By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 14, 2013: Showing their burgeoning disdain for accountability, transparency, financial oversight and the independence of federal watchdogs, the Harper Conservatives earlier this week nuked a progressive NDP motion on the role of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). The motion, tabled by the Official Opposition’s Finance critic, Peggy Nash, sought to extend the mandate READ MORE
 accountability, Canada, Canada Politics, Canadian Democracy, Conservatives, Democratic Institutions, Diamond Jubilee Medal, Featured, federal budget, Federal Watchdogs, Figures, Financial Oversight, Government, Harper Conservatives, Harper government, Harper vs. Canada, kevin page, NDP, NDP Motion, New Democratic Party of Canada, Officer of Parliament, Official Opposition, opinion., Parkdale High Park, Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, PBO Mandate, Peggy Nash, Petro-state, The Canadian Progressive, The Ugly Canadian, transparency by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 12, 2013: Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s Internet surveillance Bill C-30 is dead. The demise of the deceptively christened Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act is a victory for the Internet. For Canadian democracy. For Canadians. Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson confirmed it yesterday when he announced that the Conservatives won’t be pursuing the READ MORE
Activism News, adam carroll, Anonymous, Bill C-30, Bills and Legislation, Breaking News, Canada, CBC News, Conservatives, Featured, Hacktivism, Inside Ottawa, internet, Internet Freedom, ISPs, legislation, Online activism, online privacy, online surveillance, Online Surveillance Bill C30, Open Media, opinion., parliament, police state, Public Safety Minister, rights, Rob Nicholson, social media, stephen harper, TellVicEverything, The Canadian Progressive, Twitter, Vic Toews, video, vikileaks “The Bank of Canada considered celebrating gay marriages, black hockey players, and turban-wearing RCMP officers on its new plastic bank notes” By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 11, 2013: And so the Harper Conservative-inspired whitewashing of Canada continues. Last summer, we learned that the Bank of Canada had nixed the image of an Asian-looking female scientist from READ MORE
0 Polymer Banknote, Aboriginal Art, Bank of Canada, Black Hockey Players, Canada, canada day, Canada Politics, Canadian Immigration Report, Caucasian, diversity, ethnicity, Featured, Focus Group, Gay Marriages, Inclusiveness, Institutionalized Racism, Jason Kenney, multiculturalism, Neutral Ethnicity, non-whites, opinion., Plastic Bank Notes, RACE CARD, Racism, Rob Ford, Roma, The Canadian Progressive, The Ugly Canadian, White Supremacists, Whitewashing If Brazeau stays on as an independent Senator, he’ll cost Canadian taxpayers at lease $7-million by the time he retires approximately 37 years from today. By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 8, 2013: Conservative Sen. Patrick Brazeau’s charges of assault and sexual assault offer Prime Minister Stephen Harper the opportunity to do the right thing concerning his much-touted READ MORE
algonquin, assault, Canada, Canada Politics, Canadian Democracy, Canadian Taxpayers, Chief Theresa Spence, congress of aboriginal peoples, Conservative caucus, Conservative Senator, Featured, Figures, First Nations, Government, Idle No More, Independent Senator, Inside Ottawa, Kitigan Zibi First Nation, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Woman, opinion., Parliament of Canada, Patrick Brazeau, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, quebec, Senate Reform, sexual assault, The Canadian Progressive, The Ugly Canadian, Ugly Canadians, Worst Canadian by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb.3, 2013: Seriously, you can actually get laid in Canada for introducing yourself as NOT Prime Minister Stephen Harper and certainly having nothing to do with the Conservatives? For saying that you got nothing to do with the Alberta tar sands and Canada’s oil-driven foreign policy? That you got nothing to do with Harper’s READ MORE
#idlenomore, Activism News, Canada, Canada Politics, Canadian foreign policy, Canadian women, Conservatives, Featured, First Nations, First Nations Termination Plan, Harper government, human rights, Pick-up Line, rights, stephen harper, Tar Sands, The Canadian Progressive, The Ugly Canadian, Theresa Spence, tv, video, youtube More than 1000 youth from across Canada are currently gathered in Ottawa for the for the PowerShift 2012 conference. The 4-day conference seeks to push the Harper Government to act to stop climate change and social injustice, and end annual handouts of “$1.4 billion in taxpayer money to the richest, dirtiest corporations in the world.” More on The Canadian Progressive’s coverage of PowerShift 2012: The [...] Electric young keynote activist speakers and live performances before 1000 attendees kicked off the Power Shift 2012 conference last night at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau. MCs Brigette DePape and Clayton Thomas-Mueller of set the tone for the rest of the night – and the 4-day conference – when they invited the participants to rousing chants of: [...]
Activism, Annie St. George, Blog, Brigette DePape, Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Clayton Thomas-MuelleR, climate change, Cree Indian prophesy, environment, First Nations, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois CLASSE, Gatineau, Harper government, Joshua Kahn Russell, Lubicon Cree First Nation, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Power Shift 2012 Canada, PowerShift 2012, Progressive Organizations, protest, racial justice, rights, social injustice, stop Harper, The Canadian Progressive by We Are Powershift From October 26 to October 29, 1000 youth from across the country will converge at Power Shift 2012 in Ottawa to galvanize a broad movement pushing the federal government to aggressively reduce carbon emissions and tackle the corporations that are fueling climate change, building on the momentum of the tar sands pipeline [...]
Activism, Bill McKibben, Blog, Canada, carbon emissions, Civil Disobedience, climate change, climate justice, Corporations, environment, First Nations, Gatineau, Harper government, Maple Spring Quebec, Movement, naomi klein, Ottawa, parliament hill, pipelines, Power Shift 2012, Power Shift 2012 Canada, Press release, Progressive Organizations, protest, rights, social injustice, Tar Sands, The Canadian Progressive, Winona LaDuke, Youth The Canadian Progressive’s publisher and progressive political blogger, Obert Madondo, will be reporting on the 4-day Power Shift 2012 conference taking place in Ottawa and Gatineau on October 26-29, 2012. More than 1000 youth from across Canada are expected for the conference, which seeks to “galvanize a broad movement” pushing the Harper Government to act to [...]
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