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The Harper Record
The Harper Record is one book in a series of publications by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives that have examined the records of Canadian federal governments during the duration of their tenure. Individual chapters or the entire book are available free for download HERE. The 47 writers, researchers and analysts who have co-written this book probe into every aspect of the Harper minority government’s administration. From the economy to the environment, from social programs to foreign policy, from health care…
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Five Parties, No Solutions: Canada’s Election and the Climate Crisis:
(By Ian Angus from Socialist Project.) For the environment, there’s good news and bad news in Canada’s current federal election campaign. Good news: for the first time ever, climate change is a central issue in the political debates. Bad news: despite much sound and fury, none of the major political parties is proposing effective measures for dealing with the climate change crisis. The differences between them amount to “Don’t do anything” versus “Don’t do much.” When Stephen Harper and the Conservative…
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Poetry and Socialist Politics
(From the Socialist Project. September, 2008) Poet and painter Joe Rosenblatt was a tremendously important icon of the Canadian cultural left in the 60s and 70s. Rosenblatt’s poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals in North America. In his latest book, The Lunatic Muse (Exile Editions), Rosenblatt links poetry to the personalities of Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen, among others. He pays a passionate tribute to his mentor Milton Acorn in a signature poem “The Natural History of Elephants.” In…
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All change in the US’s Afghan mission
(Asia Times Online By Syed Saleem Shahzad. Sept. 20) KARACHI - The direct costs of the seven-year “war on terror”, which includes operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have reached US$752 billion, if the current year’s appropriation of $188 billion is included, according to the non-partisan US Congressional Budget Office. With the situation in Afghanistan further than ever from being settled, the US response, much like the financial crisis, is to throw more money and resources at the problem. US General David…
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Winnipeg Walk 4 Darfur
Winnipeg’s Walk 4 Darfur will hold a run/walk on October 5, 2008 in order to raise awareness and funds in response to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The money raised will go toward humanitarian aid and impacting policy. The genocide in Darfur has precipitated a massive humanitarian crisis; 350,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced. Those who have escaped to refugee camps live in constant fear, hunger, and threat of disease. Right now, we have the chance to…
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Afghans will dig up graves to prove civilian deaths
(Reuters, Sept. 9, 2008) Relatives of Afghans killed in a US-led coalition raid in western Herat province have offered to dig up graves to support claims of large-scale civilian deaths. The Aug. 22 air strike in Shindand district has outraged Afghans and opened a rift between coalition forces on the one hand and the Afghan government and the UN on the other, which both say that more than 90 civilians were killed. The US military, which earlier disputed that figure, said…
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Afghan war will cost taxpayers $22B
(Canwest. Sept. 18) The Afghan war is going to end up costing the Defence Department more than $22 billion, both in actual money spent on the mission and future payments to rebuild equipment and provide long-term care for veterans, a military conference heard Wednesday. The figures are contained in a yet-to-be-released study by security analyst David Perry, a former deputy director of Dalhousie University’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. The study will be included in an upcoming edition of the International…
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Peace activists occupy Tory candidate’s office
(Peacenews. Sept. 20) Anti-war activists peacefully occupied the campaign office of federal Conservative candidate Trevor Kennerd to focus attention on the planned deportation of American Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman and his family to the United States. The occupation began at 10:00 AM Central Time today. The protestors intend to continue their nonviolent occupation until Hinzman’s deportation, expected Sept. 23, is stayed, or until they are compelled to leave. Trevor Kennerd’s campaign office is located at 1393 Pembina Highway in Winnipeg.…
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Dr. Jim Harding - Canada’s deadly secret
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Hilarious video: Canadian culture in peril
People in Quebec are really beginning to mobilize against Harper, with unions adopting the ABC campaign (Anything But Conservatives) made popular out east and the cultural community rallying against funding cuts. This latest video really takes the cake though, and no translation is required:
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