Watch Blood Dimaond movie Sunday night.
If you are concerned about human rights, and haven’t yet seen the 2006 movie Blood Diamond with Leonardo Dicaprio. CBC is showing it tomorrow (Sunday) at 9:00 PM. Set in…
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Petition to Obama: Call for reinstatement Honduran president Zelaya
Please sign this petition calling for the reinstatement of Honduran president Manuel Zaleya. The European Union and other Latin American leaders have all called for a reinstatement, but Obama’s statement…
Al Jazeera: military coup in Honduras.
From the Al Jazeera, here’s their report of the miltary coup in Honduras: Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, has called for “peaceful resistance” after the country’s military forced him…
HRW: Diamonds in the Rough.
Human Rights Watch reports on human rights abuses in the diamond fields of Zimbabwe. Here’s the summary from the full report: Zimbabwe’s armed forces, under the control of President Robert…
The Death of Neda Agha-Soltan: YouTube’s Most Important Moment
Last Saturday, I watched a woman die. It was not something I set out to do, and had I known what I was going to see, I probably would have…
Solidarity with City Workers
In my inbox today: OCAP STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH TORONTO CITY WORKERS The members of CUPE 416 and 79 who work for the City of Torontoare now on strike. The…
URGENT: Vancouver-based Canadian mining company Continental Minerals is on the verge of starting mining production in Tibet.
E-mail from Students for a Free Tibet that was forwarded to me: Join Tibetans and supporters in Vancouver, BC June 24th and say NO! to Canadian mining in Tibet. In…
Picket June 27 at MP Mario Silva’s Toronto Office
For those of you in the Toronto area — message I received from the Facebook group Stop the Canada-Colombia Trade Agreement: On Saturday, June 27th, the Colombian Action Solidarity Alliance,…
Entitlement
Puzzle me this: Why is it that the same people who bitch about workers sense of entitlement (you know, workers wanting decent treatment and wages) themselves feel entitled to free…
On "Immigrants" Who Protest in Canada
As our headlines have turned to the turmoil in Iran over concerns about election fraud and the resulting protests and violent action to suppress the dissent, I have watched with…
First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away. yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you…
Next Minister Mentioned in "The Tape"
It seems that Jim Prentice is next, according to this article at Oil Week Magazine.
New Tory Drug Law
According to The Montreal Gazette, A federal bill to impose automatic jail terms for drug crimes, for the first time in Canada, is headed for passage in the House of…
Raitt-Gate
So the opposition want Lisa Raitt to resign over the fact that secret documents were left at CTV for almost a week. I can see the rationale, especially since Harper…
Interesting Take on EI
I just had to point out Randall Denley’s column from this mornings Citizen (second time in a week, he’s on a roll!). Just a couple of the highlights: The Liberals…
Harper, Baird, Flaherty, EI and the Economy.
I’ll start with two separate paragraphs, from two separate articles (The first from the Ottawa Citizen, the second from the Globe and Mail: Baird falsely portrayed the Liberal scheme for…
Tory Authority Slipping
Randall Denley and I don’t always see eye to eye, but his piece today in the Ottawa Citizen was pretty much right on the mark. I say pretty much because…
The Positive Politics Challenge
In the wake of another round of Conservative attack ads,I thought it was a great time to remind liberals of the “Positive politics Challenge”. The goal is to engage the…
Chalk River
So the Nuclear Reactor in Chalk River, that currently supplies up to 80% of global medical isotopes has been shut down again. The reactor has been plagued with problems ever…