CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Enbridge executive’s company awarded first crime...
Executive and company have strong and lucrative ties with the Canadian military and Harper government. Opponents of the Conservative government’s crime Bill C-10 were justified to argue that private...
View ArticleCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: WikiLeaks Begins Publishing The “Syria Files”
At a press conference held today, 5 July 2012, at the Frontline Club in London, WikiLeaks spokesperson Sarah Harrison announced that over the coming months, WikiLeaks will release a database of over...
View ArticleCanadian Progressive: Pussy Riot found guilty, sentenced to two years in prison
In Vladmir Putin’s Russia, a peaceful and legitimate act of civil disobedience earns you two years in prison. That’s the sentence a Russian court just imposed on three members of the Russian feminist...
View ArticleCanadian Progressive: NDP MP Denise Savoie resigns House Commons seat
The Victoria, B.C. MP says her doctor gave her a “health warning” this spring. She plans to leave politics and devote herself full-time to her family.
View ArticleCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Dalton McGuinty’s resignation speech
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has announced his resignation! McGuinty, who has led the Ontario Liberals since 1996 and been premier since 2003, stunned his caucus Monday evening with the announcement...
View ArticleCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Elizabeth May wants CSIS to weigh...
Green Party leader Elizabeth May is spot on again! She’s demanding that CSIS should weigh in on the Canada-China treaty, due to be ratified by cabinet this week. The Harper Government wants Canadians...
View ArticleCanadian Progressive: Nurse duped by Kate Middleton hoax found dead
The King Edward VII Hospital nurse who took hoax call about the Duchess of Cambridge, is dead. Jacintha Saldanha fell for a serious prank by presenters from 2Day FM, an Australian radio station, who...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Toronto solidarity fast in support of Attawapiskat...
The details, from the organizers: Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has begun her hunger strike in Ottawa today and she has pledged to continue until Prime Minister Stephen Harper (and the Queen of...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Spence hunger strike: FN Chiefs contemplate...
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | January 01, 2013 “Economic impacts are imminent if there is no response.” APTN National News is reporting that First Nations leaders are contemplating...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canada-Benin FIPA: Stephen Harper’s new scramble...
“A FIPA is a treaty designed to protect and promote Canadian investment abroad through legally binding provisions,” – Prime Minister Stephen Harper With the new Canada-Benin Foreign Investment...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: AFN to Harper: “We need answers to take to our...
by Assembly of First Nations | Jan 11, 2013: Here’s the Assembly of First Nations‘ initial reaction to today’s closed-door meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of his cabinet: Today,...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo sidelined by norovirus
by Assembly of First Nations, Jan 14, 2013: First Nations citizens have just witnessed one of the most important chapters in our recent history. Through the pressure of the grassroots, the sacrifices...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canada’s richest 1% grabbed 10.6% of all income,...
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan. 28, 2013: Remember Occupy, Canada? A new Statistics Canada analysis of income trends among Canadian taxfilers from 1982 to 2010, released today,...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: MiningWatch Canada: Rape Victims Must Sign Away...
by Mining Watch Canada | Jan. 30, 2013 Ottawa – Washington, D.C. – Oxford – Following years of denial, Barrick Gold is implementing a remedy program for victims of rape by employees of its Porgera...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: In B.C., more than 200 community living workers go...
More than 200 community living workers in the Kootenays and Salmon Arm to go on strike starting on Thursday, January 31. by CUPE British Columbia | Jan. 30, 2013: VANCOUVER, B.C. - Community Living...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Tension, merger pains to intensify at Ontario child...
By Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) | Jan. 30, 2013: Tension and merger pains tied to amalgamating two area child welfare agencies will intensify next week unless labour turmoil is avoided...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canada failing to close the income inequality gap
by Conference Board of Canada | Feb. 4, 2013: OTTAWA - Canada has been unable to reverse the rise in income inequality - and poverty rates – that occurred in the 1990s. Low rankings on these social...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: VICTORY: Canadians Killed Harper’s Internet...
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 12, 2013: Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s Internet surveillance Bill C-30 is dead. The demise of the deceptively christened Protecting Children From...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: In Canada’s House of Commons, A Profound Fear Of...
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 14, 2013: Those of us who live in Ottawa are quite used to the talk and sightings of Zombies on Parliament Hill. Today was different. It all started...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Harper’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan...
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 15, 2013: Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan resigned from Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s cabinet Friday after admitting that he lobbied a tax...
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