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ColumnsThe Nonagenarian’s Notebook
It’s time to end NAFTA
A renegotiated NAFTA that satisfies Trump would benefit the U.S. — but only its abrogation would benefit most Canadians.
October 15, 2017

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Holding the Line
The threat of CETA: trade, investment and workers’ rights
The damage CETA will wreak on our economy and our democratic rights is unprecedented. But it can still be stopped.
October 3, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
CETA, temporary workers, and the attack on middle class jobs
Leaked excerpts of the Canada-EU trade deal reveal serious implications for Canadian workers
August 19, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
Trade treaties bloom, sovereignty wilts
The federal government is engaged in five major "free trade agreements" that threaten the degree of control Canadians have over their land, resources, freedom and…
June 18, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
Players, absentees and spectators in the CETA ambush
Who supports the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and why? Who might have opposed it, but hasn’t? Are there prospects for stopping it?
March 24, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
CETA will erode our traditional rights
In the third of this 5-part series: Canadians' wants and needs may change in the coming two decades, but the constraints under our new treaty…
March 4, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
Opening the door to foreign corporate takeover of Canada’s economy
In the second of this 5-part series: CETA will facilitate the "de-Canadianization" of our industries, a process that could be extremely difficult to reverse
February 24, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
CETA “not about trade”
In the first of this 5-part series: What the North American Free Trade Agreement has taught us, and the implications of another treaty based on…
February 17, 2014
View From The Mainland
CETA: taking stock(s)
The Canada-European Union free trade agreement is coming. Labrador and Newfoundland are both part of Canada. Sadly, but ultimately, Canada controls our fisheries.
June 6, 2013
Commentary
CETA on our doorstep
As the enormously controversial Canada-European Union free trade deal looms, details of the negotiations are being kept secret by the federal and provincial governments. At…
June 3, 2013
Commentary
Sleeping through trade agreements, waking up to corporate empire
May 11 is World Fair Trade Day, a time to talk about trade injustice and Canada's waning control over its own sovereignty.
May 11, 2013
Every HYNIE counts
Skewed
Every HYNIE counts
Rocking the vote by making it illegal
April 13, 2011