War Resisters Welcome Here

Now that King George has expanded his Imperialist war in Iraq despite the outspoken opposition of the people of the United States, it is time that Canadian's open their doors to our American friends who are war resisters.

Canada and Canadians have welcomed our American friends who were war resisters and draft dodgers during the Viet Nam war.



Heck we would have even welcomed Bush, Clinton and Tony Snow, but they got deferals.

URGENT APPEAL:
Temporary Housing for U.S. War Resisters & Conscientious Objectors



EMERGENCY HOUSING APPEAL!!!

Since the news broke that George Bush will be announcing an increased
deployment of 20,000 troops to Iraq, there has been a huge response
within the U.S. military.

The War Resisters Support Campaign has been inundated with requests from

soldiers who are considering coming to Canada.

This is an urgent appeal for housing spots for the new arrivals. If you
have room where you can house a resister for a few days, a few weeks or
longer, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH US.

Welcoming a war resister here with the offer of temporary housing is a
concrete way to help put an end to war in Iraq. Anything you can do to
help would be greatly appreciated!

Leave a message at the War Resisters Support Campaign office

AWOL in Canada, a Counselling Memo

ACTIONS

It is more urgent than ever that we send a message to the Canadian government that Canada needs to welcome US men and women who refuse to participate in the illegal and immoral war in Iraq. There are three actions you can take today to help support the war resisters. Petition Add your name to the petition calling for the federal government to make a provision to allow war resisters to stay in Canada. Initial signatories include June Callwood, David Suzuki, Maude Barlow, Shirley Douglas, Naomi Klein, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Amir Khadir, Paul Cliche and M.G. Vassanji. You can add your name at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/resister/petition.html. You can also download a hard copy of the petition. Contact the federal government Jeremy Hinzman's hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board is now over with the IRB ruling against his refugee claim. However the fight is far from over. The federal court has upheld the decision of the IRB and it is now being appealed to the Federal Court of Appeal. It is urgent that everyone who supports the right of US war resisters to stay in Canada immediately contact both Prime Minister Stephen Harperand Minister of Citizenship & Immigration Monte Solberg and demand that they make a provision to allow U.S. war resisters to stay in this country. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper Fax 613-941-6900 Email pm@pm.gc.ca

As more troops are asked to return or extend their tours to Iraq and as President Bush has admitted that soon he will send even more, some soldiers have deserted to Canada. NAM Managing Editor Mary Ambrose fnds their official reception has been a little frosty.

Soldier Say No!

War Resisters' International was founded in 1921 under the name "Paco". It was and is based on the WRI declaration:

War is a crime against humanity. I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war, and to strive for the removal of all causes of war

War Resisters' International exists to promote nonviolent action against the causes of war, and to support and connect people around the world who refuse to take part in war or the preparation of war. On this basis, WRI works for a world without war.

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Schooling in Afghanistan

Here is an interesting study done last year just before the war in Kandahar broke out in full force, thus redirecting development projects that CIDA and Canada were involved in, into programs of military support for Canada's troops fighting the region.

While the Government claims to have funded schools and other education infrastructure, both under the Liberals and the New Conservative Government, the fact is no one knows how much was spent or where the money went.

And building schools, or claiming that we are fighting in Afghanistan for womens and girls rights, are great sound bites to sell the war to Canadians, but the reality in Afghanistan is of course completely different.

Often we hear about winning the hearts and minds of the people, but if you don't understand the culture, building schools and encouraging girls to attend them, is in actuality putting them at risk in a patriarchical community like Afghanistan as this report shows.

Understanding parents' attitudes to education in Afghanistan
A ‘Back to School’ campaign in Afghanistan has resulted in more than 4.3 million enrolments. However 2.5 million school-age children are still not in school. ‘Supply-side’ issues – school buildings, teachers and curricula – are receiving attention, but little is known about how families decide whether to send their children to school.

Pamela Hunte - - 28 November 2006

AREU researchers found that more than one member of a household is usually involved in an enrolment, non-enrolment or dropout decision. Even in extended families, a child’s father and mother play the prominent roles in the negotiation. Multiple reasons usually influence a single decision, with supply and demand issues often interacting. Rather than direct costs such as notebooks, pens, pencils, books, clothes and transport, it is more frequently the opportunity costs which determine enrolment decisions – such as the loss of child labour to supplement household incomes.

