Letter to Guelph Mercury April 27 2012 Although I’m from British Columbia, I was drawn to the Mercury’s April 21 story “City of Guelph denies Guelph councillors access to environmental report.” Read more ...
Letter from Bishop Dennis P Drainville Apr 26 2012Dear Friends:Excuse me. May I take a moment of your time to point out something which on the one hand is obvious but on the other hand makes the blood run cold? Do you realize that we have become a totalitarian state? I am not sure precisely when it h...
By Stuart Trew Council of Canadians April 27 2012 Global News called it a a “political war,” Postmedia a “marketing blitz.” Whatever you want to call it, today’s CETA day of action from the government was strange, a little overwhelming, but ultimately uplifting. I think we’re doing something right an...
By Brent Patterson Council of Canadians April 13 2012The Canadian Press reports, “Mayors in Atlantic Canada say they want to participate in ongoing free trade negotiations between the federal government and the European Union. The mayors, who are holding their regular meeting in Halifax, say municip...
By Elizabeth Thompson ipolitics March 5 2012Number 1 is The Standing committee Procedure and House affairs which has spent a record 62.7 percent of its time in camera, followed by the Standing Committee of Public Accounts at 50 percent and the Standing Committee for the Status of Women at 42 percent....
By Stuart Trew Council of Canadians April 3 2012Add Peterborough, Niagara Falls and Oakville (all in Ontario) to the list of cities to pass motions calling for more input into ongoing Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations.Read more...
By Kady O’Malley CBC News March 14, 2012 Liberal MP Scott Andrews has served notice on the Chamber — and specifically, the government — that his party intends to “lift the veil of secrecy” that has recently permeated the precinct by holding post-meeting scrums after clo...
The real scandal on Parliament HillExerpt from Ottawa Citizen March 1 2012...a greater danger to the functioning of our democracy was laid out at a committee meeting this week by Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, far from the bright lights. He reported that MPs are “starved of information” nec...
Council of Canadians blog February 16 2012Toronto’s executive committee has voted to endorse the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) seven principles for the Federal Government to apply to the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and future trade deals...
China has pledged $2 billion to build Northern Gateway pipeline By David McLaren It was a text-book case of misdirection.Like snake-oil salesmen of old warming up their marks with a shell game, Prime Minister Harper and Joe Oliver accused radical environmental groups of using “foreign money” to “hija...
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