25,000 march against Harper’s proroguing of parliament
Protesters demonstrating against the Canadian Government's decision to prorogue Parliament march through the streets of Toronto on Saturday January 23, 2010. Prime Minsiter Stephen Harper has suspended Parliament until March 2010, with goverment sources saying that they sought the suspension to consult with Canadians stakeholders and businesses as to the next phase of it's economic action plan. (CP) 12,000 rally in Toronto, 3,500 in Ottawa,... [Read More...]
Harper kills parliament until after Olympics… what kind of democracy Canada has?
I’m very, very angry. Last year when the opposition threatened to bringing down the Tories with a coalition — which is completely legal and constitutional in Canada — Harper could still remotely, barely able to justify to ask GG for a prorogue. But this year… it’s absolutely unjustifiable… it really is an abuse of power. It’s clear that he is proroguing to avoid scrutiny on the Afghan detainee issues. And... [Read More...]
Harper in contempt of real democracy
OK, this is what one of the most developed western democracy would do in face of dissidence and accountability: shut them all up. Harper doesn’t like dissident noises; he doesn’t like criticism; he doesn’t like being advised, lectured and he doesn’t want his authority and power be weakened by the elected parliament. When he and his government is under an investigation, he just shuts down the entire thing and snobby walk away.... [Read More...]
Beijing, Beijing
Hello guys, just came back from Hong Kong and Beijing. What a good holiday, though it went too fast, as usual. :) Now I’m back home, should pick up writing again. Here are some photos I took of Beijing: beijing 2009 First of all, I’d like to talk about my Beijing trip. This is the second time I visit Beijing, the first one in 1990, right after the Tiananmen Massacre. As everyone can imagine, Beijing has changed from head to toe.... [Read More...]
Comic – the new goddess of democracy
On the 20th anniversary of June 4th Massacre
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. I’d like to add my rants. Nowadays, many Chinese people would say the crack down was the right decision, otherwise China wouldn’t experience mega economic growth in the last 20 years. But this is a logic based on the assumption that if there was no crack down, there wouldn’t be economic growth. It also assumes that China’s present economic achievement is the maximum it... [Read More...]
Pop diva Anita Mui ‘deeply involved’ in saving June 4th dissidents: activist
Hong Kong’s former pop superstar Annita Mui (梅艷芳) was “involved deeply” into the “Project Siskin” (黃雀行動), a pro-democracy secret campaign that helped bring hundreds of student leaders of the Tiananmen Massacre and other Chinese dissidents to safety to western countries between 1989-1997, according to Hong Kong media reports. [Read More...] Read More →
20 years ago, I was there….
In 1989, I was a college kid, real kid. On May 27, 1989, I was among the 1.5 million people walked the streets of Hong Kong. That was my first rally ever. And it changed me forever. Today, I still cry when I read/watch artciles/photos/footages of the Tiananmen Massacre. I will never forget. Read More →
Harper blames media overblowing ‘non-story’ over immigrants=criminals comments
OK, now I realize why our immigration figure story has “outraged” the Tories. Because they think other than the messages they tell the public, everything else is a “non-story”, i.e. convenient finger-pointing about any criticism to the media. And that’s why he blocks the media trouble makers from asking questions. What is not “gotcha journalism”? Copy-and-pasting his press releases and be his mouthpiece? Are... [Read More...]
Democracy for who?
What a shameful day for Canada. I heard Michael Byers of NDP for Vancouver Centre commenting this afternoon praising this “the right decision”. He used the reason for excluding Elizabeth May because she has declared her de facto support for Stephane Dion. And I’m sure Stephen Harper doesn’t want the televised debate to be dominated too much by an issue he’s weak at. And I’m also sure that Jack Layton is scared by having... [Read More...]
