It's a scene that keeps repeating itself in the streets of Montreal.A few hundred demonstrators set out on a peaceful march to protest against a totalitarian by-law limiting freedom of assembly.Only to be kettled by the riot squad, and then arrested. Like they were again this weekend.Read more »
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Gawd. I should have remembered I'm living in Harperland, not Wonderland.I should have realized why that damm cat was laughing at me eh?I should have known you can't trust those two old Con artists, Steve and Jimbo, no matter what they say.I should have known it was all a scam.Read more » When I first saw the pictures I must admit my heart started beating faster.For a moment I thought that Spring had arrived in Harperland. Finally.But it wasn't the Maple Spring eh?It was the Maple Winter.Read more » Golly. It's hard to believe that the horrible year of 2012 in Harperland is finally almost over.And that I'm still standing. For if on this day in 2010 I wrote this:It was the worst of years. The year when the crazed tyrant Stephen Harper ripped a giant hole in the fabric of Canada, chewed on its heart and its liver, and lied through his bloody teeth.This year was even WORSE. Read more » Is hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence, who entered Day 20 of her peaceful protest today, your 2012 newsmaker of the year? Is it the Idle No More movement? The Quebec student movement? Beleaguered Toronto Mayor Rob Ford? Is it Kevin Page, Canada’s fearless gallant Parliamentary Budget Officer, who showed uncommon courage recently when he took the Harper government to court seeking accountability and READ MORE 
 2012 newsmaker of the year, aboriginal peoples, Amnesty International, Canada, Canada Politics, Canadian Progressive, Chief Theresa Spence, Chief Theresa Spence Hunger Strike, Featured, Harper government, hunger striker, Idle No More, Idle No More movement, Justice, kevin page, Manifesto, Maple Spring, opinion., parliamentary budget officer, poll, Polls and Surveys, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, protest, Quebec student movement, toronto mayor rob ford When the dark history of the Harper regime is finally written, historians will note that it took a very long time before many Canadians realized what was happening.Before they finally understood into what monstrous pit of moral depravity the deranged leader of the Con cult was dragging them.As he slowly turned Canada into a brutish prison state. Read more » Bottom: Photo from last Saturday’s march in Montreal celebrating victory and calling for free tuition. Pauline Marois, the newly elected premier of Quebec, announced that her government has cancelled the proposed hike on student tuition fees. The hike was repealed by the new Parti Québécois government. Yes it can be done even against steep odds. Students can challenge the neo-liberal policies of a standing government and win. As Naomi Klein noted in a recent tweet – “This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win.” The announcement by Marois was hailed as a “total victory” by Martine . . . → Read More: Drive-by Planet: New PQ government cancels tuition hike: victory for student movement |
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