This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook
 This week: Yves Engler is a freelance journalist and author whose book titles
include: the Mavis Gallant Award nominated, 'The Black Book of Canadian
Foreign Policy,' 'Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority,'
co-authored with Anthony Fenton, and his latest, 'Canada and Israel:
Building Apartheid,' in which he poses the question: "How did Canada
become the most pro-Israel country in the world?" Yves will be in
Victoria, speak to the thesis of his book this Thursday March 25th here
at the University of Victoria. Yves Engler in the first half.
Dru Oja Jay is a Montreal-based activist, researcher, journalist,
member of the editorial collective, The Dominion, and author of the
report, 'Offsetting Resistance: The Effects of Foundation Funding from
the Great Bear Rainforest to the Athabasca River.' Dru Oja Jay and
resisting the "Offsetting" of the environmental movement in the second
half.
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
Canada in 2010 is not the country most Canadian remember, or wish it to be. If anything, the majority in this country considers its role to be that of a just arbiter at home and moderating force abroad. Maintaining these principles, modern Canada has managed to survive two world wars, a cold war pitting the nation squarely between the two major nuclear armed powers in the world, and navigate safely a series of increasingly destructive economic shocks.
Moderation has served Canada, a middle-power nation well; we have prospered reasonably well, and done so without the overt predatory behaviour of our behemoth neighbour.
That is all changed now.
Since at  least the turn of the century, Canada has embraced the muscular approach favoured by the U.S., sending troops and arms abroad to invade and occupy foreign lands; discarding international and national law along the way, even as the federal government eviscerated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the name of national security. The nation has become in all things nearly indiscernible from the empire south we once decried as criminal.
But, Canada does distinguish itself from the United States in a couple of areas, if not by nature, then by degree: Though both governments support the continued holocaust meted upon the Palestinian people by Israel, Canada has gone above and beyond America in its support of the criminal regime; and in terms of environmental protection, it has sunk below the already abyssmal moral standard set by the planet's premier despoiler.
Yves Engler is a freelance journalist and author whose book titles include: the Mavis Gallant Award nominated, 'The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy,' 'Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority,' co-authored with Anthony Fenton, and his latest, 'Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid,' in which he poses the question: "How did Canada become the most pro-Israel country in the world?" Yves will be in Victoria, speak to the thesis of his book this Thursday March 25th here at the University of Victoria. Yves Engler in the first half.
And; those familiar with recent history of environmental in British Columbia's so-called "environmental community" know all is not well. Over the last decade and more, a rift between two philosophies of dealing with the rampant destruction of ecosystems here in the Northwest have fought as often with each other as with corporate and labour interests who view the natural heritage here as merely a resource to be exploited for profit.
 Governments come and go, none opposing the rape of the province's environment when faced with a choice between economy and ecology, but today, the divide in the B.C.'s Green movement has empowered none more than the very forces working daily to destroy what remains of that natural heritage.
Dru Oja Jay is a Montreal-based activist, researcher, journalist, member of the editorial collective, The Dominion, and author of the report, 'Offsetting Resistance: The Effects of Foundation Funding from the Great Bear Rainforest to the Athabasca River.' Dru Oja Jay and resisting the "Offsetting" of the environmental movement in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us today for her regular feature, being tied up with other endeavors today; so, first up Yves Engler and asking, "Just how did Canada come to be Israel's BFF?"
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Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai Briemberg, James J. Brittain, Vincent
Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane
Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Reese
Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie
Fogal, Glen Ford, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Robert
Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly
Hill, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana
Johnstone, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Brewster Kneen,
Betty Krawczyk, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff
Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen,
Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni,
John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek,
Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers
Pitt, Justin Podur, Lila Rajiva, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul
Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, David Rovics,
Danny Schechter, David Schindler, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon,
Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z.,
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