Thousands of gun-toting troops will not help the Haitian people. The Canada Haiti Action Network has launched a petition campaign to change the “relief” effort in Haiti from military to humanitarian. You can sign the petition here. Pass it on!

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Veteran peace and social justice activist Nick Ternette is in hospital in Winnipeg. As his wife, Emily, explained in a recent email: “Nick recently developed pain in his right thigh, and on Friday night the pain became unbearable for him. After going to Urgent Care and then on to the Grace Hospital, followed by numerous [...]

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The spam that usually greets me with my morning coffee was enriched by a message from folks calling themselves Republicans for Ignatieff. The National Enquirer style, screaming ALL CAPS subject line REPUBLICANS FOR IGNATIEFF PRAISES MICHAEL IGNATIEFF FOR DEFENDING GEORGE W. BUSH IN RECENTLY-DISCOVERED AUDIO CLIP had me chuckling even before I opened the email. [...]

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Because of the best efforts of the Canadian government to silence free speech, George Galloway spoke to Canadians in 20 cities last night. Had they let him come into the country without incident, he’d have been heard in four. (Thank you Jason Kenney.) Watch the speech he didn’t want you to hear at rabble.tv.

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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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According to this morning’s Winnipeg Free Press Readers’ Poll, 67 per cent disagree with the Prime Minister’s assertion that Canada’s Opposition coalition is a “threat to democracy.” While this is not a scientific, randomized poll and could be manipulated by trolls across the land, it’s kinda reassuring. We Winnipeggers know our threats to democracy, Mr. [...]

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Stephen Harper is amazing. Even when there is irrefutable evidence to the contrary, he is willing to lie on national TV about his unwillingness to share power with the Bloc Quebecois. This is what Harper said last night in his broadcast to the nation: Let me be very clear: Canada’s government cannot enter into a [...]

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