Videos: National Stop Harper Day in Winnipeg
July 1, 2012: National Stop Harper Day in Winnipeg. Photo: Paul S. Graham Traditionally a day of celebration, Canada Day 2012 became National Stop Harper Day for Canadians in 12…
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Video: Stop Cuts to Refugee Health Care in Canada
Winnipeg, June 18, 2012: Opposition to the Harper government’s plan to cut health care for refugees is gaining momentum across Canada. Joining in a National Day of Action Against Refugee…
Bill C-38: Joyce has a choice! Let her hear your voice!
June 9, 2012: Citizens opposed to Bill C-38 pause for a moment outside of Conservative MP Joyce Bateman’s Winnipeg South Centre office before continuing to distribute literature in the constituency.…
Video: Freedom Waves to Gaza
What is your course? Our course is the conscience of humanity. What is your final destination? Our final destination is the betterment of mankind. Nov. 4, 2011: David Heap, in…
Video: Can boycott, divestment and sanctions stop Israeli apartheid?
On July 9, 2005 , Palestinian civil society put out the call for an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions to compel the Israeli state to follow international law.…
Video Report: Colonialism & Indigenous Rights in Canada & Palestine
As a part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 in Winnipeg, Paul Burrows and Cheryl-Anne Carr discussed the impact of colonialism on the indigenous peoples of Canada and Palestine. The similarities…
Video Report: Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping – The Truth May Hurt
Lester B. Pearson has been dead for four decades, but his imagined legacy, that of international peacekeeper, remains one of the defining myths of the Canadian identity. Horrified by our…
Yves Engler in Winnipeg March 15th
Foreign policy analyst Yves Engler will be speaking in Winnipeg Thursday about his newest book, Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt. Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012 Time: 7:30 p.m.…
Video Report: Winnipeggers demand Harper restore Canadian democracy
Winnipeg, March 11, 2012: Winnipeggers rally outside of Tory MP Joyce Bateman’s office demanding the federal government allow a full inquiry into the federal election robocall scandal. Photo: Paul S.…
Tar Sands, Tories and Ethical Oil – an interview with Shelley Glover, MP
St. Boniface MP Shelley Glover recently lectured Winnipeg broadcaster Michael Welch of CKUW-FM 95.9 on the virtues of “ethical oil” and the “balanced” approach of the Conservative government to energy…
Video Report: Tar Sands, Pipelines & Tankers
The National Energy Board is conducting hearings on Enbridge’s proposal for a pipeline from Alberta’s tar sands to the town of Kitimat in the heart of BC’s Great Bear Rainforest.…
Video Report: Aboriginal men march in Winnipeg for missing and murdered aboriginal women
Winnipeg, Feb. 14, 2012: Protesters pause outside the Department of Indian Affairs in Winnipeg to sing and dance during the Men's Gathering and Unity Walk for Missing and Murdered Women.…
Two years after the quake, Haiti festers
December 9, 2011: Angered by the UN-caused cholera epidemic that has claimed thousands, Haitians rallied at the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Base at St. Marc. Photo: from a…
The Problem
Filed under: Nibbling on The Empire Tagged: Stephen Harper
Winnipeg’s North End – the good, the bad and the unspoken
Winnipeg’s fabled North End, long known for its contributions to the arts, popular culture and radical politics, has always had a reputation for being a tough place to grow up.…
Gerry Caplan: Solidarity, not charity
Gerry Caplan is a former CUSO field officer, author of The Betrayal of Africa, a weekly, online columnist for The Globe and Mail, a featured television political commentator and a…
Video: Violence is not child’s play
Making war has been a human pursuit for thousands of years. Playing at war, it would seem, is at least as old. This ancient Greek toy, a model of a…
Stop the CBC Smackdown – Stop Harper!
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting continues to raise the alarm over threats to our nation’s public broadcaster and well they should. While Heritage Minister James Moore promised in May to maintain…