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David Orchard runs for the
Liberal nomination in Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River
National Post online, Friday, May 23, 2008
David Orchard sets out to save Canada.
Again.
By Kelly McParland
If you’re ever on one of those TV
reality shows in which success depends on the determination to persevere in the
face of betrayals, setbacks, failures, dirty tricks and the unreliability of
others, the guy you want on your side is David Orchard.
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The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) and Regina Leader-Post, Thursday, May 22, 2008
Orchard to
seek Grit nomination
By James Wood
... "When I made that decision to
join the Liberals I did so in a serious way. There are good times and there are
bad times. I'm a farmer, you have good years, you have bad years, but you won't
get too far if you don't stick with things so that's what I've done," Orchard
said in an interview.
... Senator David Smith,
national co-chair of the Liberal campaign, said unusual
circumstances, such as the timing of the byelection, led to Beatty's
appointment and normal nominating procedures would be followed this
time. "We wouldn't play favourites. It's a level playing field from
our perspective," he said from Toronto. "What's that old song . . .
accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, so let's move on.
What happened happened."
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Media release, Wednesday, May 21, 2008
David Orchard to run for the Liberal
nomination in Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River
"Following an extensive period of consultation across the riding, I have
decided to put my name forward as a candidate for the Liberal Party nomination
in the northern Saskatchewan riding of Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River.
As part of the Liberal team, I will offer my energy and experience to work
for an alternative vision for the riding and the country to that put forward by
Stephen Harper’s government. If selected, I intend to speak for Metis, First
Nations and non-aboriginal alike. Mine will be a fighting voice for everyone —
the Meadow Lake farmer, the daycare worker in Sandy Bay, the student in
Pinehouse, the trappers in Cumberland House, or the fishermen and women in
Wollaston Lake. It is my hope to also be a voice for understanding across the
cultural and racial divide in this far-flung riding, which covers over half of
Saskatchewan." continued...
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New Video:
(on YouTube)
Renewable energy, sustainable resources, and trade
David Orchard's speech to the 5th Annual
Resource Issues in Saskatchewan Conference at the Saskatchewan Institute of
Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) Woodland Campus, Prince Albert, SK, March
18, 2008.
New from Marjaleena Repo
Prince Albert Daily Herald, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 (edited version) and
Prairie Messenger, April 9, 2008
The Ahenakew affair: a bad law, an opportunity missed
Kosovo's unilateral declaration
of independence
To hear David Orchard's
remarks at a demonstration in Toronto, March 1, 2008
go here. To read his articles on the U.S./NATO bombing of
Yugoslavia in 1999 go to "Canada at War", "Humanitarian
bombing" and "Globalism's
first victim".
Edmonton's CHED Radio
aired a one hour interview, April 9, 2008, with James Bissett,
Canada's former ambassador to Yugoslavia, about the history of
Yugoslavia's disintegration and the U.S./NATO bombing preceding
Kosovo's declaration. To listen
go here and for James Bissett's web site, "The Balkan Crisis
Page," go
here.
Scott Taylor, former
soldier, author, and editor of
Esprit de Corps
has reported extensively on the civil war in Yugoslavia, the
bombing, and post-war developments in Kosovo. Read his recent
article, "Is Kosovo really an independent country?"
here.
For Marjaleena Repo's
1999 article, "Spinning NATO's war: demonizing the Serbs,"
go
here and for her reading list, "Understanding the systematic
dismantling of Yugoslavia," go here.
(The books and publications on the list can be ordered directly from
Campaign for Canada.)
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Global Research.ca, Sunday, February 23, 2008, The Hill Times, Monday,
February 25, 2008 and
CounterPunch.org, Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Canada in Afghanistan: The New Conquistadores
by David Orchard
... Military assaults against the poverty stricken farmers of Afghanistan and
Haiti, and an Iraqi population struggling for its very survival, are part of a
long, barbarous tradition going back to slave ships and colonial resource wars
and will some day, I believe, be seen in that context. In the meantime, the
agony of millions does not reach our ears or eyes, and Prime Minister Harper is
busy working the phones to shore up the U.S.-led war, seeking more troops and
helicopters to "finish the job."
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Audio: Wednesday, June 13,
2007
Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly Hearing on TILMA
To listen to
David Orchard's presentation to the Saskatchewan Legislative
Assembly's Standing Committee on the Economy's hearing on the
Trade, Investment, and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA),
Wednesday, June 13 2007,
go here.
For a written transcript (PDF)
go here.
For more information on the hearings and a list of presenters go
here and for audio of the complete hearings go
here.
