May 2013
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10 Reasons Canada’s Tar Sands Suck
Canada’s right-wing Prime Minister is in New York today trying to convince lawmakers that the tar sands are okay, and that the Keystone XL pipeline should go ahead. At the same time, Canada’s environment minister is in London trying to convince politicians there that tar sands crude is the same as regular sweet crude, and should not be subject to a polluter tax. As a Canadian it blows my mind...
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 21st
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May 17th
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May 17th
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May 5th
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May 3rd
Indigenous rights are the best defence against...
First Nations people – and the decision of Canadians to stand alongside them – will determine the fate of the planet In a boardroom in a soaring high-rise on Wall Street, Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel is sitting across from one of the most powerful financial agents in North America. It’s 2004, and Manuel is on a typical mission. Part of a line of distinguished Indigenous leaders from western...
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April 2013
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Apr 28th
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Arctic Ho! Canadian Official Proposes Yet Another...
As the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipeline construction projects have encountered repeated setbacks thanks to aggressive indigenous and environmental campaigns and repeated assertions that opening up the Alberta tar sands would mean “game over” for the climate, Canadian officials are reportedly considering an alternative pipeline route. Alberta energy minister Ken Hughes announced Friday...
Apr 27th
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Canadian Government Under Harper Reclaims...
Security forces in Canada arrested two people on Monday afternoon and announced a terrorist plot backed by al Qaeda had been disrupted. The Federal Bureau Investigation had been working for the past year with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), which tracked suspects who were allegedly planning to attack a passenger train headed from the United States to Toronto. In the wake of the arrests, it...
Apr 27th
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Mark Zuckerberg’s New Political Group Spending Big...
Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, which bills itself as a bipartisan entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, has spent considerable resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes — including driling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and constructing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. ...
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 24th
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Canada’s Love Affair with Monarchy — Any Monarchy
The current Canadian government has a thing for monarchy. In fact the Conservatives seem to like it better than democracy. First it seemed quirky and quaint when they ordered portraits of Queen Elizabeth II to be put up in Canada’s overseas missions and promoted British royal visits. Then it got a little embarrassing when they reinstated “Royal” to the Canadian Air Force and the Navy’s official...
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Apr 9th
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Canada: Resource Profits Are Us
Two recent developments within corporate Canada help explain Stephan Harper’s more imperialistic foreign policy. Canada’s growing ‘petro state’ has driven a more extreme, anti-internationalist, foreign policy. With tar sands production growing from 600 000 barrels per day in 2000 to 1 600 000 today this basically guarantees that Canada will oppose or flout international agreements...
Apr 5th
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March 2013
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Mar 28th
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Mar 13th
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Canadian War Industries Flog their Wares at the...
Canadian war industries are flogging their wares at IDEX 2013, the largest weapons bazaar in the Middle East and North Africa.  Over 1,000 exhibitors from 52 countries and over 60,000 attendees have converged on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for IDEX 2013.  This huge arms show is a golden opportunity for Canadian military exporters to schmooze with procurement officials from the US client states...
Mar 12th
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Mar 11th
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Could Pipeline Politics in the USA Derail Stephen...
The protests against the Keystone XL pipeline have already focused a great deal of attention on the Conservatives’ terrible environmental record and if Obama rejects the project, it would deliver a major blow to their tar sands oriented economic policy. It could also precipitate a sort of existential crisis within the ardently pro-US Conservative party. ...
Mar 8th
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Mar 7th
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Mar 5th
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Sylvia McAdam
Lawlady05 @SylviaMcAdam Indigenous sovereignty is about protection of land & water. The fundamental human right to clean water is critical to humanity, its life. Lawlady05 @SylviaMcAdam Indigenous sovereignty is the “last stand” before devastation to land & water begin. Nation to Nation means just that #idlenomore Lawlady05 @SylviaMcAdam Let me get you glass of water from the...
Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
February 2013
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 19th
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