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November 10 to 23, 2005   •  No 126

New corporations laws looser than The Bahamas

by Robert Broughton

The BC Liberal regime has made it legal for companies to file no statements, disclose no stock sales and employ a completely foreign board of directors

 

The shareholders can also waive annual meetings, and annual meetings can take place outside of BC. Directors may be added or removed at any time, and there is no need to register the change in Victoria.

Latin American apartheid

by Elbio Grosso Trentini

Violence, racism and extreme poverty 500 years after “discovery”

 

Racist words are casually tossed up in conversation in every Latin American city, from tired “work-like-a-nigger” cliches, to blackface shows and crude anti-semitic puns on TV, to president Fox’s public comments that Mexicans will take jobs in the US that “not even blacks want.”

uprising breads bakery

Campaign trail enlivening

by Kevin Potvin

Unlike the outgoing mayor-cum-senator, this candidate likes politics and meetings

Plugged in to global cooling

by Dan Crawford

We may not be nearly as technology advanced as we think

Sewage in the Canadian soul

by Michael Nenonen

The contaminated water at Kashechewan is just the latest evidence of a crime

 

Few Canadians are aware that South Africa modeled its malignant Apartheid system after our Indian Act. South African “homelands” were in large measure recreations of Canada’s “reserves.”

A New World Odour

by Chris Walter

The Olympics brings a war on the poor, underway already

Good Night and Good Luck

by Junius

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Illumination and Sexo, Pudor, y Lagrimas

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