Poverty and cultural preferences for secluding females often result in some (but not all) boys in a household being enrolled, and girls not being enrolled at all or being withdrawn at an early age (after primary school and prior to puberty). However, there are families in most communities willing to take the social risk and send their daughters to school – at least for the primary years. Many extremely poor households continue to place high expectations on education as a way out of poverty. Rather than require their children to work, they send sons (and, to a lesser degree, daughters) to school in hope of a better future.

Researchers also found that:

• Many ex-refugees have aspirations for their children after seeing the importance of education in Pakistan and Iran.
• Harassment of girls on their way to and from school by men and boys of other households is a widespread fear expressed by a girl’s male relatives.
• Parents’ relations with schools and teachers are often characterised by distance and distrust: parents are not encouraged to become active participants in the education of their children.
• Providing school girls with fortified biscuits and rations of cooking oil to take home encourages more rural girls to enrol.

Many schools in Afghanistan lack proper buildings and furniture, classes are often overcrowded, and teachers receive irregular and low salaries. These pressing supply-side constraints need to be addressed but actors involved in education must also look beyond the boundaries of the school setting. They need to:

• train head teachers and teachers in leadership and community organising skills
• establish more local parent-teacher associations and strengthen existing PTAs
• provide gender training to all teachers, encourage communities to think about gender issues and develop a curriculum which stresses positive gender relations in the home and in society
• target outreach to children not enrolled in school and respond to demand for home-based schooling, accelerated learning opportunities and literacy training
• explore scope for child-to-child learning
• expand the school food supplementation programme.

This research was conducted in 2005, prior to recent civil unrest during which security issues have had increasing influence on household decision-making and school enrolment.

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Our Allies In Afghanistan Oppress Women

Womens Oppression Continues In Afghanistan

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Landmines

Canada opposes Pakistan's plan to landmine its border with Afghanistan, well we should since landmines have caused more deaths and injuries to our troops in Afganistan than the Taliban have.

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Dam Beavers

With all the talk about the 'envrionment', we sometmes forget about 'ecology'.

Beavers could play an important role in saving dwindling frog populations, according to new research by a PhD student at the University of Alberta.



And it is interesting that Canada's national emblem, the original source of Canada's and indeed Edmonton and Albertas,economy; the fur trade, today is a 'pest'.






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RAW RIP

Got this email from the folks over at the Grey Lodge.

Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.
All Hail Eris!

On behalf of his children and those who cared for him, deepest love and gratitude for the tremendous support and lovingness bestowed upon us.

(that's it from Bob's bedside at his fnord by the sea)

RAW Memorial February 07
date to be announced

Bob will be missed. But we have his irrerevent humour, his anarchism and his magick in his books, videos, tapes, etc. fnord

He did not suffer thanks to folks coming to his aid in the fall when he was going to be tossed out of his home and had wrung up huge medical expenses.

You can leave disincarnated comments to Bob on his blog.

Kallisti! Bob You Were The Pope, Now We Have To Elect A New One.

No We Don't We Are All Popes! Hail Eris !

"Term of all that liveth, whose name is Death and inscrutable, be thou favorable unto us in thine hour. And unto him, from whose mortal eyes the veil of physical life hath fallen, grant that there may be the accomplishment of his True Will. Should he will absorption in the Infinite, or to be united with his chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another or in any star, or aught else, unto him may there be granted the accomplishment of his true will." Gnostic Catholic Mass

KBOO Interview with author, Robert Anton Wilson.

Don't Let Them Immanentize the Eschaton!

Robert Anton Wilson, writing in "Cosmic Trigger II", also wondered about reality and, as a teenager, discovered the book Science and Sanity: "(Alfred) Korzybski had the answer to at least one question that had perplexed me for years - namely, `What is reality?.' According to Korzybski, the only correct way to answer the question begins with recognizing that reality is - a word." ("The Problem of Reality," page 167, Cosmic Trigger II by R. A.Wilson, 1991 New Falcon Publications)

The word "reality" is not real - it is merely a word that stands for what we sense as real and because the idea of real is different for everyone, one person's definition of reality differs greatly from another's. A person who sees themself as a hippy may include ideas or practices in their reality that a neuro-scientist may openly scoff at and define as "pseudo-science." Or, quoting again from Cosmic Trigger II, "... it does not appear accurate to say the world of our perceptions - the sensory-sensual world - `is real.' More accurately, we should say that we find it convenient to label that world as `real' most of the time, and that sometimes we have to revise the label and replace it with `optical illusion' or `hallucination.'" ("The Problem of Reality," page 168, Cosmic Trigger II by R. A.Wilson, 1991 New Falcon Publications)

Ironically today is Albert Hoffmans 101 birthday, thanks to better living through chemistry. And without Hoffman's child LSD we would not have had Leary and Wilson. Bob would get a kick out of that. "Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. "

And just to show Bob will be with us still watch for this;

The Number 23 (opening 2/23 - get it?)

