This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week, journalist Conn Hallinan on the Colombian government's open season on union and indigenous activists; Canadian journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk on Canada's environmental nightmare Tar Sands; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on all the goings-on in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

 

 

 

It came during the final presidential debate, but little else is heard in North America about the ongoing disaster that is Colombia today. The most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist, or indigenous activist, Republican presidential hopeful, John McCain touts the recent free trade agreement with Colombia as a great step forward for the long embattled South American nation.

Conn Hallinan is a journalist with Policy in Focus, a former director of the journalism program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, whose article "The Killing Goes On: Targeting Unions in Colombia appears at the Policy in Focus site and at Pacific Free Press. Conn Hallinan in the first segment.

And; it's the biggest single man-made environmental disaster on the planet. Visible from space, Alberta's energy extraction project in the north is touted as both the saviour of Canada's economy, and the greatest source of America's petroleum energy for the rest of the 21st Century. While worldwide carbon emissions rise, and scientists warn global climate change is likely the most threatening imminent danger humankind faces, and successive Canadian governments have vowed to lessen their country's contribution to those rising CO2 levels, the Oil Sands project rolls on, its mammoth impact on both local and global environments going unchecked.

Andrew Nikiforuk is a Canadian journalist and author whose titles include: The Fourth Horseman, the Governor-General's Award-winning Saboteurs, and Pandemonium. He is a recipient of eight National Magazine Awards  and an Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. Andrew Nikiforuk's newest book is, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent. Andrew Nikifourk and Canada's sticky business in the second half.

And; the UVSS labour dispute was concluded Friday, so Janine Bandcroft will again cross the SUB threshold to bring us up to speed with her latest goings on. But first; Conn Hallinan focusing on Colombia. 

 

 

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