BY PATRICK WEDASAH MADAHBEE OTTAWA CITIZEN According to the widely reported audit report leaked to media this week, the books of the Attawapiskat First Nation are actually in better shape since Theresa Spence became chief a couple of years ago. There was no indication of suspicious activity. Under the terms of
Chiefs mull issuing demand Harper scrap omnibus bills, Indian Act during planned Friday meeting
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Diversity is resiliency
BY DANIEL WILSON rabble.ca Those who want Indigenous people to lose this fight will tell you that we have to have only one leader for the others to talk with, one issue to talk about, and one solution. They are wrong. What began as a teach-in morphed over just a few weeks into a
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper offers modest concession to aboriginal protesters: Editorial
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By Heather Scoffield The Canadian Press FORT HOPE FIRST NATION, Ont. – The people at Cliffs Natural Resources have been around, and know the challenges of mining in difficult conditions. But this is a first: the multinational has had to extend deadlines on its environmental assessment process in northern Ontario’s Ring of
Complaints about Tory calls began 3 days before polls opened
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Plane towing anti-Harper banner grounded by RCMP
This message of “true patriot love” apparently didn’t pass RCMP scrutiny. The Don’t Hold Your Breath Club asks, “Will there be an investigation into this case of political suppression?” ‘Stephen Harper hates us,’ PSAC’s French sign read CBC News An airplane commissioned by one of Canada’s largest national labour unions to fly
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If you doubted that the Harper government was “waging war against the environment”, this article (link and article below), forwarded by CAPE member Angie LeGresley, should be proof that your doubts are misplaced. After a century or more of slowly and painfully assembling even modest protection for the ecosystem services on which our survival depends, the Stephen
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Laws are simply the rules of the game–rules that we make to order our society. An ecocide law, for example, would result in a profound change in how we address our responsibilities to each other and to the earth. It is important in a democracy that people understand what the rules are and accept why
Harper Calls For Answers From Scientists He’s Muzzled
Duplicity is not an endearing trait in a leader. It is highly unlikely that the final decision on the Northern Gateway pipeline will be based on science given that Mr. Harper has cut scientific research and muzzled scientists. by Amy Boughner Care2 Stephen Harper declared that science would make the decision on the
The Economist to Harper: Your bullying ways are giving the NDP a chance
National Post staff CALGARY — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been ridiculed for being a bully in a scathingeditorial by the influential Economist news magazine. The Economist, a mostly right-leaning British weekly, criticized the Harper government for giving the opposition an opening by being inflexible and claimed the Prime Minister was “intolerant of criticism and dissent.” The
Killing Environmental Science
Elizabeth May Green Party of Canada There has been no announcement of the devastating decision to stop studying the natural world, but the evidence is piling up that such a decision has been taken. It is no secret that Stephen Harper is uninterested in science. One of his first decisions was to unburden himself
Applicants respond to Conservative Party motions to dismiss election legal challenges
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AUDIO: Maude Barlow’s keynote speech at ‘Shout Out Against Mining Injustice’
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