Second in the series of films bearing numerical names (is that a misnomer?), along with the more succinctly titled 300. This one strikes a chord of weirdness that will only be fully appreciated by those who've read the bizarre and obsessive Illuminatus! books of sage/mystic/mountebank Robert Anton Wilson. It'll be interesting to see whether this steals away the crown for most obscure, cultish mainstream film production of the current century, or if The Mothman Prophecies retains it. With Jim Carrey (as opposed to Richard Gere) in the starring role, I'm betting folks forget all about the critter from West Virginia with blazing red eyes and bat-like wings.

As the news of Bob's passing into the Duat spreads watch this space for more memorials because it has still to be reported in the news.

Bob on the web

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Anne McLellan Life After Politics

Out of government and not being a member of the ruling party now governing does not prevent Liberal honcho Anne McLellan from being offered perks and courted even by her political opponents.

Anne McLellan BA, LLB, LLM

Ms. McLellan, 56, serves as Counsel for Bennett Jones LLP. In addition, she is on the Board of Directors for Nexen, Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation, Community Outreach Committee for the Lois Hole Hospital for Women and is Chair of the Friends of the Legal Resource Centre. She joined Agrium’s Board in 2006.

She is still in the news as CTV News analyst Anne McLellan

She now sits on the Nexen board, the first woman appointed to the oil patch as a director. With much gushing from Oilweek Magazine. Whooo Wee, got us a woman in the old boys network.

And she sits on the Board of agribusiness giant; Agrium Inc.

Originally Agrium was Cominco Fertilizers, and then changed its name. It too relies upon the petrochemical industry to supply it with feed stock.

And she is being courted by the Alberta provincial Tories, since they lack any women in leadership.

Even the government news releases have an air of optimism about them.

One, which announced a government-sponsored conference to get more women involved in municipal politics, opens with this candid comment: "Although women make up half of Alberta's population, when it comes to municipal government only 23 per cent of elected positions are held by women."

It is a refreshingly blunt assessment of the problem, unusual for a government news release. Not only that, the Alberta-sponsored conference has as its keynote speaker a federal Liberal: former-deputy prime minister Anne McLellan, who chaired the Liberal Task Force on Women and Gender Balance in Politics.

And this should come as no surprise as she is a member of the same law firm as Peter Lougheed, a firm with long time Tory connections; Bennett Jones.

We are the only Canadian law firm ever mentioned in Petroleum Economist magazine's top-ten list of law firms with the best knowledge of international energy law;

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GrainVi$ion

Just googling around and I found this little item about the Wheat Board from the folks that want to kill it. It was addressed to Ralph Goodale and is from 2005. Clearly what the Liberals would not grant them Chuck Strahl has. And if you notice from the signatories, they are all Joe and Jane prairie family farmer. Not.

They really should have called their lobby GrainVi$ion. And why would these folks like to dismantle the Wheat Board well...Wheat Board Kicks 1.6 Billion Into Economy Annually And wouldnt that money be better in these guys pockets. They think so.

GrainVision

The CWB has recognized that changes are coming and has begun an internal restructuring
review. GrainVision maintains that it is essential that everyone with a stake in the industry
participate in restructuring decisions in the industry. A fundamental in-depth review of the grain marketing system in Western Canada needs to occur and cannot only include, or be led by, the CWB. We cannot support closed-door, internal, and unilateral CWB reforms that do not considerthe needs and views of the entire industry.

Substantial deregulation is necessary to ensure the industry’s long-term prosperity and sustainability.

The federal government must play a key role in guiding and implementing the
transition to a more commercial and flexible system that fits within the trading environment of the future.

This is particularly relevant in light of the government’s Smart Regulation initiative
that recognizes that we cannot continue to do things as they have always been done.
GrainVision signatories (attached) urge your Government to immediately initiate broad based, transparent, comprehensive, and inclusive consultations on the transition to a marketing system that:

a) Can adapt to a new trading environment;
b) Encourages the development of value added processing, niche marketing, and
closed loop identity preservation systems; and
c) Fosters innovation, investment, and development.

