Canada failing to close the income inequality gap
by Conference Board of Canada | Feb. 4, 2013: OTTAWA – Canada has been unable to reverse the rise in income inequality – and poverty rates – that occurred in…
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A Specious “Compromise” for Future of Parliamentary Budget Office
In a way it’s a sign of how sick our democracy is, and how pliant our national media has grown, that the future of the Parliamentary Budget Office (and especially…
breaking news: federal court rules in favour of war resister jules tindungan
Another win in federal court! From the War Resisters Support Campaign: On Friday February 1st, the Federal Court of Canada released a decision granting U.S. war resister Jules Tindungan a…
A Great Ad. For the Liberal party?
Warren Kinsella called attention to this ad on his blog. Thanks Warren. This is a fantastic ad, glorifying the triumph of hard work, persistence in the face of adversity and…
LPC leadership race – I want some fire in the belly
Audio Podcast: some initial thoughts after the second Liberal party leadership debate in Winnipeg.
Ottawa and Hamilton: Significant hospital cuts ahead despite rhetoric from Premier-designate
Dr. Jack Kitts, CEO of the Ottawa Hospital, says he plans to transfer about 5,000 endoscopies to community hospitals and clinics as part of an overall plan to find $31…
The Baffling Response to Arctic Climate Change
By David Suzuki The Arctic may seem like a distant place, just as the most extreme consequences of our wasteful use of fossil fuels may appear to be in some…
Canada’s Lake Winnipeg is “Threatened Lake of the Year 2013″
Canada’s third largest freshwater lake in serious trouble by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 4, 2013: A report by a Germany-based international environmental foundation is reminding Canadians of…
The Internet and access to knowledge.
The Internet allows individuals to communicate and share openly. Individuals like Aaron Swartz have been working to use the Internet in their efforts to open up access to knowledge. What…
NSCAD students disrupt university board meeting to announce manifesto
Last week over 100 students from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, concerned about how government funding cuts will impact the future of the university, disrupted a Board…
The MP Who Broke Rank Most Often Voted With Their Party 98.6% of the Time
Most useless interactive graph ever, Globe and Mail. The amount of control that the party leadership of all parties exhibit over their Members of Parliament is ludicrous. One of the…
Health care is good medicine for Canada’s economy
by Conference Board of Canada | Jan. 31, 2013: OTTAWA – Health care is a large and essentially recession-proof part of Canada’s economy, creating more than 10 per cent of…
The government will also introduce a “Victims Bill of Rights” and new legislation dealing with individuals found not criminally responsible for a crime, Mr. Nicholson said.
This may be a good thing, a bad thing or merely a press thing. It would be good if the government actually gave some substance to this announcement: Story
Judicial officers should not inquire as to whether counsel are acting under instruction
Canada (Competition Bureau) v. Yellow Pages Marketing B.V., 2013 ONCA 71 is a useful source for the principle that except in extraordinary cases the Court should not inquire as to…
The King In the Car Park – Richard III Lost No More
The deformed skeleton recently discovered in a Leicester car park is indeed the earthly remains of King Richard III. Not just the identity of the man in the car park…
What The Hell Are We Thinking?
This articulate teenager, presenting recently at the hearings of the Northern Gateway Review Panel, asks all of us a question we need to ponder in our hearts: * What will…
Democracy Has Been Hacked
In some circles the preferred term is “captured” but Al Gore chooses to argue that American democracy has been hacked by corporatism. Regardless of terminology, he’s right. And it’s a…
Jessica Valenti on Why Feminists Are So ‘Angry’: “It’s not that I’m angry, it’s that I’m exhausted.”
Preach: Transcript here (h/t). Filed under: Feminism, feminisms, health care, pro-choice, reproductive freedom Tagged: abortion, contraception, Feminism, Jessica Valenti, Planned Parenthood, reproductive justice
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s All-Male Security Detail: PHOTO
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 4, 2013: Legendary is Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s contempt for women and the issues important to them. This photo of the prime…