is firmly opposed ... but not necessarily.
The Walrus, June 2004

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