This is an urgent matter, as adjustments must begin without delay. GrainVision representatives
would like to meet with you within the next two months to discuss these important issues.
We will be contacting you shortly to arrange meetings.

Signatories
Agricore United
Alberta Barley Commission
Alberta Chambers of Commerce
Alberta Grain Commission
Alberta Rye and Triticale Association
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Cargill Canada Inc.
Grain Growers of Canada
Graminae of Canada
Hayhoe Mills
Husbands Foods
Inland Terminals Association of Canada
James Richardson International Ltd.
John DePape Ltd.
Linnet - The Land Systems Company
North East Terminal Ltd.
Pike Management Group
Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited
Prairie Pasta Producers
Rahr Malting Canada Ltd.
Saskatchewan Canola Growers Association
Western Barley Growers Association
Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association
Western Pasta Growers
Weyburn Inland Terminal Ltd.
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc.

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Downside of the Boom

Various folks continue to raise the red herring that raising minimum wages will hurt low paid workers. Somehow they will be worse off with higher wages, go figure, because small businesses will lay off workers supposedly ( despite studies showing that there is not a reduction in jobs after a minimum wage increase) or business won't higher students/unskilled workers, because they can't afford them. Sheesh, gimme a break.

Beating my head against a wall #1

There are times when I feel that I am beating my head against a brick wall. In Canadian Business (October 10, 1997) there is a column on school drop outs. I have always supported the concept of the minimum wage, so the argument that links minimum wage to school drop outs is not new to me. When I suggested to a die-hard Thatcher supporter in Britain that a minimum wage might be a good idea, I was told quite emphatically (with expletives thrown in) that I really didn't know what I was talking about. A recent study conducted by the University of Alberta examined minimum wage and drop out rates and found that money spent directly on education with the intention of reducing drop out rates is wasted. You see, the higher the minimum wage the more chance of students dropping out of school to get a job to earn money. It is an interesting argument.

These smart fellows seem to have missed the point that business can absorb the costs of rising wages, it's part of the costs of doing business, and is a cost that they write off as pre-tax operating costs. Which is why workers are variable capital. In other words it reduces their tax rates, workers wages and benefits are already a tax write off.

Which is why the Democrats in the U.S. congress did not get sucked in by the Republicans call for a tax break for small business and finally passed the U.S. minimum wage increase.

Which got the thumbs up from Lou Dobbs!
DOBBS: The Democrats -- the House today passed the minimum wage. Hallelujah!

Of course the Senate Democats having less of a majority may still give business an unneeded break.

Lets look at booming Alberta, where the base rate for workers is now between $8-$12 an hour. Business cannot find folks to work for less than $8 an hour at the low end despite the fact that the minimum wage is $7. In fact the average wage in unskilled work such as working at a 7/11 or at a local non union food wholesaler is $9.50 an hour and companies are offering a bonus of $700 if you stay with them for 1000 hours.

Still in Alberta even at these rates the cost of living needs means the minmum wage should be $10 an hour. The cost of living is a basket of goods, rent, food, utility, school, healthcare premiums, working people have to pay. That is the basis for calling for a $10 an hour minimum wage, not that it is a 'nice round number' like some smart folks assert.

Public Interest Alberta has released a report today that shows even in booming Alberta workers making $12 an hour are having a hard time making ends meet. And while as usual the call is to increase the minimum wage to PIA's credit they call for a Living Wage, as I have done here ad nauseum.

What boom?

Alberta social agencies and unions are calling on political leaders to "take off their rose-coloured glasses" and help families that are missing out on the boom.

They say it's a disgrace that 25% of Albertans are making less than $12 an hour and nearly 70,000 families are living below the poverty line in such a resource-rich province.

"There's a whole population of Albertans for whom the boom is little more than a faint echo," Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan said yesterday. "We think it's long past time our leaders acknowledge the fact that not everyone is sharing in the Alberta Advantage."

He called Alberta's $7 minimum wage "perverse."

Liberal employment critic Bruce Miller said it's hypocritical that MLAs' salaries are indexed to inflation but not the minimum wage or funding for disabled Albertans or others on social assistance. "I think it's deplorable," he said.

NDP critic David Eggen said the minimum wage should be immediately hiked to $10 per hour

A study commissioned by the advocacy organization, Public Interest Alberta, says single minimum-wage earners are taking home less than half the income they need to cover living costs.

