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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Raging Granny groups across North America have taken up the cause of US war resisters seeking refuge in Canada. From San Francisco to the Canadian capital of Ottawa, members of this international women's organization continue to petition Prime Minister Stephen Harper to respect the sentiment of the majority of Canadian citizens and "Let War Resisters Stay". This week San Francisco Grannies revved up...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Letters to the editor, a wonderful way of influencing public opinion: Government should bring Khadr back homeThere are serious reasons why critics of Stephen Harper are aggressively attacking him over his Conservative government's position on Omar Khadr, Canada's alleged child al-Qaida soldier held by the Americans.Omar Khadr has been in prison for six years and tortured, without due process. When...
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Canada's minority Conservative government began to test the federal pulse with the announcement of three by-elections in Quebec and Ontario, observers said.Prime Minster Stephen Harper announced the three elections would take place in early September in two Quebec districts previously held by Liberal and separatist Bloc Quebecois members, and a southwestern Ontario seat held by a Liberal, CTV News...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Canadian Arab Federation La Fédération Canado-Arabe ANNOUNCEMENT July 21, 2008 Rally and March: Bring Omar Khadr back to Canada! Canadian citizen Omar Khadr is the only Western national left in Guantanamo Bay and the first child-soldier to be prosecuted in over a hundred years. Tell Stephen Harper: bring Omar Khadr back to Canada. When: July 26, 2008 at 2:00 [...]
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Standing up for white people everywhere . P.S. As anyone can clearly read, the previous Liberal government was clearly complicit in this fiasco as well, which means that the Stephen Harper Party of Canada will, naturally, deflect all criticism with, "But ... but ... but ... the Liberals ." Apparently, the Stephen Harper Party of Canada is still incapable of making any of its own decisions. That sort...
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Far and Wide (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Or, maybe not so much : Four-fifths of the cost of the Conservatives' 2006 election-campaign advertising in Quebec was funnelled through local campaigns in a financing scheme that Elections Canada alleges was illegal, according to testimony provided in a court case. Ann O'Grady, until April the chief financial officer of the Conservative Party of Canada, said Quebec candidates claimed about 80 per...
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halls of macadamia (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
-- OTTAWA -- Three federal by-elections in early September promise to stir up Canada's stagnant political waters, serving as a litmus test for a possible general election this autumn. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to call the by-elections this week in the Montreal-area ridings of Westmount-Ville Marie and St. Lambert and the southwestern Ontario riding of Guelph. “They are all opposition-held...
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The Tiger in Somerville (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Clearly, those of us who aren’t all that anxious to have Omar Khadr return to Canada are doing so because of our deep-seated aversion to brown people. [via Chuckercanuck] “Why is Stephen Harper so callously indifferent to Omar Khadr’s case?” Elmasry wrote. “It’s painfully obvious: William Sampson is a white Westerner while his fellow Canadian citizen, Omar [...]
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
You have heard of wolfman, now meet the poodleyman. This poodleyman gets very upset if you say anything against his master George W. Bush. But you do have to give it to him that he is very loyal to his master.While Australia and Britain have relatively sane and independent leaders, why in Canada do we deserve Bush's poodle?
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Buckdog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
OTTAWA — "Canada’s national archives building is so prone to leaks that it sprang another one last month just as workers were cleaning up the mess from a flood days earlier. The showcase building near Parliament Hill was given a second soaking June 1 when a cold-water valve in a women’s washroom failed, internal documents show. The leak triggered a fire alarm, and flooded two corridors as well as an...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Hehe, the overall crime rate in Canada going down, and the Cons are pouting that their platform isn’t really holding up under scrutiny (like it ever did): Prime Minister Stephen Harper has dismissed empirical evidence that crime rates are actually falling, suggesting that emotion is a more telling barometer. Aww muffin! It’s really not the facts, but [...]
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Last month, Stephen Harper broke ground with the federal government's historic apology for residential schools. Now, with the country's premiers looking to him for leadership, he has a chance to do much more to alleviate the plight of Canada's aboriginal population - by far this country's greatest policy failing.
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Today NDP environment critic Nathan Cullen is slamming Stephen Harper for effectively putting up the "Gone fishin'" sign while the majority of premiers stare down Stelmach and Wall -- the only premiers still holding out against Canada adopting the regulated cap on pollution that Jack Layton has been calling for.The NDP's release ends with this thought-provoking line:“Regrettably, the prime minister’s...
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New Democratic Party of Canada (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Premiers left to squabble because the prime minister fails to lead: Cullen OTTAWA – Canada risks decades more of inaction and rising pollution if Stephen Harper fails to engage in the debate amongst the premiers on climate change, says NDP Environment Critic Nathan Cullen. Cullen says premiers are now clearly divided among the majority who favour a cap and trade system called for by Jack Layton, and...
