Politics and its Discontents

While it is beginning to look like International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland's departure from CETA negotiations was more of a ploy ...

A very brief video , but a very important message about the dangers of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism that is a central par...

Recently, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a woman I much admire, released a five-minute video that takes aim at the Trans Pacific Partnership...

As pointed out by The Mound , Joseph Stigliz has issued a dire warning to Canada about the dangers of the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership);...

Despite the rhetoric by our political and corporate overlords about the wondrous benefits of free trade, multitudes of people on both side...

Given that the government of Justin Trudeau is in favour of trade deals such as the TPP, its approval seems a foregone conclusion, despite i...

The federal government has confirmed that it intends to sign the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal at a meeting next wee...

I was not planning to write about the Trans Pacific Partnership deal gleefully announced by Mr. Harper yesterday, trade and economics not ...

H/t The Toronto Star While our prime minister claims, when attacking the niqab, that Canadians hold openness and transparency as soci...

While many of us know that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is being conducted in unprecedented secrecy (except, of course, in the ca...