This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Brad Slade is a long-time labour activist and he's the Regional Organizer for the South Island and the Islands with Fight The HST. That campaign met all stated barriers by deadline, but the tax remains. Brad Slade back to look at the future of the HST in the first half.

 

Listen. Hear.

 

Kenji Fuse is a member of the board of the Island Bio-Diesel Co-op, a struggling collection of dedicated fuel alternativists scheduled to meet with the minister responsible to seek a sensible redress to the Campbell government's regressive environmental policies. Kenji Fuse in the second half separating the gas from the reality of government environmental policy.

 

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keep us abreast of the goings on going on on Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, Brad Slade continuing the HST fight. 

 

 

British Columbia is now ruled by the hated HST, or the Harmonized Sales Tax that kicked in July 1st. No matter what its defenders say, the HST is in effect a massive cash grab by an unholy alliance of federal and provincial regimes wo are widely recognized for their lack of responsiveness to the popular will. While it's clear, Canada's economy is in decline, as is the case in the rest of the western world, with more Canadians out of work, or facing the prospect of joblessness, Stephen Harper's federal Conservatives and Gordon Campbell's B.C. Liberals must find another way to fill their respective coffers, but is taking food off the forks of the poorest the best way to do it?

Brad Slade is a long-time labour activist and he's the Regional Organizer for the South Island and the Islands with Fight The HST. That campaign met all stated barriers by deadline, but the tax remains. Brad Slade back to look at the future of the HST in the first half.

And; British Columbia's premier, Gordon Campell jetted to Copenhagen last year to receive an award for the "Green Initiatives" of his government here at home. Presented in a ceremony photographed for posterity, the premier accepted the accolade on the strength of the province's so-called Carbon Tax. In January of this year, the Carbon Tax took effect with some decidedly less than green effects.

 

Kenji Fuse is a member of the board of the Island Bio-Diesel Co-op, a struggling collection of dedicated fuel alternativists scheduled to meet with the minister responsible to seek a sensible redress to the Campbell government's regressive environmental policies. Kenji Fuse in the second half separating the gas from the reality of government environmental policy.

And; The Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keep us abreast of the goings on going on on Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, Brad Slade continuing the HST fight.  

 

Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Mark and Rhoda Berenson, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai Briemberg, James J. Brittain, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Ezili Danto, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Yves Engler, 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, Ken O'Keefe, David Orchard, Riki Ott, 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, Harvey Wasserman, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.