In the news: Canadian and U.S. natives vow to block oil pipelines – Yahoo! News. OTTAWA (Reuters) – An alliance of Canadian and U.S. aboriginal groups vowed on Wednesday to block three multibillion-dollar oil pipelines that are planned to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands, saying they are prepared to take physical action to stop them. The Canadian government, faced with falling revenues due to pipeline bo... More
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Non-CCUSB CFP: Le Canada : une culture de métissage / Transcultural Canada International Conference / October 24 – 25, 2013 Université de Saint-Boniface / Winnipeg Transculturality is a term with varied meanings and is associated with a range of related concepts, including métissage. The term enjoys wide application in the analysis of contemporary societies, particularly those—like Canada—that are characterised by a high degree of ethnic and cult... More
Non-CCUSB Call for Papers: Borders, Walls and Security International conference organized by the Raoul Dandurand Chair at the University of Quebec at Montreal in association with the Association for Borderlands Studies To be held in October 2013 Montreal, Quebec, Canada More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question still remains "Do good fences still make good neighbours"? Since the Great Wall of China, construction of whic... More
19th March 2013
In the news: Reality show filmed immigration raids, B.C. advocates say – British Columbia – CBC News. Immigration activists in Vancouver are protesting the arrest of eight migrant workers who they say were picked up by border agents and filmed for a reality TV series during a raid on a construction site on Wednesday. Construction worker Gord Beck says he was working on a condo complex at Victoria Drive and 20th ... More
In the news: The US-Canada Border’s Constitution-Free Zone | The Nation February 7 2013 Before September 11, 2001, more than half the border crossings between the United States and Canada were left unguarded at night, with only rubber cones separating the two countries. Since then, that 4,000 mile "point of pride," as Toronto's Globe and Mail once dubbed it, has increasingly been replaced by a US homeland security lockdown, although it&a... More