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A great betrayal: Trudeau and the Liberals voted for Harper’s sell-out FIPA

Posted By Obert Madondo On April 23, 2013 · Add Comment
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  Justin Trudeau and the Liberals abandoned us during our greatest hour of need. And if there’s a greater act of betrayal, please let me know. On Monday, Trudeau and the Liberals voted with the Harper Conservatives to kill an NDP motion to stop the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPA) from [...]
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Boston Terror: Facebook Post Ponders Lethal Drone Strike On Watertown

Posted By Obert Madondo On April 23, 2013 · Add Comment
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By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  An American woman has created a viral monster! On Saturday, San Francisco-based Micah Daigle created a Facebook post commenting on the recent Boston Marathon bombing. She imagine an alternative narrative during the hunt for suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. A drone strike!
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Catholic Teachers donate $43,000 to support striking Porter workers

Posted By Guest Blog On April 22, 2013 · Add Comment
By: Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association | Press Release: TORONTO, April 22, 2013 - The Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA), together with local OECTA units, have donated over $43,000 to support striking Porter Airlines employees. The workers, who are members of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union (COPE) Local 343, have been on strike since January 10, 2013. OECTA [...]
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Federal Court dismisses former PBO Kevin Page’s application

Posted By Obert Madondo On April 22, 2013 · 1 Comment
PBO Kevin Page. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  The Federal Court of Canada has dismissed a request by former Parliamentary Budget Officer, Kevin Page, to clarify the office’s mandate. In his application, Page had also sought ”judgment affirming he has the jurisdiction to seek the information” relating to the $5.2 billion in fiscal savings outlined in the 2012 federal budget. Page had in [...]
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New Democrats and Elizabeth May to vote against FIPA

Posted By Obert Madondo On April 22, 2013 · Add Comment
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By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  Later today the New Democrats and Green Party leader Elizabeth May will ask the Parliament of Canada to side with Canadians and vote to stop the Harper’s Canada-China  Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPA) from becoming law. They will vote on a motion tabled last week by Don Davies, the NDP’s MP [...]
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Over 100 Canadian artists demand cancellation of anti-immigrant TV show “Border Security”

Posted By Obert Madondo On April 21, 2013 · Add Comment
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By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  Over 100 actors, directors, producers, directors, technicians and other cultural professionals have signed an open letter demanding the immediate cancellation of anti-immigrant TV series Border Security. The letter is addressed to National Geographic, Force Four Entertainment, Shaw Media, Global BC, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), “and all other producers, financiers, and broadcasters of Border Security”. [...]
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Idle No More to spearhead Mother Earth Day commemoration in Ottawa

Posted By Obert Madondo On April 21, 2013 · Add Comment
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By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  The Idle No More movement for Indigenous rights and sovereignty is scheduled to spearhead the commemoration of Mother Earth Day in Ottawa. Activists are expected to confront the Harper government’s agenda against Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. In an earlier press release, Idle No More explained this insidious agenda: to weaken all collective rights and environmental protections, [...]
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Clean energy progress too slow to limit climate change, says report

Posted By Obert Madondo On April 21, 2013 · Add Comment
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By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  An annual report by International Energy Agency (IEA) says the development of low-carbon energy is progressing too slowly to limit climate change. “The drive to clean up the world’s energy system has stalled,” said aid Maria van der Hoeven, the IEA’s executive director, during the presentation of the report to the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) [...]
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Stephen Harper takes partisan politics abroad

Posted By Admin CP On April 20, 2013 · Add Comment
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Harper’s government reacts with overwrought rage when other Canadian politicians express opinions outside Canada. So which way is it? By: Tim Harper | Toronto Star, Published on Fri Apr 19 2013: OTTAWA — Stephen Harper was representing Canada at the funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in London this week. Was this the proper time and [...]
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Boston Bombers Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London Attacks

Posted By Guest Blog On April 20, 2013 · Add Comment
Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left), 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. (Photo: The Lowell Sun and Robin Young / AP)
By:  Sebastian Rotella | ProPublica, April 19, 2013, 4:30 p.m. The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsaerov, the elder of the brothers suspected in the Boston bombings, in 2011, two U.S. law enforcement officials told ProPublica Friday evening. The FBI agents conducted the inquiry into suspected extremist or terrorist activity at the request of a Russian security agency, the [...]
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Scary Is “The True Nature of Stephen Harper”, Says PSAC (VIDEO)

Posted By Obert Madondo On April 20, 2013 · Add Comment
PM Stephen Harper. (Photo: Remy Steinegger)
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  The Harper Conservatives thought they were smart with those back-firing Justin Trudeau attack ads. They didn’t see this one from the Public Service Alliance of Canada coming: The True Nature of Stephen Harper. Watch:
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