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Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:53:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Jan. 05 - My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve—dangerously naïve. I'm aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then c

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Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot At Berkeley: If They'll Beat A Poet Laureate, Will They Kill A Student?

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jesse Kornbluth - Nov. 14 - The year was 1967. Body bags were coming back from Vietnam at the rate of 1,000 or more a month. I had skipped my freshman...

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Home Decor Flash Sales Site HomeSav.com Raises $1.2 Million

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Robin Wauters - Sep. 27 (Opinion) - Luxury home decor flash sale site HomeSav.com this morning announced that it has raised $1.2 million in seed financing from multiple retail angel investors and entrepreneurs including the Koffler family and the Metrick family (founders and owners of Canada's largest high-end home furniture retailer). In addition, HomeSav.com says it has grown its membership by over 1,400 percent in the first year to over 100,000 registered users in the United States and Canada. Its members are said to place over 100 orders per day.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper to attend Game 4 of Stanley Cup final

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

yahoo.com - By Bruce Cheadle - Jun. 09 (Editorial) - Opposition MPs were incensed that Harper — who used to rail about government abuse of its executive jets — is flying to Boston on the taxpayers' dime for a hockey game even as his government is on a mission to slash some $4 billion per year in "fat" from federal programs and services.

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The Immortal Terrorist

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Jonathan Kay - May. 02 (Opinion) - In my research into radical ideological movements, I’ve found that this sort of reaction is common. The psychological trigger is the death of a leader who is cast as the embodiment of some larger-than-life cause. It doesn’t matter whether the cause is good or evil—the psychological phenomenon is amoral.

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Does Living Near Wind Turbines Cause Health Problems?

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post - Feb. 23 - A group of residents living near wind farms in Canada have joined together to form an anti-wind power movement. According to CNN, the group is...

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What Makes Somalis So Different?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Dec. 22 () - You’d expect their children would be — on the whole — relieved to live in a stable Western country where even the president is black. But the Somalis who settled in Minneapolis and other selected corners of the U.S. were war refugees, with little money and not many job skills. A recent U.S. census study said Somali immigrants, statistically, were among the “youngest and poorest” newcomers to the U.S., with 82 percent of the community in Minneapolis living below the poverty line.

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To all our veterans past and present, "Thank You" (tribute video)

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

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Immigration Reform

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

istockAnalyst.com (press release) - By Fred Wilson - Jul. 20 (Opinion) - I was thrilled to hear Senator Schumer's optimism last night that we will get "comprehensive immigration reform" in 2011, after the midterm elections.

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Bank Tax, We Hardly Knew Ye

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - Michael Scott Moore was a 2006-2007 Fulbright fellow for journalism in Germany, and his first novel, Too Much of Nothing, was published by Ca... Why euro-bashers could turn against the dollar, and how they might be stopped. How did such an

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Indigenous Groups Lead Struggle Against Canada's Tar Sands

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Mike Burke, Clayton Thomas-Muller - Jun. 25 (Interview) - A group of lawmakers are calling on the Obama administration to take a closer look at the significant environmental impacts of a proposed massive pipeline that would carry Canadian tar sands oil 2,000 miles from northern Alberta all the way down to refineries in Texas and tankers off the Gulf Coast. Tar sands mining emits three times more greenhouse gas pollution than traditional oil and has come under heavy criticism from environmental and indigenous groups. Democracy Now!'s Mike Burke speaks to Clayton Thomas-Müller, a Canadian indigenous activist with the Indigenous Environmental Network.

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Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:59:11 -0800

Huffington Post - Mar. 08 - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system. The irony,

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Change at the Top of the World

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Link TV - By Charles Annenberg Weingarten - Dec. 08 (Advocacy) - Steeped in history and tradition, the arctic is a cold, vast and astonishing expanse of land and sea at the top of the planet. Join philanthropist and filmmaker Charles Annenberg Weingarten and Iqaluit Mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik as they meet the region's people, learn about Inuit culture and explore how their fragile ecosystem and time-honored way of life are faring in the face of global warming.

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Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthDig - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 11 (Opinion) - It’s lack of adequate health care. So maybe the president’s solution isn’t Jack Bauer, but rather the actor who plays him. The star of “24” is played by Kiefer Sutherland, whose family has very deep connections to health care reform—in Canada. Sutherland is the grandson of the late Tommy Douglas, the pioneering Canadian politician who is credited with creating the modern Canadian health care system.