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon), Thursday, June 7, 2007
Lost sovereignty predictable result of
currency union
by W. H. (Bill) Loewen and David Orchard
... Canada's reaction to a rising dollar is the opposite to what Japan did
through its many years of prosperity after the Second World War. It lowered the
value of its currency by buying foreign bonds and other assets, enabling it to
continue to export profitably. China is now doing the same.
Canada, instead, is selling more of its assets, with the resulting increase
in the value of the dollar. The road to prosperity is found by selling your
products, not your assets.
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Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sunday, April 29, 2007
Afghanistan and Iraq: the same war
by David Orchard and Michael Mandel
Most Canadians are proud that Canada refused to invade Iraq. But when it
comes to Afghanistan, we hear the same jingoistic bluster we heard about Iraq
four years ago. As if Iraq and Afghanistan were two separate wars, and
Afghanistan is the good war, the legal and just war. In reality, Iraq and
Afghanistan are the same war.
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Edmonton Journal, Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Harper gov't is doing to CWB what the U.S.
couldn't do by itself
Loss of wheat board would mean loss of power
by Albert Horner and David Orchard
... Since assuming power, the Harper government has waged an unrelenting
attack on the Canadian Wheat Board — firing its popular CEO, Adrian Measner,
stacking the board with government appointees who detest it, and holding a
fraudulent barley "plebiscite" (complete with gag orders, a secret voters' list,
traceable ballots and deliberately misleading questions). Still, only 13.8 per
cent voted to remove barley from the board. ...Today, the Liberal party is truer
to John Diefenbaker's defence of the West than the party claiming his name.
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Western Producer, April 5, 2007
Liberal leader Dion backs retention of single desk
By Adrian Ewins
Before a standing-room crowd of more than 300
cheering supporters in a Saskatoon hotel ballroom last week, Liberal leader
Stéphane Dion gave his audience exactly what they came to hear: a spirited
defence of the Canadian Wheat Board's single desk and a stinging attack on the
government of Stephen Harper.
Standing in front of a backdrop depicting a
golden wheat field under a bright blue prairie sky, the leader of the opposition
vowed that his party will do everything in its power to derail the Conservatives
from dismantling the single desk.
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The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon), Monday, April 1, 2007
Wheat board vote a ruse: Dion
by Janet French
"The wheat board is under assault — an
assault more brutal than anything we’ve seen before," Dion said, backed by
Liberal MPs Wayne Easter and Ralph Goodale and supporter and trade critic David
Orchard. "Because of ideology, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is determined to
kill the wheat board. That is his plan. That is his goal, and I think he must be
stopped." continued...
NB: This was a
standing room only event with over 400 attending (rather than the 250
mentioned in the article). People travelled from all across the prairies to be
present. The meeting was chaired by David Orchard.
Audio: Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Ottawa Radio CFRA 580
Author and radio host
Michael
Harris interviews David Orchard about free trade and globalization. The
discussion starts off with the closing of the U.S. owned Hershey Chocolate
factory in Smith Falls, ON, and ranges over the history, contents and effects of
the FTA and NAFTA agreements.
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon), Friday, December 8, 2006
Orchard's strategic influence
by Randy Burton
If delivering support to the winning candidate means anything in politics,
then David Orchard's star must surely be on the rise in the Liberal party.
The longtime critic of free trade, two-time candidate for the leadership of
the Progressive Conservative party and new Liberal can be credited for playing a
significant role in Stephane Dion's rise to the Liberal leadership.
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David Orchard backs
Stéphane Dion
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| Photo credit: StarPhoenix/Richard
Marjan |
Listen to their press conference in Saskatoon, SK, Wednesday, August 16,
2006.
Globe and Mail, August 17, 2006
MacKay's kingmaker backs Dion
Former Tory lends support from the West to Liberal hopeful
by Campbell Clark
OTTAWA -- David Orchard, once kingmaker for
Peter MacKay's Progressive Conservative leadership bid, threw his organizational
weight behind Liberal hopeful Stéphane Dion yesterday.
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The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon), Thursday, August 17, 2006
Dion welcomes Orchard's endorsement
Support reflective of campaign, says Grit leadership candidate
by Lana Haight
Dion says ... Orchard's support is symbolic
of the campaign he's running. "It revolves around rural Canada and urban Canada,
a farmer from Saskatchewan and a professor of university from Montreal, a big
tent in the Liberal party," he said in an interview.
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Ottawa Citizen and Montreal Gazette, Thursday, August 17, 2006
Orchard backs Dion for Liberal leadership
by Juliet O'Neill, CanWest News Service
Orchard praised Dion's achievements as an
ardent environmentalist and champion of the Kyoto accord; a firm supporter of
the Canadian Wheat Board and supply-management agricultural programs; a renowned
advocate of Canadian unity; and for his call for an immediate ceasefire during
the Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon. "When you add it all up I think that he is
an effective leader who can stand against Stephen Harper," he said.
