I’d recently wondered what became of the falcons that were popularized on TV during my youth. There was a project in Regina, at City Hall, to help the birds come back from the brink of extinction. Manitoba is currently working on helping the birds too. I’d wondered how the birds
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CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Obert Madondo: Today I End My Canada Crime Bill C-10 Hunger Strike
After 85 days on a hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new “Safe Streets and Communities Act” (crime Bill C10), it’s with great pleasure, gratitude and emotion that I announce the end of the protest. I’ll end the protest at 11.59pm today. I made the decision to end the
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Canadians Attending The Bilderberg 2012 Meeting
Editor’s note: In the past, Bilderbergers kept the list of conference participants secret. Now they publish the list on their “official” website. The list of participants to this year’s conference, taking place in Chantilly, Virginia, USA, from May 31 … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Canada Crime Bill C-10 Hunger Strike “Final Push”: Day 2 Update
Today, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, is Day 2 of my “final push” for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s response to my ongoing hunger strike against Canada’s new draconian crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly, crime Bill … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: A Final Push For Response To My Canada Crime Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Letter to Stephen Harper
Below is a copy of my letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, send today and copied to leaders of elected parties and selected MPs. May 29, 2012 The Right Hon. Stephen Joseph Harper, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada Langevin … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: We Are All Québécois: Solidarity From Chilean Students And Academics
Below is a statement of solidarity with the ongoing Quebec student protests from Chilean academics and student leaders. (English translation via Translating The Revolution.) We Are All Québécois! We the undersigned, Chilean academics and student leaders, denounce to national and … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Unpacking my Canada Crime Bill C10 hunger strike
Today, May 21st is the day 69 of my indefinite hunger strike protesting Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cruel new crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly omnibus crime Bill C10. This potentially-fatal act of peaceful civil … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: To start a real revolution, learn from Iceland first
The people of Iceland forced their corrupt government to resign. They created a public assembly to rewrite the constitution. The banks were nationalized. The people decided not to pay the debt that private banks created. It was a revolution, a … Continue reading →
Continue readingearthgauge: New details of Canadian government’s tar sands cheerleading campaign
This article is not new but I felt it was important to mention it given the shocking length to which our federal government is willing to go to lobby on behalf of the tar sands. As you likely know, the European Union has proposed classifying crude produced from Alberta’s tar
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: This is What Authoritarianism Sounds Like
IF anyone else wants to hear what open, transparent parliamentary democracy sounds like, the MP4 file is here: is.gd/35VNrS #hw— kady o'malley (@kady) May 10, 2012 If you download the 25MB audio file that is over an hour long, all but the first 4 minutes are relaxing music. Why? The
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Now it Gets Interesting #RoboCon
I’m kidding. RoboCon has been the biggest collective Canadian (Christian-) Conservative cock-up in the history of bonehead crooked cover-up conspiracy scandals. It’s always been interesting, we just didn’t collectively realize it on May 2nd, 2011. And its designers intended it that way, because as long as there is plenty of
Continue readingearthgauge: Global greenhouse gas emissions linked to economic growth
“A new study from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research suggests that a transformation of the world’s economies or a limit to economic growth may be needed to curb the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.” This comes from a recent article about the fundamental incompatibility of an
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Occupied Ottawa Returns: May 12 2012
Canadian Human Rights Monument, Ottawa
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ads As News A Swindle
It’s bothered me for quite some time how the “professional” media tends to cover campaign ads (particularly attack ads) as news, and thus goads the victim of the attack into responding in turn. It’s not a coincidence that the way to respond in turn happens to send money to the
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Ethincal Oil Orders Canada Revenue Agency to Investigate the David Suzuki Foundation
During the 2012 federal budget, the Conservative government allocated $8 million to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to crackdown on charities engaged in “political activities.” The purge has begun. Yesterday, the right-wing Big Oil lobby group, EthicalOil.org, dispatched a 44-page … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: For Iran, A Generic U.S. Drone
Apparently, Iranian engineers have successfully decoded America’s captured reconnaissance drone and now Tehran intends to build a copy. The Islamic Republic’s military captured the US RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaisance aircraft last December. Dick Chenney is not going to like this. According … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: US anti-immigrant group blames immigrants for global warming
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), an anti-immigrant group, blames Mexican immigrants for increasing carbon emissions in the U.S. The group bases its startling claim on a bogus report by the nativist Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which is linked the … Continue reading →
Continue readingcultural sn:afu: MoneySense magazine ranks Hawkesbury 150th out of 190 cities, people ask ‘what the fuck is MoneySense magazine?’
For a few years MoneySense, a Toronto-based magazine, has been ranking cities in Canada from best to worst. For the third year in a row they’ve decided Hawkesbury is one of the worst places to live in Canada, and the … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: US Blocking UK Travel to Canada
This is completely outrageous. Better hope no one with your name ends up on the US No Fly list. This move makes the financial blockade against WikiLeaks, look like a simple administrative dispute.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Yet another NEW piece by Mozart discovered
As you may know, I’ve written a novel in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is alive and well, and supporting himself by writing “lost” Mozart pieces. Another one was discovered earlier this week in an attic in Austria. According to the … Continue reading →
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