Share French paper La Presse has summed up my fear all along…. that the Canadian general public is making a right turn in social and political stance after 4 years of conservative leadership. In a La Presse column Monday, Alain Dubuc argued the Harper government’s stance on abortion funding is just another example of a [...]
Share Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]. A recent book against Asian immigrants published by the right-wing research organization, the Fraser Institute, has raised concerns among the general public, to such a point that federal [...]
Share The following Vancouver Sun article is written by James Bissett, former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, and High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago. He’s also a member of the right-wing think tank the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies. (In another bio that I found, Bissett was described as follows: “He spent 37 [...]
Share This is shocking…. I can’t imagine how Harper could still brag about his government being a fighter for democracy and human rights. He’ll be more of a dictator if he’s given full power i.e. a majority. (thanks chinktalk for the link) Critic slams Harper gov’t on human rights reports The Conservative government has decided [...]
Share Why would the feds do this? Is that because any zero-emission cars will hamper the oil sands industry of Harper et al’s hometown of Alberta? It’s hard not to think that way, especially when analysts yesterday predict gas prices at the pump might climb to $2.25 a litre a year from now. AFP – [...]
Share Let’s expose one more time the kind of double standard the West uses when it comes to human rights. Canada Continues Offensive Campaign Opposing UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples First Nations Leadership Council release – In a statement delivered to a meeting of the Organization of American States Working Group to [...]
Share The Vancouver Sun has a story today which captures my eyes, titled “Prestigious journal criticizes Canada“: One of the world’s most influential journals has lambasted the Harper government for its “manifest disregard for science.” Under the headline “Science in Retreat,” an editorial in Thursday’s issue of the British journal Nature says Canada’s Conservative government [...]
Share Bernier should explains WHY the inclusion was wrong before he directed his staff to cover things up. What if they were the “right” inclusion? The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement: “I regret the embarrassment caused by the public disclosure of the manual used in the department’s torture [...]
Share OK, now our government admits from within that our “closest friends” are alleged abusers, too. The Tories should adopt the same strict degree of scrutiny and strong demand to push for human rights in the US as they would push China — if the Tories still want to portray themselves as human rights fighter [...]
Share CP – Britain’s top law societies have issued a stinging rebuke to the Canadian government concerning its complicity in the upcoming war crimes trial of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr. The heads of the five legal organizations sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying he must take “urgent action” in securing Khadr’s release. [...]
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