National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of
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A Different Point of View....: Great minds agree on petitions….
Someone else agrees with me that petitions don’t work – unless they’re part of a larger campaign. I wrote about this in my post… Petitions next to useless in campaign to defend CBC Contact Nick Fillmore at fillmore0274@rogers.com
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Petitions next to useless in campaign to defend CBC
At least half-a-dozen petitions aimed at stopping Stephen Harper from taking control of the CBC are buzzing around the Internet. Pressure groups are putting a lot of effort into this campaign, but the question is – does sending petitions to Ottawa have any effect on the Conservatives. Are they just
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Network formed to take on Harper not living up to its potential
Ever since Stephen Harper took over in Ottawa seven years ago, Canada has needed a strong and powerful social/political movement to stop, or at least slow down, the many destructive measures being carried out by the Conservatives. Finally, in September, 2012, Common Causes, a loosely-knit network of more than 50
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Network formed to take on Harper not living up to its potential
Ever since Stephen Harper took over in Ottawa seven years ago, Canada has needed a strong and powerful social/political movement to stop, or at least slow down, the many destructive measures being carried out by the Conservatives. Finally, in September, 2012, Common Causes, a loosely-knit network of more than 50
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Pension funds and church rebelover excessive corporate salaries
A shareholder revolt at struggling Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold producer, will hopefully lead to protests that will encourage the Canadian government and business to introduce limits on out-of-control executive pay. The public just learned that Barrick paid an enormous signing bonus of $11.9-million to high-flying international executive John
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: WILL THE REAL GWYN MORGAN PLEASE STAND UP!
I have written this piece in an attempt to evaluate the actual contribution to society of a prominent Canadian who espouses extreme right-wing views. I feel it is important, from time to time, to compare actual performance to stated principles. If you find this critique of interest, please send the link
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: How should we remember Ralph Klein?
Condolences and praise poured in for former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, who passed away on Friday, March 29, at the age of 70. “We remember what a force of personality he was, how driven he was, how motivated he was, how straightforward he was, and that we trusted him implicitly.”
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: ‘Freedom to Read Week’ right time to assess corporate media censorship
I’ve been deeply involved in journalism for 40 years, and I’ve never experienced a time like this when mass media corporations are feeding us such distorted, one-sided news and opinion. Corporate media is helping to facilitate a total change in the ideological fabric of the county into a nation of
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Liberal leadership candidate Murray wants to gang up on the Conservatives
If you want to see the Harper Conservatives defeated in 2015 – or at least reduced to a minority government – it’s time you started paying attention to what Joyce Murray is saying. Murray is a Liberal leadership candidate from B.C., and the only candidate promising one-time co-operation with both the NDP
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Bad news for the NDP and the rest of us, as Harper’s Conservatives pull even
It’s hard to believe, but — despite all the crimes, insults to Canadians and general incompetence — the Harper government has pulled even with the NDP in major opinion polls. The highly regarded Internet site, Threehundredeight.com, calculated all polls as of August 30 and showed the Conservatives at 33.9, the
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Vancouver news site praising CBOBC quickly becoming highly respected
“The Campaign to build One Big Campaign” (CBOBC) has become a near-unavoidable presence for progressive Canadians on the Internet,” says the Vancouver Observer. As one of the founders of CBOBC, I’m sure everyone in our group is pleased to receive praise from what I can easily say has become one
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: CBOBC has impressive Facebook launchnow expanding its capacity in other areas
With every passing week of Stephen Harper’s destruction of the fabric of our country, more and more Canadians are following the development of the ‘Campaign to Build One Big Campaign’ (CBOBC), hoping that huge campaigns can be developed to take the wind out of the sails of the Conservatives and
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Big campaigns must come following great success of BlackOutSpeakOut
The success of the BlackOutSpeakOut campaign in forcing the Harper Conservatives to send a defensive team of 10 Cabinet Ministers across the country is a clear signal that much larger protest campaigns can be even more successful in defending the rights of Canadians. The fact that more than 500 groups
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Join the Campaign to build ‘One Big Campaign’
Dear Friends, I won’t be writing a blog very often for a while. I have decided instead to focus my attention on encouraging hundreds of progressive groups and the top labour bodies to come together and form one giant, co-operative network to campaign and fight back against the Harper regime
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Highly-regarded anti-nuke organization becomes first Harper charity victim
Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), a highly regarded Canadian NGO that has been campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons for 32 years, is losing its charitable tax status. “We promote nuclear disarmament,” said staff member Andrea Levy, “but we’ve been told we’re too political. We do too much advocacy.” However, the
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Charities should not fear Harper bluster; have a right to use 10% for political work
The Harper government seems to have scared the bejeezes out of many charitable organizations about how they can spend their money. But much of it was bluster, and when you check the actual changes, very little is different and registered charities can still campaign and lobby on behalf of the
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Jim Doak can’t see the ground from his lofty tower on Bay Street
The way Toronto financial analyst Jim Doak sees it, Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath and groups such as the Campaign to build ‘One Big Campaign’ (CBOBC) are, well, pretty much evil! Howarth outraged Doak and his privileged, elite friends on Bay Street last week by proposing a two percentage point
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Campaign launched urging activist groups to build ‘One Big Campaign’
A new campaign urging Canadian social activist groups to work together under one massive umbrella to take on the Harper regime and his right-wing supporters is being born! The Campaign to build ‘One Big Campaign’ (CBOBC) is being launched on Facebook this week. The goal of this campaign is to
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Social activist groups can form powerful ‘One Big Campaign’ to take on Harper
Picture this . . . . The directors of 25 or 30 of Canada’s leading social activist organizations, unions and grassroots groups are hived away in a secluded location for a long weekend. At the conclusion of three exhausting days of discussion and argument, they announce they have created the
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