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National Post, Thursday, August 17, 2006
Orchard boosts Dion's farm team
by John Ivison
OTTAWA - If you had spent the last few years
abroad -- maybe working for the BBC and teaching human rights at Harvard -- the
Liberal leadership race might seem a bit like a soap opera you lost touch with
long ago. ... The story took a further improbable twist yesterday when that most
liberal of Liberals, Stephane Dion, announced that David Orchard, the
Saskatchewan farmer and former Progressive Conservative leadership candidate,
was backing his campaign.
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Halifax Daily News, Wednesday, July 26, 2006,
GlobalResearch.ca, and
Information Clearinghouse
Standing up for Canada? The Harper
government's refusal to demand an end to the bombings of Lebanon
by David Orchard
For two weeks, tiny Lebanon has been pounded by bombs, shells and high tech
missiles from land, sea and air. Its coast is blockaded, its airport smashed.
Sixty plus bridges have been destroyed; roads, schools, ports, churches,
mosques, grain depots, radio, television and telephone towers, ambulances, power
stations, fuel depots, a hospital, milk factory, pharmaceutical plant and entire
residential city blocks pulverized. Frantic relatives with bare hands try to
free those buried alive.
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Huron-Wendake, Québec City, PQ, January 16,
2006
David Orchard joins the Liberal Party of Canada
Endorses Liberal candidates Isa Gros-Louis and Yves Picard in
Québec
David Orchard receives his Liberal Party of Canada membership from
election candidates
Yves
Picard (Beauport-Limoilou) and
Isa
Gros-Louis (Louis-Saint-Laurent)
David Orchard with Isa Gros-Louis, Yves Picard and their election
campaign teams, Huron-Wendake, Québec, January 16, 2006. Photo:
Bruno Gros-Louis
Legendary Huron-Wendat Chief and father of Isa Gros-Louis,
Max Gros-Louis, David Orchard, Yves Picard and Isa Gros-Louis,
Huron-Wendake, Québec election press conference, January 16, 2006.
Photo: Bruno Gros-Louis
(click thumbnail to
enlarge)
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Yves Picard, David Orchard and Isa Gros-Louis, Huron-Wendake,
Québec election press conference, January 16, 2006. Photo: Bruno Gros-Louis |
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Max Gros-Louis, David Orchard and Yves Picard wearing
handcrafted, embroidered Huron-Wendat scarves presented to
them by Isa Gros-Louis, Huron-Wendake election press
conference, January 16, 2006. (David Orchard's scarf is
embroidered with an emblem of a salmon swimming upstream.)
Photo: Bruno Gros-Louis |
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David Orchard endorsing Isa Gros-Lous, Liberal candidate
in Louis-Saint-Laurent, Québec, Huron-Wendake election press
conference, January 16, 2006. Photo: Bruno Gros-Louis |
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David Orchard endorsing Yves Picard, Liberal candidate
in Beauport-Limoilou, Québec, Huron-Wendake press
conference, January 16, 2006. Photo: Bruno Gros-Louis |
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Saskatoon, January 10, 2006
David Orchard endorses Liberal candidate Chris
Axworthy in Saskatoon-Wanuskewin
Liberal candidate
Chris
Axworthy (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) pins his campaign button on David Orchard's
lapel at a press conference in Saskatoon, January 10, 2006. Photo: Antoinette
Martens
David Orchard and Chris Axworthy after Orchard's endorsement of
Axworthy's candidacy in Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Saskatoon, January 10,
2006. Photo: Antoinette Martens
Press conference to announce David Orchard's support for Liberal
candidate Chris Axworthy in Saskatoon-Wanuskewin (David Orchard's
home riding), January 10, 2006. Photo: Antoinette Martens
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"Who will speak for Canada?"
David Orchard’s speaking notes delivered at January
10, 2006 press conference at Liberal candidate Chris Axworthy’s campaign office,
Saskatoon, SK
"...In my view, this
is an important election that we are involved in today.
There are serious dangers, I think, for our country. One
of the big winners in this election is going to be the
separatist movement in the province of Quebec.
In triggering an election at this time, both
Mr. Harper and Mr. Layton were prepared to play with the fires of Quebec
separatism in an attempt to increase their own positions in the House of
Commons. It is a dangerous and a short-sighted effort that could hurt our
country badly and give a powerful momentum to those working very hard to take
our country apart."
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June 5, 2005 (published in the Halifax Daily News and
Moncton Times and Transcript), Cartoon by Michael de Adder
