The Canadian Progressive: Do Canadians Make Prime Minister Stephen Harper...
by: Obert Madondo Let’s face it, Stephen Harper is increasingly becoming a nervous, expensive and absentee prime minister. On the face of things, Harper has this annoying habit of finding himself in...
View Articlemark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ask General Kang:...
Hell no! If you can’t blame the failures of your policy on some flunky (or opposition party, if you’re unlucky enough to be ruling in a “democracy”) then what kind of leader are you? The best option is...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Frank Vibert writes that our democratic system includes more than just electoral politics, while recognizing that we all too often neglect the distinct role of...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Justin Trudeau lauds Israel’s “commitment to peace”
In official statement that reiterates the Liberal Party’ of Canada’s position on the Middle East, leader Justin Trudeau lauds Israel’s “commitment to peace.” The post Justin Trudeau lauds Israel’s...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canadian party leaders’ “callous devaluation of...
In open letter, 690 academics, community leaders decry the “callous devaluation of Palestinian life” by the Canadian government and federal party leaders, urge condemnation of the continuing violation...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: NDP Youth Reject Leaders’ Support of Israel’s Gaza...
The New Democratic Youth of Canada rejects party leaders’ uncritical support of Israel’s ongoing war crimes in Gaza, demands that Israel “be held accountable for its actions.” The post NDP Youth Reject...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: A Good Start
Posted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib: Major European countries are proposing a UN mission to Gaza aimed at lifting the siege of Gaza while dismantling Hamas’ tunnel network and rocket arsenals. From...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: When Confidence Fails
Few who lived through the Cold War with its constant threat of nuclear annihilation realize the role confidence played in preventing an outbreak of apocalyptic hostilities. Even at times when we...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Not That We Disagree, It’s That I Despise Your Ideas
When ever I read another article and view another series of photographs of the carnage Israel has inflicted on the civilian population of Gaza and then think of the Netanyahu apologists, Trudeau and...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Conservative MP, Commons Speaker Desecrated Parliament
A simple question by NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair during Question Period led to a bizarre exchange with a Conservative MP and exposed House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer’s incompetence and lack of...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Romeo Dallaire’s last Senate speech criticized...
Romeo Dallaire, the retired Canadian general who led a UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda during the African country’s 1993 genocide, used his last Senate speech to criticize Harper’s foreign policy. The...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Aaron Wherry reviews what the last week has told us about the functioning (or absence thereof) of our House of Commons – and points out that the most...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Canada’s Militarized Foreign Policy
Perhaps the ultimate legacy of the Bush/Cheney regime was the militarization of America’s foreign policy by which the use or threat of military force came to displace diplomacy as the principle...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Our Most Worrisome Endangered, Perhaps Already Extinct,...
You know it. I know it. Even if you haven’t really thought about it, you’ve probably sensed it. As our world sails into an ever worsening storm, there’s nobody at the helm. Just when we need them...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Susan Bibeau: Ottawa shooter’s mother speaks
Susan Bibeau, the mother of Ottawa shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, says her son was not a terrorist but “felt cornered” and “acted in despair.” The post Susan Bibeau: Ottawa shooter’s mother speaks...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Speech by Cuban President Raul Castro on...
In speech, Cuban President Raul Castro thanks Canada for facilitating the high-level dialogue which resulted in the normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations, maintains that Cuba will not not renounce...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canadian mining interests in Guatemala challenged...
In Guatemala, indigenous Mayan communities’ participation in community consulta, or consultation, helps to engage the government, and push back against Canadian and multinational mining companies...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Assata Shakur: “I am a 20th century escaped slave”
Cuba-based black revolutionary Assata Shakur says she fled “from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color.” The post Assata Shakur:...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: The Top Ten Wars of 2015
And a Happy New Year to you too. The new president of the International Crisis Group, Jean-Marie Guehenno, has issued his own New Year greetings in an article on the ten wars to watch in 2015 in...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson link inequality and climate change as massive problems which are generated by political choices (and thus amenable to correction...
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