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Action at State Department on Tar Sands - World's Dirtiest Oil

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Jun. 26 (Press Release) - The Canadian Tar Sands are located a day’s drive from Glacier National Park and are one of the most destructive projects on Earth. Already visible from space, the Tar Sands, - a lunar landscape of 'sacrifice zone' -are scheduled to grow to the size of Michigan. Tar Sands oil production generates 3-5 times the greenhouse gas emissions of conventional oil. Production of Tar Sands oil destroys fresh drinking water, pollutes the air, and razes some of the world’s last remaining endangered forests. Dirty Tar Sands oil cannot be made clean by technological solutions.

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Canadian Judge Upholds Government Decision to Bar British MP George Galloway on National Security Grounds

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By George Galloway, Amy Goodman - Apr. 01 (Opinion) - Canadian officials say they banned Galloway on national security grounds, saying he provided financial support to Hamas, the Palestinian political party which was elected in January 2006 and controls the Gaza Strip

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We are heading for a global environmental credit crunch

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Straight.com - By Charlotte Argue - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Although this credit crunch may pose a legitimate threat to many livelihoods and pensions, there is another crunch we have much greater reason to fear. We are in the midst of a credit crunch that threatens not only the economy of every country, but also the fate of thousands, if not millions of species, including our own. Our actions, largely driven by the capitalist market, are depleting Earth's resource bank at unprecedented rates, causing a shrinking supply of Earth's resource capital: a global environmental credit crunch.

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Show trial

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

David Warren On Line - By David Warren - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - A group of Islamist fanatics, claiming to speak for every Muslim in Canada, charged Maclean's magazine with "spreading hatred against Muslims" for having printed a lucid and reasonable (if controversial) excerpt from Steyn's bestselling book, America Alone. This is a news story that should be on the front page of every newspaper in Canada, every day until it is resolved. Everything about this case stinks to high heaven. It was brought before three different "human rights" tribunals simultaneously. The British Columbian venue was openly "jurisdiction shopped" because the province's human rights tribunals have an especially egregious record for ignoring respondents' most basic charter rights. The charges were brought more than a year after the article appeared. There was an open attempt at extortion, when representatives of the complainant called a press conference in which an offer was made to retract the charges for unspecified considerations. And so on: a layering of affronts to the most elementary standards of justice and decency.

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Wikinews interviews team behind the 2,000th featured Wikipedia article

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wikinews - By Brian McNeil, Jon Beasley-Murray, UBC students - Apr. 13 (Interview) - Wikinews contacted Professor Jon Beasley-Murray, who agreed to be interviewed for this story. His responses can be found below. Included are sections soliciting responses from three students who took the class and helped create and bring El Señor Presidente to Feature Article status. Thus far the project has created seven good articles in addition to the 2,000th featured article.

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Did Clinton Win Ohio on a Lie?

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Paul Loeb - Mar. 06 (Opinion) - Suppose someone in the North Korean government released a false story that shifted a key American election. If Bush were negatively affected, we might be bombing Pyongyang by now. But this just happened with what Hillary Clinton called "NAFTAgate" Without it, she might never have won Ohio, or her margin would have been minuscule. But as a Canadian Broadcasting Company story reveals, practically the entire story was a lie, one that played so central a role in Clinton's Ohio victory as to thoroughly taint any claim she raises about a swing state mandate.

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The war on energy security

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:48:23 -0800

American Thinker - By Thomas Lifson - Dec. 10 (Opinion) - Alberta's tar sands are already known to contain the world's second largest proven reserves of petroleum. The only problem is that extracting the oil requires energy and water, and the tar sands (also called "oil sands") must excavated (or "mined" if you prefer that term) and heated, to separate the petroleum from the sand and rock. Fortunately, the tar sands are located in the north of Alberta, a territory which otherwise has little appeal for human settlement, and which is accordingly very sparsely populated.

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American Peace Activists Denied Entry to Canada After Appearing on FBI Database

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:31:56 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Ann Wright - Oct. 05 (Interview) - The two women were apparently denied entry into Canada because their names appeared on an FBI-run international criminal database. Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin do have nine convictions between them, but all involving civil disobedience committed while protesting the war in Iraq.

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Canadian Politics: Military Denies Access To Information About Afghan Detainees

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:11:23 -0700

Blogcritics Magazine - By Richard Marcus - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - Well the Canadian armed forces have finally cottoned on to a trick the American Army has been utilizing since the beginning of their invasion of Iraq. The best way to make sure that everybody believes what you tell them is to suppress any evidence that contradicts your version of events. Last spring there was a great stink raised about what was happening to Afghani people detained by Canadian soldiers. It turned out that our soldiers were being asked to turn over all detainees to the Afghan security forces even though they knew full well that the majority of those turned over would not be treated according to conventions regarding the treatment of combatants captured during a war time situation.

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