Chief Spence, Harper, and the Attawapiskat Christmas
I didn't want to blog tonight. I just wanted to enjoy Christmas.But I couldn't get these two contrasting images out of my mind. Chief Theresa Spence slowly starving to death.While…
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Hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence gets 5 500 Twitter followers in only 40 hours
Today marks Day 14 of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s indefinite hunger strike. Still, Canada’s Prime Minister refuses to tear down his stubborn wall of silence over the peaceful protest. He…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Michael Harris asks why Stephen Harper is afraid to look Theresa Spence in the eye: (Harper) believes that the government’s lying about all…
David Suzuki Foundation supports Idle No More movement
by David Suzuki Foundation: Dear Prime Minister Harper, Two years ago, under your leadership, Canada endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, despite initially voting against…
Stephen Harper and the Christianist Threat
Uh oh. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Stephen Harper has admitted he is getting his guidance from above.Asked about how faith influences his decisions, Harper said that he…
The Day Stephen Harper Met Homer Simpson
OMG. Somebody call Interpol or the International Hipster Police. I knew the sinister Con operatives in the PMO are desperate, but this is the limit !@#!@The Con drone who pretends…
Why is Stephen Harper Afraid of Chief Spence?
It's hard to believe that a native leader from a suffering community, would have to go on a hunger strike, to try to get a meeting with a Canadian Prime…
Elizabeth May’s Green Party of Canada supports the #idlenomore movement
by Green Party of Canada: The Green Party of Canada calls on all Canadians to take part in #idlenomore events throughout Canada. Green Leader Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Walkom discusses the meaning of the Ontario Libs’ attempt to take collective bargaining rights away from teachers in the context of…
The Ikea Monkey and the Harper Kong
Gawd. If my protest calendar for December wasn't booked solid. And if I hadn't got plastered at the office Christmas party.I might have been walking around today with a sign…
The Alberta Apocalypto: The world as you know it is about to end! Again…
Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner gets ready to make a sacrifice to placate the mighty and angry Deficit God. Alberta politicians, not to mention the Legislative complex, may not be…
Harper saddened by NHL lockout, NOT by Chief Spence’s hunger strike
Once again, proof that Canada’s biggest shame is its Conservative Prime Minister. Stephen Harper is saddened by the ongoing NHL lockout, according to the Metro News Ottawa. And, apparently, NOT…
The Stephen Harper model for Wildrose power: promise free votes and deliver the Borg Hive
Singing along: What we were promised by the Reform-Conservative platform. Below: What we got. Alberta’s Wildrose Party blossomed at the edges of the same muddy spring whence sprang the federal…
Stephen Harper and the Newtown Massacre
Well I see that the camera caught Stephen Harper in an unusually tender moment.Claiming that he had to turn off the TV when the sights and sounds of the Newtown…
Pollster’s take on Alberta leaders’ popularity sets stage for long Prairie slug-fest
Shades of things to come? Alison Redford, Canada’s second most popular premier, gets ready to break a board with Opposition Leader Danielle Smith’s face on it. Situations Alberta politicians find…
As Theresa Spence’s hunger strike enters second week, National Chief Atleo calls for urgent meeting with Harper
by Assembly of First Nations: Open letter on behalf of the First Nations leaders to the Right Honourable Governor General David Johnston and the Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada…
Idle No More: A Drumbeat Is Heard Across The Nation
There are a lot of things I could write about on this crisp winter morning; NOAA’s updated 2012 Arctic Report Card, for example (hint: it ain’t lookin’ good) or the…
You Have to Register Your Car, But Not Your Gun
Stephen Harper abolished Canada’s long gun registry, considering it an infringement on gun rights. Harper wants to follow the American model it seems – where there are lax restrictions on…
Do you think it is easy to write history books?
As if the lock-out wasn’t enough for hockey fans, it looks like one long-anticipated stocking stuffer won’t be ready this year. We haven’t heard a peep from Harper since this…