This is a quote from a popular article on Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama and the corrupting influence of corporate power, by award-winning journalist & activist, Chris Hedges. In the article, Hedges asks the same questions Canadian progressives now ask themselves everyday: What happened to Canada? “Global financiers
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CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Council of Canadians: Today We Celebrate Canada
Below is a brief message to Canadians and other progressives around the world from Canada’s biggest progressive citizen’s organization. Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians has members and chapters across Canada. It works “to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Harper v. Canada: News Headlines On June 25 2012
Make no mistake about it. Canada’s progressive and democratic forces are converging around Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his burgeoning elected dictatorship. And Harper and his merry bunch of Conservative praise-fingers are feeling the heat. At least according to the headlines in the last couple of days: Election result challenge
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: No, Nenshi isn’t running for the Liberals
No, Liberals and progressives alike, Nenshi isn’t throwing his hat into the provincial or federal arenas as either an MP or a leadership candidate. He’s happiest where he is right now. Twenty years of schooling, networking, and focus has brought him to the mayoralty of Calgary. His efforts at the
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: PIPSC, Fat Cats, and Disturbing Dreams
I had the pleasure of attending the PIPSC Fat Cats game on Sunday – an exciting affair that the FCs won in the ninth with a sensational walk off steal at home plate by LaDale Hayes, who also made an extraordinary diving catch earlier in the game. Though American, he
Continue readingMy Own Experience with Marijuana. Please Read Before You Decide Pot is Okay!
I was really happy when I heard Thomas Mulcair’s position on marijuana as follows (in reasponse to question from Global news reporter Tom Clark on decriminalization or legalization of marijuana) I think that that would be a mistake. Because the information that we have right now is that the marijuana that’s on the
Continue readingTheSpec – Walkom: F-35s, robocalls and the erosion of Harper’s…
A great article by Thomas Walkom on the F-35 scandal and how the Conservatives have virtually no credibility to speak of.TheSpec – Walkom: F-35s, robocalls and the erosion of Harper’s…. I’d like to make a note that I for one felt any credibility they had was lost long ago when
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Why do the Progressive Conservatives exist?
If you wanted a honest conservative choice it’s obviously the Wildrose you should vote for. They’re forthright in their view on conscience rights, creating competition in the health care industry (read: privatization) and their own brand of fiscal conservatism. That’s conservative. If you wanted a honest liberal choice it’s obviously
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Finding New Strategies for Progressives in Canada
A few weeks back, Andrew Coyne wrote an excruciatingly epideictic column for The National Post on the virtues of free trade in general, stressing in the process how virtuous CETA (the Canada-European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) is likely to be for Canada. It was such an egregiously neoliberal column
Continue readingThomas Mulcair “A Leader” Ad Makes It’s Debut
Fresh off Easter break the NDP has released it’s newest ad, presenting the leader of the Opposition Thomas Mulcair to English speaking Canadians. The video is sharp, and a noticible return to the ads of old for the NDP where people talk about the person for whom the ad is
Continue readingThink It’s Okay to Feed The Homeless? Think Again!
New York City. Dallas. Houston.Las Vegas. Orlando. Philadelphia. All major US cities that have now BANNED distribution of food to the homeless in some form. Numerous reasons are sited such as; feedings lack both sanitary conditions and dignity( Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter), feeding “the indigent” (Las Vegas ordinance), stopping Christian groups from giving
Continue readingWhen Will The CBC Learn?
With the announcement of 650 job cuts at the CBC I’m left with one very poignant thought: when will the CBC learn? When will they learn that the Conservatives have it out for them? When will they learn that they have a loyal fan base across the country that would literally walk
Continue readingLet’s Take a Page from Australia and Demand Voter Participation
I was nudged into writing this via an article written by Bill Tieleman who, as his Tyee bio reports is a regular Tyee contributor who writes a column on B.C. politics every Tuesday in 24 Hours newspaper He was also instrumental in working to have the HST brought before a referendum thanks
Continue readingThe Star’s Tim Harper: Harper bets on big resources and kicks environment to the curb
OTTAWA Stephen Harper, finally freed of the constraints that of the minority years, had no need to deliver anything in his 2012 budget to placate his political opponents. So, unfettered, he delivered big time for big business and carved a path for a resource-based economy shorn of impediments for years
Continue readingLeft Over: It’s the Least Wonderful Time of the Year…
A lousy day all around…I can think of nothing I like less than the idea of Mulcair, the ex-Liberal, as the leader of the Party I would have gone out of my way to support and volunteer for, if anyone, and I mean anyone, running, would have beat him… Great..we
Continue readingwRanter.com: Even with a new leader, the NDP can’t defeat the Tories alone
I just can’t get excited about the NDP leadership race, which ends March 24 in Toronto, because irrespective of who wins, it’s hard to see it leading to a positive outcome for progressive politics in this country. Will Thomas Mulcair, the party outsider who reportedly flirted with the Tories prior to
Continue readingTrashy's World: One progressive party under one banner?
“Nope,” I said. “They’re too goddamn stupid.” That’s what Warren Kinsella told Bobby Kennedy Jr. when asked if the NDP and Liberals could ever be persuaded to work together. And he was right. As long as the progressive vote is split between the two parties in this fine country, Harpo
Continue readingFor Kevin Falcon, There Seems to be a Disconnect From Reality
BC Finance Minister Kevin Falcon recently announced a welfare-to-work program where, if you agree of course, you will be put on a plane and sent north to be trained and housed and of course find work. Sounds great. I’ve often been told in conversations with collegues that if people really
Continue readingThomas Mulcair Explains Youth Strategy
In this brief video from Huffington Post Canada Thomas Mulcair gives some insight into his strategy for not just increasing the parties presence among progressive voters but also details briefly how to get the youth demographic more engaged. Filed under: #ndpldr, Canada, Progressives Tagged: Thomas Mulcair
Continue readingFor Stephane Dion, a Quick Math Lesson/Thoughts on Seperation
Stephane Dion penned an op-ed for the National Post. (there’s an odd combination) detailing how the NDP’s position on Quebec separation, detailed in the Sherbrooke Declaration, threatens national unity. There is one quote I want to draw specific attention to, which to me looks like a future talking point that
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