The Canadian Progressive: Idle No More to spearhead Mother Earth Day commemoration in Ottawa

By Obert Madondo, on April 21, 2013, at 5:27 pm

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 [...]

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The Canadian Progressive: Budget 2013: NDP Urges Harper To Change Course, Put Canadians First

By Guest Blog, on February 25, 2013, at 10:45 am

Budget is an opportunity to start building a fairer, greener, more prosperous Canada By New Democrats (Press Release) |Feb. 21, 2013: OTTAWA – With our economy continuing to underperform and structural imbalances worsening, NDP Finance Critic Peggy Nash (Parkdale – High Park) is calling on the Conservative government to change course and take action to better READ MORE

 
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CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Dogwood Initiative: Political Hardball Against Harper, Enbridge

By Obert Madondo, on July 6, 2012, at 11:56 pm

We’re sending this e-mail because we want to make one thing crystal clear.

Despite the best efforts of Canada’s federal government to fast track oil tanker and pipeline projects, we’re closer to stopping them than we’ve ever been. We’ve got a plan to play political hardball that can finish the job, and you are a key player.

To recap, in the last six months Prime Minister Stephen Harper has labelled opponents of Enbridge’s oil tanker project “radicals,” gutted protection for fish, limited participation in future public hearings and given government the power to overrule a review panel’s recommendation.

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