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Sep 22, 2018  What is the relationship between tornadoes and climate change?Brent Patterson On Friday evening, a tornado hit the Ottawa-Gatineau area with winds of up to 200 kilometres per hour. Can we expect tornadoes to increase with climate change? |
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Feb 19, 2018  Jagmeet Singh's populist rhetoric inspires the NDP convention. What next?Karl Nerenberg The NDP leader gave a speech that promised to make the wealthiest pay their share and address inequality. It was, however, short on details, and barely mentioned the environment. |
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Mar 6, 2017  With Rachel Notley off to Texas, it helps to understand why Canadians and Texans are naturally simpaticoDavid J. Climenhaga I expect the small NDP group will be made to feel right at home today by the nabobs of the petroleum industry in Houston, and will feel naturally at home tomorrow in Austin. |
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Feb 24, 2017  Ottawa prepares to hand over historic federal farmland to corporate developersKen Billings The Central Experimental Farm (CEF) in Ottawa is a 1055-acre open-space jewel in a modern metropolis. The government is trying to parcel it out to developers. |
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Oct 27, 2016  Thousands of Canadians raise their voices against TPPBrent Patterson Council of Canadians delivered a petition to Parliament Hill that was signed by 20,000 to voice concern against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. |
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Oct 13, 2016  Ottawa town hall says Energy East risks waterwaysBrent Patterson Ottawa residents discussed a new 30-page report, which found that a spill from the Energy East Pipeline would have catastrophic consequences. |
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Oct 13, 2016  Harvesting freedom and sowing resistance: Migrant workers in Canada demand permanent immigration statusBinish Ahmed Navjeet Sidhu A historic caravan of migrant agricultural workers undertook a 1,500-kilometre journey to Ottawa to rally for permanent immigration status. |
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Sep 6, 2016  Ottawa should take the recent protests by Ethiopian Canadians seriouslyYves Engler Where does Trudeau stand on Ethiopian repression? He can start by reversing his government's near total silence about recent repression in the African country. |
 Help pay for the funeral expenses of Abdirahman Abdi3 Minute Action Let's support the family as we demand justice. |
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Jun 29, 2016  Condominium development threatens protection of Algonquin sacred siteMatt Cicero "You don't develop an Algonquin sacred place," says Algonquin scholar and activist Lynn Gehl. So why is a proposed condo development continuing to be planned? |
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Jun 17, 2016  'Collaborative consent' or Indigenous rights: Condo development on Ottawa sacred siteGreg Macdougall Today is the "It Is Sacred" walk in honour of the at-rish sacred site that is slated for condo development. Greg Macdougall questions how this development is "an exercise in reconciliation." |
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Mar 9, 2016  Canadian politicians love the Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- except when it involves IsraelGerry Caplan Canadian politicians usually embrace the rights established in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But there are limits, and most of them unaccountably seem to have to do with Israel. |
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Nov 27, 2015  Without meditating on capitalism, 'Yoga-gate' will tie you in knotsKrisna Saravanamuttu Without a doubt, the yoga practised in the western mainstream is shallow. At the same time, the defence of a pure yoga ignores regional difference and nuance. |
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Oct 28, 2015  Home at Sea: Sentimental stories of an ocean in crisisWrite Along Radio Listen to this special storytelling episode that takes you on a trip to the ocean. You'll encounter crowded beaches, stormy waves, moments of quiet and mysterious creatures. |
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Jun 22, 2015  Cleaning staff have kicked off a campaign to stand up for their rightsrabble staff Invisible No More is the latest campaign from SEIU fighting for rights for cleaning staff. They are asking for $15 an hour and some basic labour standard guarantees. |
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Jun 19, 2015  Justice for Janitors campaigns to make cleaning staff invisible no moreElla Bedard Invisible No More is the latest campaign from SEIU fighting for rights for cleaning staff. They are asking for $15 an hour and some basic labour standard guarantees. |
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Apr 8, 2015  We would do better to memorialize the victims of capitalism, not communismGerry Caplan Communism's calamitous record should not be forgotten, but there are far more pressing causes that deserve to be remembered by Canadians. |
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Apr 1, 2015  # 232 -- Marc Jade 'live' in OttawaLiving On Purpose Marc Jade, clairvoyant and medium, is based in Ottawa and is living proof of how trust in purpose can save and shape a life for the benefit of all. |
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Feb 5, 2015  A poverty reduction plan for CanadaFrancella Fiallos Citizens for Public Justice and Canada Without Poverty released a national plan on the eradication of poverty in Canada this past week, calling for more action by the federal government. |
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Jan 19, 2015  Gatineau Park is a matter of national concernJean-Paul Murray If Gatineau Park is the "essential feature of any plan for developing the nation's capital" then why is the government and NCC allowing its continued destruction? |
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Dec 5, 2014  This is your brain on conservatism: this week's blog roundupJessica Prupas Highlights from the blogs this week. |
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Dec 1, 2014  An unfortunate week at Parliament HillGeoffrey Stevens Peter Goldring protects himself from female cooties, NDP MP goes to hotel room, Harper government hopes veterans won't notice budget is for 50 years. |
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Oct 22, 2014  Reject the politics of division, re-inject the love and social solidarityNora Loreto Nora Loreto writes a passionate blog about the Ottawa Shooting events that happened Wednesday October 22. |
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Oct 22, 2014  Watching the dust settle in love and solidarity with one anotherNora Loreto With downtown Ottawa slowly emerging from lockdown and thousands of people who work in the core reeling, we are far from the dust settling on what has just happened. |
