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http://www.policyalternatives.ca/Reports/2008/09/HarperRecord/index.cfm?pa=BB736455

This book is one in a series of CCPA publications that have examined the records of Canadian federal governments during the duration of their tenure. As with earlier CCPA reports on the activities of previous governments while in office, this ( Read more... )

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The Department of Culture -- departmentofcultre.ca

WHO WE ARE

We are the Department of Culture, a growing community of Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation in the face of a Federal Government that is ( Read more... )

Listening to: A dishwasher on my end, a train roaring by on his...

Since coming to power, Stephen Harperʼs Conservative government has:

1. Cut funding to Status of Women groups and required changes to their mandates - removing its important advocacy role
2. Eliminated funding for literacy programs - $17.7m for adult literacy
3. Cancelled the proposed National ( Read more... )

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Here's why self-inspection doesn't work... corporations need to increasre profit margins and cut corners to satisfy shareholders...

Excerpted from "Listeriosis is the least of it"
Early release, published at www.cmaj.ca on Sept. 16, 2008. Subject to revision.

In August Canada experienced the worst epidemic of listeriosis in ( Read more... )

Listening to: le tigre

Reposted from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' newsletter, Sept 2, 2008.

Dwindling access to drinking water on Canadian university campuses: Report

Water fountains are becoming an endangered species on university campuses across Canada. That’s one of the findings of a national on-line survey, Corporate Initiatives on ( Read more... )

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Please take a few minutes to sign a petition urging the Governor General to stand by the decision of awarding Dr. Morgentaler the Order of Canada. This petition is organized as a rebuttal to the over 30,000 signatures collected by anti-choicers...

http://www.gopetition.com/online/20407.html

Listening to: Not much... the dishwasher, computer hum, stuff like that...

Docs condemn unborn crime bill
Christina Spencer,Edmonton Sun, August 21, 2008

MONTREAL -- Canada's largest doctors' group has strongly condemned a private member's bill it fears could limit women's access to abortion and criminalize doctors who assist them.

By a wide ( Read more... )

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I'm reposting the whole thing, but excerpting a part I find particularly interesting... about ambivalence and double standards...

Reposted from Globe and Mail, July 19, 2008

'Why not just talk about it?' by Cate Cochran

In the summer of 1987, when I was 30, I had started a new relationship and we got a bit careless - that old ( Read more... )