Harvesting Fear of Foreigners: A Winning Conservative Tactic… in 1911
Autumn is upon us. Election Day is fast approaching. Canadians are asked to weigh the most important issues of the day when choosing their Prime Minister. Apparently, it’s a race…
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Harvesting Fear of Foreigners: A Winning Conservative Tactic… in 1911
Autumn is upon us. Election Day is fast approaching. Canadians are asked to weigh the most important issues of the day when choosing their Prime Minister. Apparently, it's a race…
Harvesting Fear of Foreigners: A Winning Conservative Tactic… in 1911
Autumn is upon us. Election Day is fast approaching. Canadians are asked to weigh the most important issues of the day when choosing their Prime Minister. Apparently, it’s a race…
The Year of the Snake : It didn’t start in 2013
Chinese-Canadians have been part of the Canadian landscape for over a century. As May is Asian Heritage Month, Canadians of all backgrounds take a look back at their contributions: past,…
For Asian-Canadians, the Year of the Snake didn’t Start in 2013
On February 8th, PM Stephen Harper issued a statement on the occasion of Chinese New Year. “As Chinese Canadians usher in the New Year, they can rest assured that our…
La Banque du Canada dit non au reflet de la diversité sur les dollars -OU – La xénophobie structurelle à la Banque du Canada: le jupon qui dépasse
Quand la nouvelle est tombée l’été dernier que la Banque du Canada avait effectué un nettoyage ethnique dans les images imprimées sur la monnaie canadienne, le faux-pas a fait le…
No Asians + No Blacks + no gays + no turbans + no aboriginals = No Canada -OR- BankOfCanada’s state sponsored xenophobia
The news of the ethnic cleansing of Canadian c-notes by the Bank of Canada hit like a bombshell last summer. It was revealed that an Asian-looking female figure was gentrified…
Top Twenty Things Harper Can Do with Money Saved from Cancelled F-35 Purchase
Looks like Christmas came early : the news leaked that the much-criticized F-35 military jet purchase, first estimated at $16Billion or $25Billion or $30B or $40B, has been cancelled. Did…
Alberta Tories in Tatters When Told to Go Home?
Perhaps, like first and second generation Canadians void European heritage, the Tories feel at home in the nation’s capital. After all, they’ve been there for years. They live there for…
The Guardian : What ails Canada?
Maple leaf ragged: what ails Canada? Country's increasingly hardline stances on immigration (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rachel-decoste/kenney-immigration_b_1411909.html), tar sands, indigenous people and Quebec separatism (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rachel-decoste/pq-immigration_b_1842349.html) spark soul-searching. On the topic of Immigration Canada is…
Stephen Harper trumpeted his lust for Brit colonialism in 2006 speech
At the heart of our relationship is the golden circle of the Crown which links us all together with the majestic past that takes us back to the Tudors, the…
Stephen Harper jubilait son admiration pour la colonisation britannique dans un discours de 2006
Au cœur de notre relation se trouve le cercle de la Couronne, qui nous relie tous avec son passé majestueux qui nous ramène à l’époque des Tudors, des Plantagenets, de…
La francophonie affaiblie au fédéral
MISE A JOUR: Le HuffingtonPost Québec publiera ce texte dans les jours qui viennent. En ce Jour de la Francophonie en Ontario, l’heure et au bilan du fait français dans…
Canada’s Selective Immigration Strategy: an Evolution (Part 6/6)
1991 – REFORM PARTY RHETORICThe Reform’s early policy proposals for immigration were seen as highly controversial in Canada including a policy pamphlet called Blue Sheet that was issued in mid-1991…
Feds to spend $30M on celebrating the War of 1812
A Minister pontificates: "Without , you don't have the expression of a clear, full Canadian identity; without , aboriginal Canadians would have probably died off; without ,...
Xenophobe, Thy Name is Hudak!
Ottawa-Nepean PC candidate Randall Denley: "People who come from other countries, I guess I call them foreigners".Almost 30% of Canadians in Ottawa are immigrants. The 2006 census counted 47% of…
Harper Haphazard with Brazil PM
The report this morning noted that they can't even look at each other. Harper showed his snake charm and Brazil's PM, a person of colour and a woman, ran the…
Help Harper Name His New Pet
PM Harper came out of a month-long media hiding last week to give his first full length interview since election day. Now he is asking the canadian population to help…
Majority out of reach, Tories say
Schadenfreude.The Star Exclusive: Majority out of reach, Tories sayThe adventures of a Franco Ontarian Viz Min Woman in Ottawa.
Fox News North: lies from day 1
Looks like the apple didn't fall far from the tree...Faux News North, a.k.a. Sun News Network is already following their brotheren's lead by making up news stories. The Diva is…