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(MNN) - This is the “between the lines” translation of Canadian Prime Minister Harper’s remarks to the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) bankers in New York City. He reassured them he has our resources and will stop our griping about the theft. Canada is one of the world’s main providers of war material. He thinks the Indigenous can’t interfere as all their corporate Injuns are paid off .... |
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On May 14th, the British Columbian legislature elected more women than any other province in Canada, the Huffington Post BC section reported May 17th. This is of course great news for British Columbia, but what about the rest of Canada?
There is also a bigger issue at play here which takes precedence over female representation in politics, and that is the issue of wage equality. I .... |
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If ever we as Canadians become disenchanted with our government, we can at least look to the possibility of our youth having the energy and passion to change the future. A group of students from a suburban Catholic school in Ottawa- Ecoles des Voyageurs- had recently had a lesson on the negative effects of cyber-bullying.
Clearly the students had been paying attention to the lesson, becau .... |
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The European Union has branded Canada’s oil sands as ‘dirty.’ Canada plans to appeal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) claiming that the European Union’s decision would be discrimination against Canadian exports.
The main issue the European Commission has found with Canadian tar pits is the way in which the oil is extracted; they have determined that it causes an immense a .... |
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The federal government has drastically increased its 2013-2014 advertising budget for the department of Natural Resources. According to a May 14th CBC article by the Canadian Press, the federal advertising budget for 2013-2014 is set to increase by 9 million dollars compared to the 2010-2011 budget. This brings the total advertising budget to 16.5 million dollars. Included in the budget are adv .... |
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The Federal government plans on cutting Elections Canada’s budget by eight percent. The department is in charge of investigating the 2011 election fraud case, colloquially known as the “Robo-Call Scandal,” among other names.
The cuts have outraged leaders of the federal opposition parties as well as academics, average citizens and everyone concerned about the state of democracy in th .... |
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Many Canadians are pleased with the United States Senate committee’s decision to drop the proposed border fees for Canadians wanting to enter the United States. The bill was originally proposed back in April of this year by the United State’s Department of Homeland Security, and aimed at reducing the United States federal deficit by charging Canadians a fee to enter the country. This w .... |
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During the May 8th question period in the House of Commons, leader of the federal Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau brought up an important point regarding the way the government is spending its money. He objected to the Conservative action plan advertisements that were playing during the NHL hockey playoffs.
Trudeau has valid concerns about Canadian young people, and as he pointed out durin .... |
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In November of 2012, The United Nations General Assembly took a vote on whether to upgrade Palestine’s status from “observer,” to “non-member observer state.” There were 138 votes in favour (Huffington Post), and this vote was an important first step in beginning to recognize the Palestinian state internationally. Canada was not one of the 138 votes in favour of this .... |
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The nature of employment in Canada has been steadily shifting towards one based on contracts and temporary work, compared to full-time positions with benefits. This kind of employment has been touted in the past as more beneficial to both the employer and the employee because it allows for a degree of flexibility, however the downside of this trend is the lack of financial stability it causes f .... |
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Thomas Alexander McEwen was born in Stonehaven on February 11th, 1891. The Aberdeenshire town is well-known for its fireballs ceremony at Hogmanay, flooding and the invention of deep-fried Mars bars. Other more famous sons of Stonehaven include Robert William Thomson (1822-73), the original inventor of the pneumatic tyre; Hercules Linton, Cutty Sark designer from nearby Inverbervie; and Lewis Gras .... |
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In the United Nations (UN) 2013 Human Development Index (HDI) Canada had fallen out of the top ten most developed countries list, receiving eleventh place. Since the 1990’s, where Canada held the HDI’s number one position for several years, our position on this index which measures life expectancy, health, education, as well as income to determine general well-being of specific countries (< .... |
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It is no secret that the recent attack ads on Justin Trudeau by the federal Conservatives have failed to garner any public support, a recent Harris-Decima poll still has the Liberals at 35% support, even after the attack ads (Macleans). Perhaps one of reasons why the ads have failed is because of the undertones within them, which fail to make mention of any actual policies or .... |
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Canada’s international reputation is being jeopardized by the direction our foreign policy has taken, since Stephen Harper’s conservative government came to power in 2006. On issues such as the environment, and our relationship with the United Nations, Canada has quite frankly fallen short from the days of international admiration we once received under such Prime Ministers as Lester B. Pear .... |
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The Harper government is facing an investigation by the Federal Information Commissioner’s Office concerning allegations of the censorship of Canadian scientists.
According to the National Post, the media has had a difficult time accessing information on such issues as arctic ozone loss, and prehistoric floods. Specific departments such as Environment Canada are not allowed to ma .... |
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There has been a significant amount of criticism recently, regarding the Harper government’s (not so) new, but very controversial anti-terrorism Bill S-7, and the attacks this bill may have on the civil liberties of Canadians.
Despite the Bill receiving more recent attention, it is important to remember that the measures being introduced are simply ones that are being reinstated, as th .... |
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Are America's elites pushing that country into becoming a crypto-fasicst empire that is inspired by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany just before World War II? Are America's elites seeking to exploit so-called "terrorism" for a power grab that has a totalitarian agenda?
A U.S. government task force is seeking to force companies such as Google, Dropbox and Facebook to create .... |
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The telephone poll, which sampled 1,004 voters, comes just days before voting in the Liberal leadership race is set to begin. Co-operation and electoral reform have been major topics of debate between the two top candidates, Joyce Murray and Justin Trudeau. Seven in 10 Canadians support move to proportional representation.
A new national Environics poll shows that Canadians think our democratic .... |
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