Category Archives: Government
TPP will cause unnecessary suffering by making medicines unaffordable, MSF warns
The recently released text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership confirms that the deal contains dangerous provisions that would dismantle public health safeguards enshrined in international law and restrict access to price-lowering generic medicines for millions of people leading to unnecessary suffering
Calgary Imam likens Harper to Idi Amin
An Imam in Calgary likened the outgoing Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Uganda’s former brutal dictator Idi Amin yesterday, drawing fire from Canadians across the political spectrum. “Stephen Harper’s legacy as Prime Minister of Canada. ” Prof. Imam Syed B.
Ads, #BarbaricCulturalPractices and Ford: Harper campaign hurt by self-inflicted wounds, poll finds
The Conservatives’ own ads, Stephen Harper’s appearance with Rob Ford and the pledge to introduce a “Barbaric Cultural Practices” tip line all did more to drive voters away than to attract them to the Tories, according to a new poll.
Canada electing Trudeau caused the whale-watching tragedy, US evangelist claims
God caused the sinking of the a whale-watching vessel killing five Britons and an Australian off the coast of Tofino, BC, because Canada elected Justin Trudeau as the nation’s new Prime Minister, a popular US evangelist claims. “It’s a sign
Support for Bill C-51 hits all time low
The support for outgoing Conservative government’s controversial anti-terror legislation has fallen to an all time low, a new poll suggests. Only 16 per cent of Canadians want the incoming Liberal government to keep Bill C-51 as it is, while 26
‘Barrick Gold’ Baird rules out Tory leadership run
John Baird, who resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs to take a job as an advisor with a corporation that received subsidies for its mining operations from the Harper government during the time he was in the Cabinet, has ruled
Opinion: How Canada found an antidote to Lynton Crosby’s venom
By Lisa Chang Lynton Crosby’s wedge strategies and dog whistle politics helped unpopular conservative prime ministers in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to retain power. But the ‘Lizard of Oz’ failed so miserably in Canada, that his partner
TPP: Cancer for Canadians and closed doors for Canadian dairy exports, whistleblower scientist warns
Allowing milk from hormone-treated cows in the United States into Canada under the Trans-Pacific Partnership will increase the cancer risk for Canadians while making it more difficult for the nation’s dairy farmers to export Canadian milk overseas, according to a
Back to the Future: Canadians wish to restore values of civility, kindness, and inclusion in voting Liberals, survey finds
Canadians have gone “back to the future” and made a deliberate decision to restore the values they view as traditionally defining Canada and Canadian society, including civility, kindness and inclusion in voting for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, according to
Defeated Harper supporters call for independent “Republic of Western Canada”
Supporters of defeated Prime Minister Stephen Harper are calling for an independent “Republic of Western Canada” covering Canada’s western provinces after the Liberal Party swept to power in the general election on Monday. Harper’s Conservatives, who only managed 99 seats