Watch: 2011 Queer of the Year Finalists at Montreal Pride
Meet (below) Célio, Christine, Eric, Jason, Tim and Yenna, the six finalists for the exciting 2011 international Queer of the Year competition in Montreal, which runs from Sunday, August 7,…
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Ontario Provincial Election Opportunity To Defeat Stephen Harper
While attending a barbecue hosted at Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s family home, Prime Minister Stephen called for Liberal Premier McGuinty’s defeat during the October 6 Ontario Provincial election. This isn’t…
Shell Agrees To Pay Nigerians For 2008 and 2009 Oil Spills
AD_goi_shell_oct04oilspill_ogoni4.jpg In a historic move, oil giant Shell has agreed to take responsibility and to compensate Bodo fishing communities in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta w...
EnvironmAnt Canada job cuts raise concerns
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/04/pol-environment-job-cuts.html
The transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich and how this affects Toronto
Toronto at a crossroads: Will Ford's austerity agenda be derailed? | rabble.caExcerpts: Lost in the rhetoric is the fact that there actually is a "revenue" problem, a problem that is…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people…
Shape Up Or Ship Out: A Northern Perspective On Global Warming
Xavier Kataquapit is originally from Attawapiskat, Ontario on the James Bay coast. In his popular newspaper column, Under the Northern Sky, he writes about his experiences as a First Nation…
Canadians Embarrassed (Again) After Government Overestimates Its Carbon Reductions
NRTEE-logo-270px-eng.jpg The Canadian government is again being called out for providing misleading information about its commitment to reducing carbon emissions. The National Round Table on the ...
Liberal party leaders need to engage in assisted suicide debate
Despite the fact that the election discourse is gravitating mostly around the economy here in Ontario, with the PCs and Liberals trading blows on who can manage money in better…
Watch: Pink Balls in Montreal’s Gay Village – Summer 2011
This is a fantastic video highlighting landscape architect Claude Cormier's "Les Boules Roses" (The Pink Balls), 170,000 pink resin balls fastened to wires strung out at different levels and through…
In Gas Driller’s Canadian East Coast Heartland, A Day Of FRACtion
Shale Gass Fredericton Inn Thurs. June 23, 2011 044.jpg On August 1st and 2nd, a Day of FRACtion involving marches and protests is taking place across most of Canada’s Atlantic…
EthicalOil.org: Canada Tar Sands Propaganda And Insult to Canadians
Former federal Conservative operative, Alykhan Velshi, is at it again. As Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s communications director, earlier this year, he stirred controversy when he used Canadian government stationery while…
Our Libya Policy Is Just What Islamist Extremists Prayed For
The most important thing in the fight against Gaddafi was the one we ignored - getting the job done quickly.Time was very much of the essence in this one. In…
It’s Heating Up Out There
What a week it has been! With the backdrop of the verging-on-farcical U.S. debt credit crisis brought on by the tea-baggers in Washington, and the pieing of Rupert Murdoch, a…
Wishing Jack Layton A Speedy Recovery
NDP Leader Jack Layton announced Monday he’s is taking a temporary leave of absence to receive treatment for a new cancer. The Canadian Progressive World wishes Layton a speedy recovery.…
What Jack Layton Sees In Interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel
The intensifying scrutiny of Nycole Turmel, NDP leader Jack Layton’s choice to replace him while he’s away for cancer treatment is healthy for Canada’s democracy. But the negativity by the…
Opinion piece blaming food banks misses the point
It's time to close Canada's food banks - The Globe and MailElaine Power may be an associate professor, but that doesn't mean she isn't on crack. In her piece (link…
Jack Layton
Jack Layton’s news today was certainly upsetting. However, if anyone can fight an uphill battle it’s him. Best wishes for a speedy recovery, sir.
“Not an inch of space”
Never mind that Europe is supposed to be all metric all the time, here’s a quote relating to yesterday’s tragedy: "That the perpetrator apparently comes from the far-right scene shows…