John Lennon Happy Christmas
This song is a small way to say thank you to the folks who have visited here over the past year. I’ve appreciated your comments and ideas and look forward to another year of shared rants, raves and thoughtful analyses.
Without asking the G-G, I’m proroguing this blog for the holidays. Nonetheless, I [...]

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The War Resisters Support Campaign says that U.S. war resister Cliff Cornell has been told by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to leave Canada by Dec. 24, or face removal by force. Another war resister, Kimberly Rivera, will receive a decision on her request to remain in Canada on Jan. 7. War resister Dean Walcott was [...]

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Three more Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan yesterday, bringing the Canadian death toll to 103 soldiers, two aid workers and one diplomat. A week before in Helmand Province, ten civilians including women and children were killed in an ISAF air strike in the Nad-e-Ali district.
The only bright note was today’s shoe-ing of outgoing War Criminal [...]

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When Bob Rae was in Winnipeg yesterday he mused that Harper’s suspension of Parliament, while undemocratic, gave the Coalition a chance to talk with Canadians, listen to Canadians and to “get it right.”
I agree. Nowhere is this more important than on the question of Afghanistan. The Liberals got us into Afghanistan. The Liberals voted with [...]

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If there are divisions in Liberal ranks over the Liberal-NDP Coalition, they were not evident today at a meeting addressed by Bob Rae. The mostly Liberal gathering listened closely and applauded enthusiastically as Rae explained the historic agreement between the Liberals and the NDP to bring Harper down.
After speaking for about 20 minutes, Rae answered [...]

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No, he still hasn’t met them, but it’s not for want of trying by the Majority Agenda Coalition, which on Nov. 15 demonstrated outside of the Conservative Party of Canada Convention in Winnipeg.
The coalition drew eloquent and boisterous attention to the vast range of issues deemed important by Canadians across the country. If you [...]

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Every time we lose another soldier, it feels like I’ve lost my son one more time . . . I really feel we shouldn’t be there to begin with, so if there’s a hundred or two or three its all the same to me – they shouldn’t be there. . . . I don’t see [...]

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Winnipeggers opposed The Rogue, Dec. 4, 2008, at a spirited rally at the Marlborough Hotel. Photo: Boris Minkevich, Winnipeg Free Press
Media reports put attendance at the Winnipeg rally at about 500. I was there; it seemed larger. It was (as were all of the rallies across the country yesterday, I imagine)  part public relations exercise [...]

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The Harper Dictatorship

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The Tory Thug gets to duck and cover for now. Stephen Harper has succeeded in his bid to undermine Parliamentary democracy. He has shown a profound contempt for democracy. Shame!

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