A Dire Warning!
Could this emergency broadcast really have been about unusual activity in our Senate? Recommend this Post
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Canada Politics News Watch on Monday, February 11, 2013: Morning Picks
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 11, 2013: Senator Patrick Brazeau: Brazeau symbolic of Harper’s indifference to First Nations – Winnipeg Free Press Brazeau, Harper and Idle No…
Here’s some 2009 footage of Canadian Conservative Senator…
Here’s some 2009 footage of Canadian Conservative Senator Mike Duffy on CBC Newsworld’s Power & Politics. The title given to the Youtube video is 100% accurate: “a Drunken Mike Duffy…
Yet another Senate reform blogpost
Ideas to reform the Senate seem to be the Canadian version of the Holy Grail. This week, you’ve seen not calls for reform, but calls to abolish it with the…
Good move by the Conservatives (no this title is not a typo) on Senate Reform
Yes, I’m going to give Harper credit on something this morning, and that is the apparent decision to refer the Government’s proposed Senate reform bill to the Supreme Court of…
Why Is Harper Inc. Targeting Only Environmental Charities?
Thanks to Dr. Dawg for the link to this petition to stop Harper attacks on charities who challenge his agenda. Recommend this Post
Obert Madondo’s Canada Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Day 17 Update
This journal entry covers days 15, 16 and 17 (March 28, 29 and 30) my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives’ draconian Safe Streets and…
Obert Madondo’s Indefinite Canada Crime Bill C10 Hunger Strike (VIDEO)
Today, April 5, 2012, is the 23rd day of Obert Madondo’s indefinite hunger strike protest against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new Safe Streets and Communities Act (formerly omnibus crime Bill…
Obert Madondo’s Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Day 14 Update
This journal entry covers days 12, 13 and 14 (March 25, 26 and 27) my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives’ draconian Safe Streets and…
Harper Conservatives Target Registered Charities
So far, the Conservative government’s fear-mongering has targeted anti-capitalism movements, environmentalists, Aboriginal groups, activists, foreign special interest groups, so-called “issue-based terrorists” and other imaginary “enemies of the state”. Now add…
Obert Madondo’s Crime Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Open Letter to Parliament of Canada
I delivered the letter yesterday afternoon. They wouldn’t let me hand in the letter in person. Said to sent it by mail. My MP, Paul Dewar (NDP, Ottawa Centre), saved…
Obert Madondo’s Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Day 11 Update
This journal entry covers days 10 and 11 (March 23 and 24) my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives’ draconian Safe Streets and Communities Act…
The Canadian Senate Can Kill Bill C-10
Even as the Tory’s draconian omnibus crime bill approaches the critical vote in the Conservative-dominated Senate, Canadians must still hope that sanity will prevail. The Senate, though unelected and dominated…
C-10 Omnibus Crime Bill Illustrated
A whiteboard re-cap of Bill C-10, the Harper Government® omnibus anti-crime legislation that is currently being reviewed by Senate… The video urges viewers to contact the Senate to voice objections…
Want to know how you can stop Bill C-10?
It’s not too late! Canadians can stop Bill C-10. Watch this: Then, contact your Canadian Senator and/or tell the Canadian Senate: Do not to rubber stamp the Omnibus Crime legislation.
Musical Chairs Belong At Children’s Parties, Not In The Senate
I really have nothing to add here. The absolute puerility of the Conservatives speaks for itself: OTTAWA—The so-called house of sober second thought witnessed the kind of contest normally associated…
Conservative Senator: “Every murderer should have a rope in his cell”
The Conservative government’s universally-condemned omnibus crime Bill C-10 has a confirmed YES vote in the Senate. The name behind the vote: tough-on-crime Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu. Earlier today, Boisvenu said…
Appointment of Next Auditor General Betrays Conservatives’ Contempt of Canada’s Bilingualism
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Angelo Persichilli as his director of communications, he showed the Conservatives contempt of Quebec and the French language. The Toronto native can’t speak French.…
Stephen Harper’s questionable respect for democracy
When Stephen Harper won a majority government this last May, I wrote that one litmus test for the next four years would be regarding his respect for transparency, parliamentary procedures,…
The Senate bill is a distraction
The government tabled their revamped Senate reform bill yesterday, complete with a new nine-year term clause and the ability to reappoint a Senator if their term should be interrupted –…