Again, Harper takes us for granted. Delays the "Election Reform Act" we demanded through all those robocalls protests and legal challenges.
Elizabeth May: Harper making Canada the North Korea of environmental law by withdrawing from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Bradley Manning was on a mission to inspire us with the courage to confront the atrocities of war and the US war on terror!
#freebrad: Live-Tweeting Bradley Manning trial before US military court, where the whistleblower has reportedly pleaded guilty to providing Wikileaks with confidential military material, and denied the more serious charges of "aiding the enemy".
Liberal leadership race: Garneau challenges Trudeau to one-on-one duel, urges him to stop "hiding behind a carefully crafted public relations campaign"
IRS Tax Collection: Evasion of the US or Invasion of Canada? Green Party of Canada asks, urges the government of Canada to reject the U.S. FATCA law.
In Hungary, racist taxpayer-funded Harper Conservative government billboards target Roma ethnic people, dissuades them from seeking asylum to Canada.
Honduras passes new Canada-supported anti-democratic mining law, "but the fight is not over", so say Mining Watch Canada and Honduran environmentalists.
StatsCan analysis of income trends among Canadian taxfilers from 1982 to 2010 confirms the concerns expressed by Occupy protesters and other progressive social movements
"Common Causes" to hold solidarity actions across the country before officially launching in Ottawa today.
In response to the death of Internet activist , Reddit programmer and extraordinary hacker, Aaron Swartz, Anonymous has declared “war” on the U.S. government with an operation code-named “Operation Last Resort”.
Sudanese teacher and activist Jalila Khamis Koko was acquitted of all charges except those related to “spreading false news”.
Barack Obama took the ceremonial oath of office on Monday for his second term as President of the Unites States. Throughout his historic Inaugural Address, Obama repudiated the right-wing agenda. He urged Americans to cooperate on immigration reform, climate change, gay rights, economic inequality & other progressive issues. To emphasize this call collective action, Obama used the phrase “We, the people”, which is part of the U.S. Constitution’s preamble, five times. Here is the Inaugural Address in full:
Once again, indisputable proof of climate change!
Michèle Audette, President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, urges PM Harper to honour hunger-striking Chief Theresa Spence's demand to meet with First Nations leaders on Jan 24, 2013. "Thus, Canada will remember you as a leader who is willing to open dialogue as did your predecessor, Mr. Brian Mulroney, when he asked for a Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples."
As Canada’s 21st prime minister, Martin will be remembered as the architect of the 2005 Kelowna Accord, which envisioned the investment of $5 billion over 10 years for education and social welfare programs for aboriginal Canadians. The project fell apart when Stephen Harper took over that year as prime minister, and cut the funding.
The Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Christ Lewis, has taken to YouTube to silence self-righteous racists who are urging the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to apply force against the Idle No More movement’s peaceful protest actions. Only last week, an extremist Ontario Superior Court judge slammed the OPP for not nuking an #IdleNoMore protest.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Harriet Sachs says police behaviour during the 2010 Toronto G20 protests had “the eerie overtones of the worst sort of abuse orchestrated by fascist states.” She passed the harsh verdict while ruling on the case of Eva Marie Botten, an activist whose Charter rights were infringed when Toronto police mass-arrested 263 protesters.
Hunger-striking Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence is the reincarnation of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. She is becoming the greatest moral and political leader of our time. In fact, Chief Theresa Spence’s courage and sacrifice already eclipses that of South Africa’s globally-celebrated anti-apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela.
Hunger-striking Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence is the reincarnation of Mahatma Ghandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. She is becoming the greatest moral and political leader of our time. In fact, Chief Theresa Spence's courage and sacrifice already eclipses that of South Africa's globally-celebrated anti-apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela. Mandela came to us pre-packaged. Challenging the narrative of his heroism is mission impossible. Chief Spence's narrative is unveiling right before the world's eyes. It's impossible to embellish.