Briarpatch articles from June 1999

Briarpatch archives from June 1999

Step by step: another arduous step in the battle for pay equity.
June 1, 1999... On April 20, 1999 Justice Ross Wimmer upheld the right of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission to initiate a complaint against Canada Safeway Ltd. The decision, labelled a victory by the Pay Equity Coalition of Saskatchewan, marks another...

Swine time: the corporate Golden Piggy Awards are a snorting success.
June 1, 1999... A swine time was had by 300-plus fans who filled the Roxy Theatre for the third annual Corporate Golden Piggy Awards held March 28 in Victoria, B.C. High-on-the-hog corporate contenders waited anxiously to see who would win a prestigious...

Something fishy's going on: an insider's look at the salmon fishing industry in B.C.
June 1, 1999... Near-hurricane force winds and record rainfalls pounded the West Coast for weeks this winter as El Nino's unpredictable twin, La Nina, stormed across the Pacific weather system. But even La Nina's fury has been nothing compared to the upheaval...

Bad connection: an evaluation of the NDP-labour link.
June 1, 1999... The recent Saskatchewan nurses' dispute has laid bare the longtroubled relationship between the province's NDP government and the labour movement and thrown the very future of that relationship into crisis. Not only did the government make the...

Speaking out: how has the Saskatchewan NDP government's decision to legislate nurses back to work affected the relationship between the labour movement and the NDP?
June 1, 1999... There has been speculation recently regarding the Romanow government's mishandling of healthcare negotiations and the nurses' strike. Will this lead to a split between the labour movement and the NDP? There's some historical and current...

Noam Chomsky on the war in Yugoslavia.
June 1, 1999... An interview by Mary Lou Findlay with Noam Chomsky on As It Happens, CBC Radio, April 16, 1999. Mary Lou Findlay: Do you think that, by and large, you and we are getting a reasonably accurate picture of what is going on in this war? ...

8 myths: the NATO war in Yugoslavia.
June 1, 1999... by the International Action Center Myth #1. NATO had to attack the Serbs because the Yugoslav government and President Slobodan Milosevic refused to negotiate on Kosovo, a region of Yugoslavia where ethnic Albanians are the majority....

Whispers from the Qu'Appelle: Moral Panic.
June 1, 1999... Whispers from the Qu'Appelle A CD by Moral Panic 358 Halifax St., Regina, SK S4R 1T2 1998, $10.00 (includes postage & handling). reviewed by Victor Lau I'm no music critic and have little experience in the...

Say "no" to globalization.
June 1, 1999... Every day politicians and media pundits bombard us with the notion that globalization is inevitable. Yet two recent events have proven that citizens working collectively can indeed resist globalization and all that it entails. First, a...