Why I Hate Stephen Harper: Agent Orange in Canada
"A Conservative government will stand up for full and fair compensation to persons exposed to defoliant spraying during the period from 1956 to 1984."
- Stephen Harper
Realities Collide at Halifax "War Conference"
Torch Relay Protested in Halifax
No Help for the Poor in NDP-Ruled Nova Scotia
By Bruce Wark - November 14, 2009
Friday November 13th was an unlucky day for poor Nova Scotians. That's the day four economists...released their recommendations outlining the economic path the new NDP government should follow...Unfortunately, the panel's obsessive focus on reducing deficits and debt in order to balance the budget...could give [the] Dexter [NDP government] an excuse not to increase welfare rates significantly.
Nova Scotia First Nation Demands Answers in Fatal Shooting by RCMP
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - CBC News
The chief and council of the Wagmatcook First Nation say the investigation into a fatal shooting by an RCMP officer last year is dragging on far too long...The band is demanding answers about the death of John Andrew Simon, 44, who was shot to death at his home on Dec. 2..."If...the roles had reversed and it had been a police officer that had been shot it wouldn't have been 10 months before a decision was made about whether to lay charges. It wouldn't have been 10 days..."
"Pack Up and Get Out"
Security & Prosperity Partnership Leadership Summit (August 9th and 10th)
By Paul Manly - August 7, 2009
On August 9th and 10th, the leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico will be meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico to discuss progress on the Security & Prosperity Partnership (SPP)...The SPP undermines our democratic rights and the ability of our elected representatives to pass laws and regulations that safeguard the environment, protect workers rights and control the economy in the interest of ordinary citizens. The SPP threatens the sovereignty of all three countries through the deep integration of military, security structures and regulatory regimes.
No Cops in School!
By Hilary Beaumont - June 29, 2009
Since violent events at Cole Harbour District High School and Auburn Drive in May, [the Black Independence Network Nova Scotia] has accused the media of misrepresenting what the group says was unprompted police brutality towards black students. BINNS literature handed out at the protest said riot police arrested 14 black youths at Auburn Drive after a schoolyard argument on May 1.
Justice Served Cold
Nova Scotia Power Report
I wrote this recently to expose how the NWO corporations are stealing our public utilities and calling it privatization...
Rita MacNeil: "I'm No Rabble-Rouser"
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - CBC News
Rita MacNeil was as surprised as anyone to learn she was the target of RCMP undercover agents investigating the women's movement nearly 40 years ago...She represented the Toronto Women's Caucus at a March 1972 meeting of women's groups in Winnipeg, and, as an RCMP memo states, was the "one who composes and sings women's lib songs."
Innu People Threatened with Evictions
Did Rush Slimeball Cross the Line?
I’ve been very quiet about the political circus that prevails here in the good ole USA. Then I heard American talk show host Rush Limbaug’s blatantly racial and gender commentary alluding to the notion a woman or African American could not possibly be presidential material. I found it patently offensive, racist and bigoted. Though I’m no fan of any of the candidates I found Slimeball’s actions during the Democratic Primaries revolting and an affront to the whole democratic process. It’s my right not to like candidates and it’s my right not to vote for them but it’s no ones right to “rig” an election.
[Great Lakes & East Coast] No Olympics on Stolen Land! Speaking Tour
With the 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to occur on unceded Coast Salish, St’at’imc and Squamish territory in two years, the spectacle surrounding them continues to wreak havoc on Indigenous people, poor people, and the Earth. In the spirit of resistance to colonialism, with the 2010 Olympics as a main target, Kanahus Pellkey of the Native Youth Movement and Native youth Dustin Johnson are touring throughout the Great Lakes and East Coast in January and February 2008.
Joya To The World
Malalai Joya, women's rights activist and expelled Afghan parliamentarian spoke in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Thursday. She filled an auditorium and within it, many hearts who were moved by her passion.
