If you are planning a trip to Ottawa, you should also plan for the Attractions in Ottawa that you will want to see. There are a lot of great places in the area you could spend your time at. It is important to make a plan before you get there
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The Canadian Progressive: David Suzuki: Deniers are all over the map; climate realists all over the world
David Suzuki calls out climate change deniers being funded by fossil fuel interests, urges Canadians to elect a government committed to acting on “the greatest threat humanity faces” on October 19. The post David Suzuki: Deniers are all over the map; climate realists all over the world appeared first on
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Aylan Kurdi’s drowning death exposes Canada’s inaction on the Syrian refugee crisis
A leading Canadian refugee right group says last week’s tragic drowning death of Aylan Kurdi highlights the human costs of the Harper government’s inaction on the Syria’s growing refugee crisis. The post Aylan Kurdi’s drowning death exposes Canada’s inaction on the Syrian refugee crisis appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Dear Prime Minister: Time for electoral reform, says Rafe Mair
PM Stephen Harper addresses a youth delegation (Flickr/Stephen Harper CC licence) To: The Rt. Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister Dear Prime Minister, Most issues we face today we’ve faced before. For an older person like myself there is a strong sense of déjà vu. We’ve been through deficits and surpluses;
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Tsartlip First Nation blasts Steelhead LNG over proposed Saanich project
Tsartlip Chief Don Tom opposing another unwanted project – construction of a luxury home on burial grounds The Tsartlip First Nation on southern Vancouver Island is weighing in on a proposed LNG project for the Saanich Inlet – pouring cold water on an August 20 announcement by proponent Steelhead LNG touting
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: NDP, Green candidates oppose Woodfibre LNG outright; Liberal and Tory are different story
Green candidate Ken Melamed doesn’t see a future for Woodfibre LNG (facebook/Mitch Stookey) Local NDP and Green candidates are steadfastly opposed to the Woodfibre LNG project near Squamish, reveals a recent series of one-on-one interviews. Meanwhile, the Liberal candidate for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, is on the fence,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Burning: A summer of fire, smoke, ash and change
Photo: Province of British Columbia/Flickr CC licence Wildfires are ripping across California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska during this summer of 2015, the result of unprecedented droughts and record temperatures. Millions of hectares are being burned along with hundreds of homes. Fire-fighting costs are multiplying, the economic damage is
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: All this Quebec candidate would ask for? A “cellphone, a penis and lots of chips”
All Bloc Québécois candidate VirJiny Provost would want in the event that she was the sole survivor of a catastrophic nuclear attack is a “cellphone, a penis and lots of chips.” The post All this Quebec candidate would ask for? A “cellphone, a penis and lots of chips” appeared first
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe Mair on Trudeau’s surprise comeback, Mulcair’s continued strength
Justin Trudeau continues to defy expectation (Flickr/Canada 2020 CC licence) Churchill once stated that the best time to predict events was after they had happened and I think he was probably right. The current federal election is demonstrating that predictions at any time are pretty iffy but in a hugely
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Canada should put the brakes on misleading, ineffective fuel economy standards
Photo: Flickr/Scott Molineaux CC licence For the last several decades, the fuel consumption requirements imposed on vehicle manufacturers in Canada were the same as those applied in the US. The premise of the Conservatives and Liberals alike has always been that Canada has no choice but to emulate the US,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper and Clark: Quit goading First Nations with premature LNG, Site C work
Unist’ot’en Camp leader Freda Huson speaks to RCMP on July 15 (Youtube video screen capture/Stimulator) You’d hope we’d come a long way since the crises of Gustafsen Lake and Oka . You’d hope. This is, after all, 2015. Post-Tsilhqot’in decision. Post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission – out of which the Chief
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Why privacy matters in this Canadian election
While you are out this weekend enjoying the last days of summer on the beach and the RCMP come by to check whether your cooler is full of (gasp) beer or wine, you have every right to tell them (I would suggest politely) that no, they cannot look in your
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: The Harper Conservative economic disaster
Photo: Stephen Harper/Flickr cc licence Guest post by Doug Carrick According to Stephen Harper, the coming election offers a choice between the certainty of Conservative economic expertise on the one hand…or the risk of Liberal or New Democrat inexperience. However, a closer examination reveals a different picture. It is the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nations occupying Lelu Island, blocking early Petronas LNG work
The battle over Malaysian energy giant Petronas’ controversial LNG terminal in the Skeena River Estuary is intensifying, as local Lax Kw’alaams First Nation members are setting up camp on Lelu Island, near Prince Rupert – the site of the proposed project. “Basically we’re going to be occupying our traditional land, exercising
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC’s biggest fracking quake yet? 4.6 felt by residents north of Fort St. John
Republished from the ECOreport. A recent earthquake near Wonowon, 100 km north of Fort St. John, is the largest of over 500 seismic events in northeastern BC, believed to be related to hydraulic fracturing. It may be remembered as BC’s 4.6m fracking quake. “Likely induced by hydraulic fracturing” Though the connection has not
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Green Party platform criticized for being “anti-feminist”
The Green Party of Canada’s 2015 federal election platform is being criticized for being inaccurate, hypocritical, “anti-feminist” and harmful to women. The post Green Party platform criticized for being “anti-feminist” appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ashley Madison’s misguided attempts to put the genie back in the bottle
Ashley Madison’s use of DMCA takedown notices to social media platforms in an attempt to stop the dissemination of the site users’ hacked personal information “may violate the DMCA itself,” argues Mitch Stoltz, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The post Ashley Madison’s misguided attempts to put the genie back
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe Mair’s ‘State of the Union’ on Canadian environmental politics
Before I get onto the federal election, let me say I have never been more depressed about governance in this country. A recent note from a reader pointed out the atrocious record of the Christy Clark government in erasing emails, losing emails, redacting emails (that’s bureaucratese for blacking out anything that
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Mulcair asks voters to fire Harper over Duffy scandal
During the 2015 federal election on October 19, Canadians should use the power of the vote to fire Stephen Harper over the Mike Duffy scandal, says NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. The post Mulcair asks voters to fire Harper over Duffy scandal appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Another 35 intervenors abandon ship on NEB’s Kinder Morgan review
Artist’s rendering of proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker expansion Republished from The ECOreport. There have been complaints about the flawed National Energy Board (NEB) Hearings, on the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP), from the beginning. Former BC Hydro CEO Marc Eliesen withdrew last fall, calling the proceedings “a farce
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