from Al Jazeera
Prime Minister Medvedev says Syrian president's chances of keeping power are getting "smaller and smaller" as war rages…
Jan 282013
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Jan 282013
Occupy Toronto to broadcast demonstration on Parliament Hill.
from Occupy Toronto
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Jan 252013
Council of Canadians organizes new coalition to take on the Harper agenda.
from the Council of Canadians
On January 28, when Parliament resumes, the Harper agenda will face an unprecedented assembly of social movements uniting in Common Causes. The new people’s network is working with progressive partners, including Idle No More, to achieve a common goal: to unite people and communities to provide alternatives to the current Conservative government’s agenda. The launch of Common Causes will take place following a weekend convergence in Ottawa of groups planning a Canada, Quebec, Indigenous Peoples’ Social Forum.
Who:
Common Causes is a new assembly of social movements dedicated to defending democracy, the environment, and human rights.
What: There will be a series of actions and events from coast to coast to launch Common Causes.
When:
Monday, January 28
Where: Ottawa, Nanaimo, Sechelt/Sunshine Coast, Vancouver, Kelowna, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Toronto, Guelph, London, Windsor, Montreal, Halifax, Charlottetown, and Saint John.
Why:
The movements uniting in Common Causes believe that coordinated action is needed to take a strong stand against the Harper conservative agenda that is changing society in a broad range of critical areas such as the economy, the environment, Indigenous rights, labour rights, health care, food safety, education, social programs, culture, civil liberties, peace, and poverty.
Jan 242013
from Haaretz
Netanyahu and Lapid complement each other, if the two of them can get the better of themselves, conquer their evil inclinations and build mutual trust, they could be a pretty good leadership team….
Jan 232013
Local outcry, resistance over radiation in water has caused unrest.
by Adam Elliott-Cooper
France opened 2013 with a series of airstrikes on Northern Mali to prevent “the establishment of a terrorist state”. At the time of writing, 11 civilians (including two children) have been killed, and according to the UN, an estimated 30,000 have been displaced.
Jan 232013
from Democracy Now
To mark the third anniversary of the massive 2010 Haiti earthquake, we continue our conversation with Jonathan Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. He was the only full-time American reporter in Haiti when the earthquake struck Port-au-Prince. In his new book, he examines explains where the massive international relief effort in Haiti went wrong.
Jan 232013
from The Toronto Star
Beltzner. Renzella. Beecher.
Those are the three former ORNGE officials who approved the payments that funded Dr Chris Mazza’s lavish lifestyle….
Jan 222013
With no market for hate and right-wing drivel, Sun News comes cap in hand for public subsidy
by David Climenhaga
Sun News Network, that fearless foe of state subsidies for the CBC, wants you, Dear Television Viewer, to directly subsidize it to the tune of $18 million a year.
Have no doubt, that’s just the beginning, but it would nicely cover losses the company says now amount to a modest $17 million a year – hardly a corporate killer, one would think, but apparently enough to get Sun News queuing up at the public trough.
It turns out, as others have discovered before them (Ted Byfield, c’mon down!) that there’s not much of a market in Canada for the kind of market fundamentalist pap Sun News peddles – at least when consumers have the choice not to pay for it.
There’s even less of a market, by the sound of it, for the filthy language and outright hate-mongering indulged in by some of the network’s so-called commentators.
Given the opportunity to choose to watch Sun TV, viewers run away in droves. And who can blame them with boring drivel like Ezra Levant’s regular venomous rants about the Roma, Idle No More protesters, Hispanic business executives, environmentalists and anyone else who provokes his ill-managed anger to fill the seemingly interminable 24-hour broadcast day?
Now the so-called news channel, which disseminates anything but news, has gone with its grubby cap in hand to one of Mr. Levant’s targets, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, to beg for the right to inject its poison directly into almost every Canadian home because it desperately needs the wholesale revenue that would then automatically flow back into its coffers….
Jan 222013
from The Independent
Her lawyers argued she is suffering from mental health problems and that she had been used as a mule by traffickers…
Jan 222013
from Al Jazeera
Pioneer company plans to sell or restructure all or almost all of US assets in the next three to four months…