Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and His Chief of Staff John Harris Arrested on Federal Corruption Charges

CHICAGO, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges alleging that they and others are engaging in ongoing criminal activity: conspiring to obtain personal financial benefits for Blagojevich by leveraging his sole authority to appoint a United [...]

Welcome to the Church of Canada

Image via WikipediaFor a time it appeared the Harper government was pandering to the mushy middle of the Canadian voting public. Those who receive their political knowledge from 30 second sound bites and catchy slogans. In fact this pandering was even starting to alienate some of the social conservative voters who began to see Harper [...]

20 Years of Choice

The Supreme Court ruled (in part) that,
State interference with bodily integrity and serious state-imposed psychological stress, at least in the criminal law context, constitutes a breach of security of the person. Section 251 clearly interferes with a woman’s physical and bodily integrity. Forcing a woman, by threat of criminal sanction, to carry a [...]

Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

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What a fine sounding title. Who doesn’t want security and prosperity? What a wonderful and ambitious goal! Unfortunately like so many other programs current governments offer, the title belies the intent.
From Integrate This;
In March 2005, Paul Martin, George W. Bush and Vicente Fox met in Waco, Texas to ratify the Security and Prosperity [...]

You can’t handle the truth

That is the message that the Washington Post has for it’s readers.
The images are contained in thousands of pages of NCIS investigative documents obtained by The Washington Post. Post editors decided that most of the images are too graphic to publish…
The descriptions of some of the photos do indeed sound brutal. A brutality the [...]

United We Stand

We started October, Women’s History month, on a low note with the cuts to SWC.
Not only cuts but a complete change of mandate including taking out the term and very idea of equality.
On Halloween, a day known for goblins and witches, Norm Spector shows again the lack of commitment of the conservative right to [...]

(Un)Holy Alliance: Creationism in Turkey

By fern hill
CBC Radio’s Overnight program is terrific. It takes news and features from public radio stations around the world: English-language services from BBC, Radio Sweden, Radio Africa, Australian Broadcasting Corp, and Deutsche Welle, among others.
The other night I caught part of a program from Deutsche Welle’s ‘Dialogue’ on creationism in Turkey, by Dorian [...]

Stephen Harper And Native Rights

Stephen Harper Plays The Race Card
by Luke
Most people would agree that a letter to the editor of a newspaper is not the proper way for a Prime Minister to announce major policy shifts. Furthermore, it is questionable behaviour not to accept the law as defined by Canadian courts. Stephen Harper did both in a letter [...]

The Sentimental Value of Motherhood

I was recently watching a comedy show where the comedian started talking about how Hollywood treats the Irish. He said you only need to look at the movie the Titanic to see that the Irish are expendable but of great sentimental value.
I thought that a very apt description of mothers, mothering and motherhood especially under [...]

Thinking the unthinkable about Canada’s future

by Geoff Olson
In the eye-opening film Hoodwinked: The Myth of Free Trade, former Liberal prime minister John Turner reflects on the mid-’80s battle over the North American Free Trade Agreement. After a famous heated exchange with Brian Mulroney, Turner lost the battle for Canadian hearts and minds on the divisive trade issue — and their [...]

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