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• Albertan Hate Crimes Awareness Day

  
  Posted at wordpress.com — Authority: 118
  . .. It’s a sobering report into how hate crimes are reported and investigated in Alberta. 2008 statistics released by the Alberta Hate Crimes Committee shows there were 68 hate crimes identified by Calgary police last year, compared to 155 by police in Edmonton. The difference is that the cops themselves are ...
  6 hours ago

• jason kenney changes citizenship guide: canada no longer called nation of peace

  
  we move to canada — Authority: 134
  From the Globe and Mail , emphasis mine: The Conservative government has re-written the book on what it means to be Canadian. No longer will prospective immigrants learn that Canada is a strictly peaceful nation. Instead there will be a greater emphasis on Canadas military history and on the poppy as a symbol ...
  12 hours ago

• Former Conservative MP Elsie Wayne doing better after strokes, son says

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 644
  Elsie Wayne, the former Saint John mayor and Conservative MP who suffered two strokes over the weekend, is faring “a little better” than she was a few days ago, her son said Tuesday. Steve Wayne said his 77-year-old mother had undergone a battery of tests...( read more )
  15 hours ago

• Liberals take a drubbing in by-elections

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 423
  I n what was Canadians’ first opportunity to give their assessment of the Liberal Party’s choice of leader, last night’s by-elections were a clear repudiation of Michael Ignatieff. Liberals would like to suggest that they had no expectations of success. They did, however, run candidates in all four ridings,  ...
  17 hours ago

• An amazing thing occurred in Parliament last Tuesday

  
  Totalrecoil — Authority: 108
  A truly amazing event took place in Ottawa this past Tuesday. Manitoba MP Candice Hoeppner ’s private members bill C-391 to eliminate the federal long-gun registry, passed on second reading by a vote of 164 to 137. This was amazing on several different levels. Firstly, it was a private members bill which rarely ...
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• Indian Government Far More Courageous Than Canadian Government

  
  Celestial Junk — Authority: 553
  The political world is made up of visionary and bold leaders, skulldugerous power seakers, and slimy weasels that simply play the middle in order to survive. India, not Canada, is offering bold and visionary leadership on climate change : Jairam Ramesh, Indias environment minister, released the controversial ...
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• Let’s Turn up the heat on Rex Murphy’s flawed logic

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 462
  In his regular column the other week Rex Murphy published a piece entitled Dont turn up the heat on the West , which also had the great sub title: By making Western provinces pay for adventures in global warming policy we will be playing with Confederation. For a man that regularly rails against the lack of ...
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• Molly’sBlog 2009-11-08 20:49:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 154
  CANADIAN POLITICS/ECONOMICS: BANK BAILOUTS BY STEALTH: The following was inspired by a comment on a previous post on this blog concerning the OCAP March on the financial district in Toronto. It actually provoked an intelligent comment whose essence was "when have Canadian banks ever been bailed ...
  2 days ago

• The Journal Science and the CPC

  
  Celestial Junk — Authority: 553
  Not that long ago I chastised the Stephen Harper conservatives for playing the "monkey in the middle" on climate change. Harper & co. are hedging their bets by whole heartedly agreeing with IPCC claims, yet using every excuse under the sun to do nothing about climate change. Conservative apologists say that ...
  2 days ago

• website launched to support bill c-440: let them stay!

  
  we move to canada — Authority: 134
  Go here for information about how you can support Bill C-440, to allow Iraq War resisters to stay in Canada.
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• Molly’sBlog 2009-11-07 22:55:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 154
  CANADIAN POLITICS: MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION: ccccccccccc CUPE calls for public inquiry into Quebec municipal sector: cccccccc There have been numerous scandals over the awarding of municipal contracts , and I expect that this will be an ongoing thing until the end of our present ...
  3 days ago

• Obama has a near "Brownie moment"

  
  Dead Reckoning — Authority: 118
  We all remember former President George W. Bush, patting his hapless Director of FEMA on the shoulder and saying, “You are doing a heck of job, Brownie.” In that moment, more than anything else that had transpired, he doomed his Presidency. People were prepared to give him a lot of slack on his war in Iraq ...
  3 days ago

• Toronto wins consolation prize Pan Am Games

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 423
  H igh fives all around, folks. The City of Toronto has won the 2015 Pan Am Games, beating out Bogota, Colombia, and Lima, Peru by a 33 of 52 vote on the first ballot. After losing out to world-class cities in its five attempts to attract two Olympic Games, two Commonwealth Games and one attempt to get a World’s ...
  3 days ago

• The major news this week..

  
  The non conformer's Canadian Weblog — Authority: 418
       ”If we let Harper put the Conservative logo on EACH dose of H1N1 vaccine – there would be millions in short order.” with absolutely no lack of it…  It would all be very funny if it weren’t so sick.   Canada, OTTAWA – The biggest winners of the Conservatives’ stimulus ...
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• Saskatchewan: all Canadians must reduce emissions

  
  Financial Post - Diane Francis — Authority: 531
  Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan is not a happy camperthese days following publication of a recent report funded by TD Bank andprepared by the environmental groups the David Suzuki Foundation and thePembina Institute. The report quantifies the cost of meeting Ottawa’s plan tocut greenhouse gases by 20% from ...
  4 days ago

• H1N1 live chat: Is there a vaccine for when politics and science mix?

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 644
  Today, at 1 p.m. ET Scott Stinson, national editor at the National Post, will host a chat with National Post senior national reporter Tom Blackwell, who has been leading our coverage of the H1N1 vaccination campaign. He wrote today: For days, Canadians...( read more )
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• Rick Mercer: Canada’s Action Plan (video)

  
  Woman At Mile 0 — Authority: 123
  
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• Time for Harper to Show Some Leadership

  
  Celestial Junk — Authority: 553
  I can understand why Stephen Harper drives "progressives" nuts with rage ... its the bloody hypocrisy. I have no doubt that Harper & Co. are fully aware that the science that underpins the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming is badly flawed, and each month that passes finds more holes being drilled in the ...
  5 days ago

• Two new Howard Rotberg books

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 435
  Howard Rotberg, whom some of you may remember from his dust-up with Chapters a while ago after a Palestinian worker complained about his book The Second Catastrophe , has two new books that he’s recently published. The first, Exploring Vancouverism: The Political Culture of Canada’s Lotus Land , can be ...
  6 days ago

• Farewell, So Long, Too Bad We Knew You

  
  Stageleft: life on the left side — Authority: 499
  MPs vote to scrap long-gun registry   MPs voted by a clear margin Wednesday to repeal the federal long-gun registry, signalling for the first time since the program was adopted 14 years ago that it is headed for the scrap heap, despite police assertions that it saves lives.   [ ..... ]   The bill passed by a ...
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