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Posted by Joan Russow
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Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:18 |
From: Ruth Ann Darnell, PVEA Coordinator
Dear Ruth Ann, Thank you for speaking out against the Site C dam. British Columbia's plan to turn one of the last protected areas of the Peace River Valley in northeastern BC into a gigantic hydro-electric reservoir is an unacceptable violation of Indigenous peoples human rights.
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Monday, 23 November 2015 12:04 |
Publication: Globe and Mail
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Section: Comment
JOAN RUSSOW
Canada's election debates should not be limited to the establishment parties,
says Green Party Leader JOAN RUSSOW
November 8 2000
You will not see or hear from the Green Party in the French
television debates this evening, or the English debates tomorrow, so
you won't hear about a great many issues that should be fundamental
to this election.
Ideally, an election is an opportunity for all registered political
parties to inform the public about issues. When the Governor-General,
at the request of the Prime Minister, agrees to dissolve Parliament,
the slate is presumably wiped clean. Members of Parliament lose their
seats and all registered parties become equal.
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Thursday, 15 October 2015 04:43 |
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By Jordan Press, The Canadian Press Posted: Oct 14, 2015 4:40 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 14, 2015 8:03 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-liberal-co-chair-advised-transcanada-on-lobbying-1.3271175

Dan Gagnier had been serving as the Liberal Party's national campaign co-chair. (liberal.ca)
Justin Trudeau's national campaign co-chair is stepping down after he sent a detailed email to people behind the Energy East pipeline with advice on how and when to lobby a new government — including a Liberal minority.
Earlier in the day the Liberals stood by Dan Gagnier, saying he did not break any ethical standards. But in a statement later Wednesday, Gagnier said he didn't want to be a distraction to the campaign.
"I deeply regret that the campaign has been affected by these negative, personal attacks," the statement reads.
"I have always conducted my business openly and in full accordance with the rules. In the best interests of the party, I have taken this decision. I continue to support Justin Trudeau and hope for a Liberal government on Oct. 19."
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Thursday, 15 October 2015 04:37 |
By Jordan Press, The Canadian Press Posted: Oct 14, 2015 4:40 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 14, 2015 8:03 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-liberal-co-chair-advised-transcanada-on-lobbying-1.3271175

Dan Gagnier had been serving as the Liberal Party's national campaign co-chair. (liberal.ca)
Justin Trudeau's national campaign co-chair is stepping down after he sent a detailed email to people behind the Energy East pipeline with advice on how and when to lobby a new government — including a Liberal minority.
Earlier in the day the Liberals stood by Dan Gagnier, saying he did not break any ethical standards. But in a statement later Wednesday, Gagnier said he didn't want to be a distraction to the campaign.
"I deeply regret that the campaign has been affected by these negative, personal attacks," the statement reads.
"I have always conducted my business openly and in full accordance with the rules. In the best interests of the party, I have taken this decision. I continue to support Justin Trudeau and hope for a Liberal government on Oct. 19."
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Sunday, 11 October 2015 06:42 |
http://induecourse.ca/open-letter-regarding-conservative-party-campaign-tactics/The following letter has been signed by 587 Canadian academics, condemning the tactics being employed by the Conservative Party of Canada in the current federal election campaign. It will appear in newspapers tomorrow, but there is no room in print to reproduce all of the signatures. So we are making the full list available here:
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Thursday, 08 October 2015 15:48 |
By Alan Danesh
The Conservatives claim to be true custodians of the
economy. Yet as the figures below from Statistics Canada
and International Monetary Fund clearly document,
Canadian economy was being rapidly hollowed out in the
last six years of the Conservative rule.
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Sunday, 04 October 2015 14:50 |
By Joan Russow
Global Compliance Research Project
On September 4, 2015, on the CBC program 'the 180", was the following description of the interview with Duff Conacher from Ottawa advocacy group, Democracy Watch. When I heard his description of what constitutes "honesty in Politics", I assumed that he is advocating the importance of elected representatives' abiding by their principles, policy and platform.
Was this honesty in politics?
When it is difficult to support a political Party is when elected members of the party take positions in opposition to its core values, and policy espoused in its platform . From 1997 to 2000, I was the leader of the Canadian Green Party which was presumed to share, with international Greens, common values, one of which was non-violence and common policy against Trade agreements. Yet in 1999, when the Greens formed part of government in Germany, they supported the bombing of Yugoslavia. At meetings among Canadian, Mexican and US Greens, there was a common policy opposing NAFTA; yet in the 2000 election, the Mexican Greens formed a coalition government with the right wing PRI and supported NAFTA. Now in Canada the Green Party is willing to ignore its platform with its Green MP Bruce Hyer who left the NDP because he was against gun control; the Green Party platform does support gun control. Also he voted in favour of the bombing of Syria, which also would be considered to be inconsistence with a core principle of the Green Party
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Friday, 28 August 2015 09:13 |
Look who's changing the world.
Grist
http://grist.org/people/making-the-connections-on-tar-sands-pollution-racism-and-sexism/
Look who is changing the world

Melina Laboucan-Massimo was born in the wilds of northern Alberta, Canada, in a tiny town aptly named Peace River. She grew up in Little Buffalo, an even tinier town about 65 miles to the east, where most of her family still lives. A member of the Lubicon Cree, one of Canada’s First Nations, she was raised on the land like her parents and grandparents: hunting moose and drying the meat, using local plants as medicines, spending summers deep in the boreal forests and muskeg swamps and winters in a village with no running water.
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015 13:12 |
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/military-spending-might-be-ndps-secret-weapon/article26076974/comments/?ord=1
Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, should we go by oversimplified stereotypes, are the party that never saw a war it didn’t like. The New Democrats by contrast have a long-lasting pacifist image. They were the types back in time with the well-meaning salutes. Two digits in the air, a disarmingly dorky look and sotto voce, “Peace brother.” Probably made your day.
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Saturday, 08 August 2015 18:37 |
Harper's personality and policies have angered and alienated a broad swathe of Canadians
Harper's personality and policies have angered and alienated a broad swathe of Canadians
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stephen-harper-canadian-prime-minister-accused-of-taking-country-too-far-to-the-right-10447023.html
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Secretive, vindictive and patronising are not words
in keeping with the popular stereotype of Canadians.
Yet that’s how citizens of the world’s
second-largest country are increasingly portraying
the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, these days.
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