So Canada is finally winning some medals. During that first week all I could hear on the news was the refrain of ‘when’ and ‘why.’ Canada was feeling a little down on itself for its poor showing. While I empathized with the sentiment, it also made me smile a little. I’m not sure if the everyday Canadian saw the parallels between the medal drought and race relations, but that’s what I saw every time the Olympics was discussed on the news. (more…)
25/07/2009
Connecting The Dots: Mining, the Philippines, and Canada
Posted by alexfelipe under Canadian Politics, Commentary, The Philippines | Tags: bill c-300, corporate social responsibility, economy, human rights, mining, philippines, poverty |[5] Comments
I am not a gold person. This didn’t start with any activism, or with any real reason other than the fact that I’m just not a jewelry person period. I simply have never felt the desire for shiny that most people seem to possess.
Now that I know how the extractive process affects people (including those that look like me), I consider myself lucky.
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