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Opinion: Canada is allowing U.S. to dictate Haiti’s renewal: More news and opinion on what the UN soldiers call the “Haitian Vacation”

By David South Id Magazine (Canada), August 22 to September 4, 1996 An August 19 attack on the Port-au-Prince police headquarters by pissed-off former Haitian soldiers should be a wake up call to Canadians. So far, the Haiti UN mission has seemed as safe as the soldiers’ quip, the “Haitian Vacation”. The UN soldiers patrol […]

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US Health Care Businesses Chasing Profits Into Canada

Some fear corporate health care will kill equality of treatment By David South Now Magazine (Toronto, Canada), April 8-14, 1993 American-style private health care is slipping across the Canadian border under the noses of three provincial NDP governments, say researchers representing an association of health care workers. Jackie Henwood and Colleen Fuller of the 7,500-member […]

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U.S. Elections Update: Clinton is using Canada to keep control of Haiti

By David South Id Magazine (Canada), October 31 to November 13, 1996 Canadian troops are not only on the frontline of peacekeeping in Haiti but also the frontline of U.S. foreign policy – a policy that is unravelling during the run-up to the November 5 presidential election. While the living standards of Haitians in the […]

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Featured In New Book Busted: An Illustrated History Of Drug Prohibition In Canada | December 2017

Upon my return from a United Nations workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I was delighted to receive a copy of the new book Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada (Fernwood Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-55266-976-1) by Professor Susan Boyd from the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.  It is […]