Media Newsroom
This site is designed to provide members of the media with timely and accurate information about all aspects of hemispheric trade issues and the Common Frontiers organization.
Here you’ll find copies of current media releases, background information on important issues, an introduction to Common Frontiers and its members and articles about CF that have appeared in the media.
Our Latest Media Release:
2008-12-30 – 15 Years of Damage is Enough
Years of Damage is Enough December 30, 2008 For Immediate Release (Montreal, Ottawa, Washington and Mexico City / December 30,2008) – January 1, 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of the implementationof the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which integrates...
2008-10-01 – Canada must renegotiate NAFTA now!
Canada must renegotiate NAFTA now! PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Elections 2008 (Montreal and Ottawa, October 1st 2008) – Given that the North-American Free TradeAgreement (NAFTA) is emerging once again as an issue in the US elections, the Harpergovernment has...
2007-02-21 – Ministers of fear and war descend on Ottawa taking North America in the wrong direction
Ministers of fear and war descend on Ottawa taking North America in the wrong direction FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 21, 2007 (Ottawa, Montreal, Mexico City and Washington-February 21, 2007) - On February 23 USand Mexican visitors join Canadian Ministers to push...
2006-06-6 – Halt S.P.P. and Replace NAFTA
Halt S.P.P. and Replace NAFTA PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 06, 2006 Legislators and civil society groups of the NorthAmerican region call for halt to Security andProsperity Partnership and replacement of NAFTAOttawa – At a press conference today,...
2006-04-18 – Letter to Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO
Letter to Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO April 18, 2006 Mr. Pascal LamyDirector General of the WTO41 22 739 5460 faxApril 18, 2006Re: Using Non-inclusive Ministerials to Conclude the Doha RoundDear Mr. Lamy,We are deeply concerned about your call for some...
2006-03-27 – Harper must come clean about the security and prosperity partnership
Harper must come clean about the security and prosperity partnership PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27th, 2006 - One year after the launch of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of NorthAmerican (SPP), the respective leaders of Canada, the United...
2006-03-10 – Defending public control to the access and use of water
2006-03-10 – Defending public control to the access and use of water March 10, 2006 Open Letter to Prime Minister Harper The Right Honourable Stephen Harper February 10, 2006Prime Minister of CanadaLangevin BlockOttawa, OntarioK1A 0A2Dear Prime Minister Stephen...
2006-03-6 – Allowing CEOs to set the foreign policy agegnda for North America endangers democracy in Canada (en francais)
Allowing CEOs to set the foreign policy agegnda for North America endangers democracy in Canada FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6, 2005 On March 7th and 8th a delegation of CEOs, all members of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives(CCCE), an organization made up of 150...
2006-03-5 – World Social Forum Builds Global Community
World Social Forum Builds Global Community March 5, 2006 This article was originally written for the Catholic New Times. The author, of CF memberorganization KAIROS, has kindly given permission to post it here.By Rusa Jeremic“Now the whole group of those who believed...
2005-10-28 – Soccer star Maradona and Nobel Prize recipient Esquivel to march against ‘free trade’ and Bush’s presence in Argentina as part of the 3rd Peoples’ Summit November 1-5: “Another Americas is possible”
Soccer star Maradona and Nobel Prize recipient Esquivel to march against ‘free trade’ and Bush’s presence in Argentina as part of the 3rd Peoples’ Summit November 1-5: “Another Americas is possible” November 1-5: “Another Americas is possible” The 3rd Peoples' Summit...
