Connie Kidd

Six Nations: Update from Grand River by Wilma Green Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:29 AM The $26 Million offer to settle the Welland claim for the flooding of approx. 2500 acres of Six Nations land, was made on December 12, 2007. Six Nations reacted with a reasonable question. In fact, during subsequent update and consultation sessions, the people asked the same question, "How did… Read more

Senate reform - necessity or power grab? Canada: Senate reform - Democratic necessity or power grab? Proposals to turn the Senate into short term elected positions scare me, because the functions of the Senate could be downgraded to political lackeydom and then likely dispensed with altogether, destroying the democratic checks and balances we have, such as they are. In my opinion, Senate reform… Read more

Senate reform - necessity or power grab? Canada: Senate reform - Democratic necessity or power grab? Proposals to turn the Senate into short term elected positions scare me, because the functions of the Senate could be downgraded to political lackeydom and then likely dispensed with altogether, destroying the democratic checks and balances we have, such as they are. In my opinion, Senate reform… Read more

The Red Road Toronto Sun columnist Mark Bonokoski explores the powerful and human stories that lie beneath the troubles of our First Nations people in a 15-part series entitled the Red Road. “The aboriginal people of Canada are still seen as a problem to fix rather than an asset to this county.” — Rene Dussault, co-chair of 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples It was an exhaustive… Read more

The Red Road Toronto Sun columnist Mark Bonokoski explores the powerful and human stories that lie beneath the troubles of our First Nations people in a 15-part series entitled the Red Road. “The aboriginal people of Canada are still seen as a problem to fix rather than an asset to this county.” — Rene Dussault, co-chair of 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples It was an exhaustive… Read more

Supreme Court buckles to provincial pressure? BC Am I reading this right? The Supreme Court refuses to hear cases re Aboriginal Title? In all of Canada or just BC? What kind of crap is this? I know the provincial courts buckle to regional politics/politicians, but I am deeply shocked at the Supreme Court's apparent political collusion. So ... how does one go above the Supreme Court of Canada? … Read more

Supreme Court buckles to provincial pressure? BC Am I reading this right? The Supreme Court refuses to hear cases re Aboriginal Title? In all of Canada or just BC? What kind of crap is this? I know the provincial courts buckle to regional politics/politicians, but I am deeply shocked at the Supreme Court's apparent political collusion. So ... how does one go above the Supreme Court of Canada? … Read more

BRANTFORD: City Hall Aggressively Suspends Access to the City Hall, Public Counters with a Notice to Tresspass.by Tim Sywyk Greetings, Today City Hall and for over a week now have been very elusive, aggressive and complacent regarding our genuine concerns in our City, in particular Environmental Issues. Yesterday I was served notice to trespass and now today my wife while trying to retrieve … Read more

BRANTFORD: City Hall Aggressively Suspends Access to the City Hall, Public Counters with a Notice to Tresspass.by Tim Sywyk Greetings, Today City Hall and for over a week now have been very elusive, aggressive and complacent regarding our genuine concerns in our City, in particular Environmental Issues. Yesterday I was served notice to trespass and now today my wife while trying to retrieve … Read more

Governor-General cannot prorogue parliament ... (but she did! What hold does Harper have on her? Oh right ... her job!) A very unusual situation in Canadian politics. More and more, it seems Canadian politics is just about politicians instead of about Canadians. That said ... on this historical day, the Governor-General resumes the intended position in Canada, as a Head of State who guides the … Read more

Governor-General cannot prorogue parliament ... (but she did! What hold does Harper have on her? Oh right ... her job!) A very unusual situation in Canadian politics. More and more, it seems Canadian politics is just about politicians instead of about Canadians. That said ... on this historical day, the Governor-General resumes the intended position in Canada, as a Head of State who guides the … Read more

AUSTRALIA: Claims of child abuse pretext for land grab, uranium mining This is a very horrible act of aggression by the Australian government, under a particularly egregious pretext. This is today ... now ... 2008 ... not 1908. Canada is no less guilty of continuing land grabs, under various guises. Mining and forestry alone consume billions and billions of acres of land worldwide, and total … Read more