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🍁 CDN: Harper Steps Down After Conservative Defeat

Stephen Harper was upbeat in the face of a one-sided election defeat, but will step down as Conservative leader following the result.

Conservative Party president John Walsh released a short statement shortly before Harper took the stage in Calgary, indicating Harper had instructed him to reach out to the elected caucus to appoint an interim leader and begin the next leadership selection process. The party is [continue reading].

Canada: Will Our Election Decide Fate Of The World?

If voters oust Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, they’ll be voting for a whole new climate policy — and potentially tipping the scales of December’s Paris summit on global warming. For years, Canada and Australia have been the climate villains [continue reading].

Canada: Harper Associated With War Crimes Not Peacekeeping

The biggest threat to Canada’s national security is internal. It is the offshoot of an extraordinarily successful — because it remains largely undetected — coup that imposed itself on the country with the federal election of the Conservative Party of Canada [continue reading].

🍁 CDN: Harper Is Complicit In The Refugee Crisis

A woman falls into the water with her child

Having fought (in) the wars that created these crises – Canada has systematically closed every possible avenue of access for refugees. This article is published in snippets. Bombing Islamic State for a year will cost Canada half a billion dollars. Canada previously spent [continue reading].

Letter To Editor: Justin Made Me A Proud Canadian Again

British Columbia, Canada: Yesterday I attended the political speech of Justin Trudeau at the Esquimalt constituent office of the Liberal candidate David Werner. It was a sunny day, a lot of people showed up to hear Mr. Trudeau speak, so many in fact, both sides of Esquimalt [continue reading].

Canada: Harper Has Worst Economic Record Since WWII

It turns out the emperor has no clothes after all. Although Conservatives like to drone on like robots about how Stephen Harper is a “steady hand on the wheel” of the economy, that myth is increasingly hard to square with reality. Not only does a recent poll suggest [continue reading].

🍁 CDN: Bill C-51 Court Rules That Policy Discriminates

The federal government’s refugee policy is discriminatory and violates the Charter rights of refugee applicants from certain countries, a federal court ruled Thursday. Denying certain refugee applicants the right to appeal based on their country of origin violates Charter [continue reading].