Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mike McBane and Stuart Trew note that Canada can’t afford to sign on to yet another massive giveaway to big pharma: An Ipsos…
Jason Kenney
Motion 312 and reproductive rights: pay attention to what Tories do, not to what they say
What? What? I’m pro-choice and pro-life, Edmonton St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber seems to say in this shot grabbed from his website. Below: Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth. In this…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Chris Hayes notes that Mitt Romney’s $50,000-a-plate dinner caught on video represents a rare glimpse inside the U.S.’ plutocracy – as well…
A pattern to Jason Kenney’s online petition data mining
This story today rang a bell for me: “Jason Kenney’s office mined online petition to target message to gay Canadians.” Kenney’s office has done this before. About two years ago,…
The Roma, Jason Kenny, And The University of Haifa
The Roma Community Centre of Toronto, Canada has sent a letter–their second, because their first from earlier this month has not been responded to–to the University of Haifa in Northern…
Victory for Lucene Charles!
Lucene Charles, the St. Vincent native who has been battling deportation from Canada for some time now because of her failure to fill out the proper immigration papers years ago,…
Move along, nothing to see here
And certainly no reason for worry about this afterthought as the Cons decide which immigrants they’d like to throw out of Canada on their respective ears (or prevent from arriving):…
A Robocall Invitation to Toronto Mayor’s Rob “Ford Fest” Barbecue
The term “robocall” reminds the majority of Canadians of the robocalls election fraud perpetrated during the May 2011 federal election. The robocalls and related U.S.-style voter suppression methods robbed thousands…
Kenney Among The Bishops
Denni Gruending offers this guest piece by ex-Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishop director Joe Gunn: In a move that has no precedent in recent memory, the Canadian Conference of Catholic…
Jason Kenney’s week
From a Toronto Star editorial on refugee health care cuts on Wednesday: Daniel Garcia Rodriguez has experienced some of the best, and worst, that Canada can offer. The best includes…
An Update on Sayed Sharifi
After many setbacks, Sayed Shah Sarifi, the brave young Afghan interpreter who recently arrived in Toronto thanks to his own tenacity and the efforts of people of goodwill, has landed…
Jason Kenney’s immigration department at work
Heartless, baby, just heartless: “Toronto grandmother, 70, deported to Sri Lanka.” This is a 70 year old grandmother who has trouble walking on her own, with no family left back…
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Tim Harper suggests that the Cons are running out of options to try to push the Gateway pipeline on a thoroughly-opposed public in…
Lawyer on the Kenney letter
Lawyer Lorne Waldman speaks to CBC about the open letter that he and 80 plus lawyers wrote to Jason Kenney that was published in the Globe today. It’s a very…
Even lawyers…
…80 of them, in fact, are sure that CPC attack dawg, Jason Kenney, lied about his involvement in the “repatriation” of Conrad Black! Watch out J-boy! When 4 score of…
Kenney gets a letter
In the Globe today: “An open letter to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.” Dear Mr. Kenney We, the undersigned, all members of the Ontario Bar, agree with the statement of Guidy…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Monbiot discusses the effect of inegalitarian and austerian policies imposed by the UK Conservatives: (T)he neoliberal programme has closed down political…
Kenney’s bogus stats on refugee health care
Jason Kenney has come out with some stats on refugee claimants from ‘safe’ countries and the cost of their using Canadian health care. They will likely come off as sounding…
Sayed Shah Sharifi Arrives In Canada
Thanks to the doggedness of The Toronto Star, for whom social justice and journalistic integrity are more than mere words, the long tale of Sayed Shah Sharifi, the Afghan interpreter,…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Official White Supremacist Portrait: PHOTO
Our Ford, the (Lord) Mayor of Toronto is rabidly right-wing. No doubt about that. After all, he recently proposed exiling Toronto’s convicted criminals, most of whom tend to be persons…