I saw this at Unrepentant Old Hippie, as well as elsewhere, and wanted to repost the response that the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC has been sending out to those of you who emailed into them complaining of their promoting a link with Wendy Sullivan, aka “RightGirl” who Dave at the Galloping Beaver first [...]

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Well, despite the blockades in some areas, yesterday’s Native Day Of Action went without any major conflicts. I would say this is to the various police forces credit - they decided not to take a confrontational approach, so we had no Oka-type scenarios anywhere. That attitude was in contrast to some of our right-wing [...]

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This skit is from a few weeks ago on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, but I still get a chuckle out of this.
Scary thing though, it isn’t too far from the truth.

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The Young Liberals have launched another little initiative this Canada Day holiday weekend, with the unveiling of the new website Take Back Canada, as well as setting up some stations across Canada to promote the website and their new campaign. You can get more information at the site, and you can join their Facebook [...]

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Well, as I (unfortunately) predicted, the First Nation’s National Day of Protest has brought the frothing rabid, hate-spewing right-wingers out of the woodwork. I hope all the news organizations out there who have used some of these folks before as “credible” people for commentary would either think twice about using them, or confront them [...]

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Well, it seems that is isn’t just a couple of bloggers noticing the surprising prevalence of blue at this year’s Canada Day celebrations; some in the media are starting to notice it as well.
Its hinted at in the media piece that military symbols are going to be highly noticeable at this event - which isn’t [...]

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The Pew Project released a poll that measured public attitudes in 47 countries on a variety of topics. The one that caught my eye was the attitude toward the Afghanistan mission. According to the Pew poll, majorities in 7 of the 12 NATO countries want troops out of Afghanistan “as soon as possible”. In [...]

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In a ruling today in a split 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court struck down voluntary integration plans in a couple of public schools. At the same time, they tried insisting they weren’t going against the spirit of Brown v. Board of Education, which barred public school districts from assigning students on the [...]

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I’m not particularly surprised at this, nor will I be surprised to see the howls of outrage from certain segments of the right-wing blogging community because of it. I’m not referring to mere grumbling about it; what I mean is I will expect to see calls for the military to be called in [...]

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Contrary to what some might think, I actually like Andrew Coyne as a writer/op-ed/journalist. He’s the only reason anyone should bother looking through the National Post in my opinion. He’s also not as “conservative” in some viewpoints as you might think. For instance, he supports MMP electoral reform, and he also holds constitutional and federalist [...]

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