But Employment Ministry spokesman Lorelei Fiset-Cassidy said the province is not considering hiking or indexing the province's minimum wage.

She said 97% of Albertans already earn more than minimum wage and Alberta just surpassed Ontario as having the highest average wage at $21 per hour.

But Judy Cook, 50, who makes less than $12 an hour after 14 years at a department store, told the Sun it's a struggle to get by on her income.

"I'm living worse now than I ever did," said Cook, who is renting a one-room basement suite in a friend's house. "I go nowhere and do nothing because I can't afford it. I have friends and family that help me out, but it's very tough."

Bill Moore-Kilgannon, Public Interest Alberta executive director, called on the government to adopt policies that ensure that contracts are only awarded to companies that pay "living wages."

The report, written by the Edmonton Social Planning Council, also calls for the minimum wage and funding for social assistance programs to be indexed.

The report demonstrates that Alberta’s minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation (now $7.00 compared to a high in 1976 of $9.50 / hour in 2005 constant dollars) and cannot be considered a living wage. It also provides the latest statistics showing that close to 25% of all employed Albertans earned less than $12/ hour in 2005. While not everyone earning less than $12/ hour lives in poverty, one in five Alberta families with children under 18 (68,700 families) earn less than Statistics Canada’s low-income cut off (LICO) before income supports.

It is interesting to note that where you have higher unionization rates you have less folks working for the minimum wage. That is because unionization leads the general market to increase its wages and benefits for all workers for two reasons; to keep unions out and to keep competitve with unionized businesses. Alberta and America share something in commong, low rates of unionization, which is why the minimum wage is low.

DAVID SHIPLER: You know, Jeff Rosensweig, at Emory University, did a little calculation that showed that, for the minimum wage in 2009 to have the same purchasing power as the minimum wage did in 1978, it would have to be $9.25 an hour, not $7.25.

One problem is the decline of union membership. It's lower now than it's been since the Depression. About 12.5 percent of American workers are in unions. And in the private sector, it's only 7.8 percent, which means we almost don't have labor unions in the United States, which means that the playing field is tilted.

You know, if you have a free market, in a really free market, the buyer and the seller both have to be on a level playing field. The seller of labor now is, at the low income levels, is not on a level playing field. They can't collectively bargain.

Now, there's a bill before Congress that's been there for a while, supported by a few Republicans in the Northeast, that would facilitate union organizing in the workplace. It wouldn't cost the federal government a dime to pass this. And it would probably help a great deal and a great many people, actually.

Gee that would be great for America, and it would be great if we had progressive labour laws in Alberta, like automatic union recognition, automatic first contracts and No Scab legislation.

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Minimum Wage

Social Wage

Jason Cherniak

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Dion, Layton, No Harper

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion will be in Edmonton today.

NDP Leader Jack Layton will be in Edmonton next Friday

And still no sign of PM Stephen Harper.

The guy takes Redmonton and Alberta for granted.

Which is a mistake, and that might be a good thing.



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Ho Hum

Well I watched the much hyped new CBC 'comedy' Little Mosque on the Prairie, a pale imitation of CTV's very successful Corner Gas.

Little Mosque has been getting buzz for weeks, with everyone from the BBC to CNN running items on the comedy, the creation of Muslim filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz.The CBC, struggling terribly in the ratings, had a lot invested in the show and promoted it with uncharacteristic cash and vigour, including an event at downtown Toronto's Dundas Square last week that featured free chicken shawarma and a band of friendly camels.

Amatuer, banal, boring, snorefest, are terms that come to mind. That and it seriously needed a laugh track so we can follow the jokes. There were jokes?

And lots of references to Toronto proving it was produced in the very town that loves to hate itself, folks out west could care less about Toronto. Filmed in the backlot of a Toronto studio, which should be no surprize since the only thing CBC does out West is a Newsworld Broadcast from Calgary.

Will this show survive? Perhaps, since it will appeal to its Toronto audience. The rest of us are of course insensitive hicks as the show painfully tried to parody.

I don't see this playing on the screens at my favorite Spice Palace all you can eat buffet in Millwoods. Yep no Muslims out west. Except that the first Mosque in Canada was not in Toronto, or Montreal but in Edmonton.

And by the by last time I checked shawarma is a Lebanese dish. And last time I checked the Lebanese community in Canada has as many Druze and Christians as it does Muslims.

Now what they should have served if they were really on the prairies is Shai Butter Chicken.

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