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Feb 4	Occupy talks: Indigenous perspectives on the Occupy movement -- Tom B.K. Goldtooth : Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. A social change activist within the Native American community for over 30 years, he has become an environmental and economic justice leader, locally, regionally, na...
Feb 4	Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is : Calling the Israeli regime one of apartheid is not rhetoric, nor is it an exaggeration or a propaganda tool. This is the reality in modern day Palestine, where the Israeli regime is based on discrimination, through laws, practices, education and most aspects of life. This apartheid regime is...
Feb 4	Another sleazy Alberta push poll takes aim at high-riding Redford Tories : Another squalid American-style push poll, which has all the hallmarks of a Wildrose Party operation, had telephones dingling in Alberta yesterday evening. Meanwhile, yet another legitimate poll, this one released Thursday by Return on Insight, shows the Progressive Conservatives under Premier Ali...

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The Tyee

Jan 19	What the Keystone Rejection Really Reveals (in Opinion): ENERGY & EQUITY: The ruthless, evolving nature of energy politics.
Jan 19	What Happened to The Tyee? (in News): Our server crashed for almost 12 hours yesterday. Here's why.

Peace, order and good government, eh?

Feb 4	Friday night: Blame Twitter. Someone was tweeting about a musician named Lincoln Durham the other day and when he included the magic words — slide guitar — I went off to see what I could find. The result is the set you see before you beginning with Living This Hard. Once I'd found Lincoln Dur...
Feb 3	Speaking of political theatre: While the National Post does its best to hype the threat posed by Iran, here's the news I can't seem to find from a Canadian source: WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2012 (IPS) - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not pa...

The Mark - News and Perspectives Daily

Feb 3	Obstinate Harper Fuels Pipeline Opposition: The proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to transport oil from Alberta to a new port here on the B.C. coast is shaping up to be the political battle of the year, if not the decade. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, stung by U.S. President Barack Obama’s call to delay a decision on the Keystone XL pipe...
Feb 2	State of the Internet: In this week's news update, Lindsey Pinto discusses Canada's digital deficit. Check out the latest instalment in the weekly segment below: February 2nd, 2012 Jan. 25, 2012 Related Link: (Un)lawful Access

Straight Goods

Jan 31	Rush on C-10 unwarranted: Omnibus bill deserves intense scrutiny and debates.
Jan 31	Aboriginals, greens and media: Strategy paper tars media as enemies of tar sands development.

Oye! Times > News

Jan 24	Harper must listen, or else Canada might face native 'uprising', B.C. native leader threatens: In case PM Harper fails to give importance to the concerns raised by aboriginal leaders Tuesday, Canada might face an Arab Spring-style "uprising", says a B.C. native leader. Stewart Phillip, grand chief of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs said: "We must do better. The honour of the Crown and the ...
Jan 23	Winnipeg police search for missing man Stephane Martin Bissonnette: On January 22, 2012 at approximately 9:00 p.m. while being guarded by Provincial Remand Guards at the Health Science Center Stephane Martin Bissonnette (29 years) escaped custody. Stephane Martin Bissonnette is currently awaiting trial on charges of Robbery and Firearm Offences. The investigation...

Filibuster Cartoons

Feb 3	Harper Derangement Syndrome lives on: If you thought Bush-hatred in America was bad, you should get a load of Harper-hate in Canada, the subject of my latest article for the Huffington Post. It’s a testament to the power of social media and the increasingly biased way most of us choose to consume our news that the Canadian party syst...
Jan 31	How to cover the primaries: Well, Romney won the Florida primary, and along with Newt Gingrich the main loser was the American news media. In a fantastic piece in New York Magazine last week, John Heilemann made the entirely accurate, but rarely heard observation that no one has benefited more from the inexplicable Newt sur...

Impolitical

Feb 4	Friday night: A late Friday night music addition. The blog is turning into a music blog toward the end of this week, I see. Anyway, came across this during the week. Put together a 3 hour soundtrack of music in the last few days so I was actually listening to and including some jazz. Yes. So here you go. I kno...
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Democracy Law Blog

Feb 1	Federal Registered Political Party Q4 2011 Financial Reports Now Available: The federal registered parties' fourth quarter financial returns for 2011 are now available on the Elections Canada website.
Jan 30	Parti Québécois Adopts Several Democratic Reform Policies: The Montreal Gazette reports on a series of policy proposals that were adopted by the Parti Québécois at a recent council meeting.

Currents

Feb 3	The Creepiest House In Vancouver: Anyone know what the story is behind this decrepit house on Main Street where they keep mannequin heads in the window? No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Feb 2	Occupy Movement on a Low Boil. For Now: Isolated pockets of the Occupy Movement’s anarchic resistance appear to be popping up in cities around North America with almost random timing. The movement is sure to come back hard when the winter snow gives way to Spring sunshine — it’s not like the 99 percent’s complaints have been met (or co...

HuffPost Politics > Canada

Feb 4	On World Cancer Day, the focus is on prevention of the disease: TORONTO - Today is World Cancer Day and this year's theme is "Together it is possible."Every year cancer takes the lives of over seven million people worldwide, and World Cancer Day is designed to draw attention to the profound and universal impact of the disease.The Canadian Cancer Soci...
Feb 4	Toronto, union continue talks as midnight deadline looms for a deal: TORONTO - Talks are continuing this morning between the City of Toronto and the union representing outside workers ahead of a midnight deadline to reach a deal.The city has said it will impose terms of its latest contract offer if there is no deal by 12:01 a.m. Sunday.The offer includes ...

Pundits' Guide to Canadian Federal Elections

Feb 2

NDP Leadership Fundraising Predicted First Ballot Outcome in 2003: If the 2003 NDP leadership race is anything to go by, a candidate's share of the overall funds being raised for the contest could predict his or her first ballot vote-share to within 1.5 percentage points.

This Magazine

Feb 1

Partyin’ with the Young Liberals: The Young Liberals party in Ottawa // photo by Andrew Reeves When the life of the party throws a big bash, you attend. In Ottawa, on the weekend of January 13th, the life of the party is unequivocally the Young Liberals. They have descended upon the capital in droves for the Liberal Convention. ...

The Dominion > Canadian News

Jan 30

Saying No to CSIS: Dozens of groups launch campaign to not co-operate with Canadian spy agency MONREAL—Nearly 70 groups across Canada have joined a campaign to no longer co-operate with the work of Canada's national spy...

Grumble and rumble

Feb 2

Sugar, You are the salt of my life but you are killing me!: The Guardians of health and welfare in the nanny states all of a sudden woke up and identified sugar as a health danger. And of course, the government should tax sweetened drinks and food just as alcohol and tobacco is slapped with a heavy tax. They just have to save us from our insalubrious...

Pop The Stack

Feb 3

Demanding Leadership on Democratic Reform: I’ve been offline and travelling for a while if you’ve been wondering about the radio silence (I know, unlikely). But I’m back now, living for the next two years in the self-declared “Greatest Democracy on Earth™”. We’ll see if they have any better luck than we are having up in Canada. With the w...

NowPublic > Canada

Jan 28

Ice to Eskimos: Nike plans to make life fun: Ice to Eskimos. Way back when, that was the saying. If you were so good at sales that you could sell anything, you were said to be able to sell “ice to Eskimos.” Now, before I go any further, I do have to...read more

Jesse W Kline's Blog

Dec 11

Nova Scotia’s war on private liquor: Charles Patton is the owner of Water ‘N’ Wine, a store in New Glasgow, N.S. that sells wine-making kits and rents storage space that customers can use during the fermentation process. But this small business owner may soon be forced to put a cork in it, if the provincial government has its wa...

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