May 15 2008
Fears for the future of the world’s biggest tropical rainforest grew yesterday, after the sudden resignation of Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva. Environmentalists had seen Silva, 50, who was born in the Brazilian Amazon, as an...
Apr 17 2008
A court in Yemen has granted a divorce to a wife aged only 8 years old, citing that the marriage was forced on the child. The court ruled that the 8 year old was forced into marrying a 28 year old by her father, even though in the huge majority of...
Apr 12 2008
The majority of Canadians is very opposed to our army fighting in Afghanistan causing Prime Minister Harper to resort to orchestrating that John Manley avail him a report recommending what he wanted to hear. Former cabinet minister Sinclair Stevens...
Apr 10 2008
Canada’s established wireless companies should ready themselves for the possibility of at least one new national competitor following the spectrum auction that kicks off next month, but the arrival of several smaller and nimbler regional players...
Apr 3 2008
Increasing U.S. criticism of NAFTA is somewhat irrational, since the free trade deal is not responsible for job losses that so worry American policy makers, a Canadian government minister said on Wednesday. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the two...
Mar 12 2008
Some things are a matter of rocket science. The federal government’s own science panel has reportedly challenged Ottawa to act if it’s serious about sovereignty and security for the North and Canada’s coasts. The Defence Science...