The expropriation of Nanoose Bay by the Government of Canada for US weapons testing

Editor’s note: On 14 May 1999 the Minister of National Defence and Public Works announced they would expropriate 225 square kilometres of seabed from the government of British Columbia in order to maintain the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges (CMETR) off Nanoose Bay near Nanaimo on Georgia Strait. The BC government said they would not renew the lease unless they were guaranteed that the US submarines using the range were not armed with nuclear weapons. The US government refuses to say whether their ships carry or don’t carry nuclear arms. Since the range opened in 1965, there have been 246 visits by US surface ships, 162 by US submarines, six by Canadian submarines and 254 by Canadian ships (as of December, 1999). A Chilean submarine visited Nanoose in 1994.

Speech on Eid Mubarak introducing the Dossier on Palestine

Tony Seed, editor and publisher of the Dossier on Palestine, addresses 1,500 members of the Chebucto Mosque on Eid Mubarak

TONY SEED, Eid Mubarak, December 6, 2002

Brothers and Sisters,

Eid Mubarak. Assalamu Alaikum (peace greetings)

On behalf of the staff of Shunpiking magazine, I sincerely thank you for this opportunity to speak with you about the Dossier on Palestine on such a significant occasion.

In very brief, the word “shunpiking” means to shun the turnpike, those big American toll highways of so-called progress and the civilization of the west, and to take the back roads. For us, it is a metaphor for discovery. We distribute our magazine from one end of Nova Scotia to the other.

The Dossier on Palestine is a gift for the world’s people. It is not one man’s work but a collective and unique work, some six months and more in preparation, a labour of love, friendship and seeking of truth, a deed of the people of Halifax, of people who hail from various national origins and faiths.