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Andrés Fontecilla elected Québec Solidaire co-spokesperson | Unionist said... And he got 24% of the vote last year in Laurier, no? Exciting! in

Liberal Party of Canada | NorthReport said... There is a reason the Liberals are now only a third place party. Political sleaze and their "...

Conservatives exploit Boston bombing to fast track 'anti-terror' legislation | janfromthebruce said... cross post from Trudeau thread: The Combating Terrorism Act vs Justin Trudeau Dear Libs : and...

No Place for Bullying in Canadian Politics | BoredToTheCore said... Okay, new old user here. Haven't been around in a while so forget what my login stuff even was....

2013 UBC Prediction Market for BC election | theleftyinvestor said... The discrepancy of Conservative popular vote shares has been noted now on this forum as well as by...

NDP Socialist Caucus Presents Spring 2013 Edition of Turn Left/Virez a gauche | kropotkin1951 said... Nice painting of Queneesh in the K'ómoks First Nation's territory. Whose art work is that? in

NDP 2015 Candidates | Unionist said... Lana Payne. in

Backbench conservatives mutiny against Harper | mark_alfred said... Seems to be some trouble brewing for Mr. Harper. Apparently he's having a hard time...

NDP Montreal Convention 2013 | Brachina said... I can't afford to go myself, but hopefully they live stream the interesting parts. in

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Harper faces protest in New York City over Canada's dismal climate policies and Keystone XL | May 17 2013 | rabble staff | The Big Apple proved to be an unfriendly landing spot today for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose sales job for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was interrupted climate activists.

Peter Worthington and the blurry divisions between left and right | May 17 2013 | Rick Salutin | I'll miss Peter Worthington, Canada's archetypal right-wing journalist, who died this week at 86. I say that without irony or subtext. I'll just miss him.

Elijah Harper remembered: 'He will have a place in Canadian history forever' | May 17 2013 | rabble staff | Elijah Harper has died at the age of 64. Elijah Harper served as both an MP and MLA for Manitoba, and was an honorary chief for life of the Red Sucker Lake First Nation.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory: Lessons from B.C. for NDPers everywhere | May 16 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | Pretty obviously, thanks to Tuesday's B.C. election and the vote last year in Alberta, we have reached a moment of reckoning for Canada's pollsters.

Review: Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest -- Temporary foreign workers in Canada | May 16 2013 | Daniel Tseghay | Over the past decade, the Canadian economy has become increasingly dependent upon exploited temporary foreign workers, in large part through the Canadian government’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Prog

L'affaire Duffy: Will Harper be held to account? | May 16 2013 | Karl Nerenberg | The whole affair, which has crept right up to the Prime Minister's door, is starting to look like a frantic and improvised cover-up operation.

Design for Democracy: Parks over planes, planes over people | May 16 2013 | Elizabeth Littlejohn | Why is Porter, or any airline, allowed to expand its operations over treasured public assets -- our parks and lakes -- when it is duplicating international flights already provided by Pearson Airport?

BC Liberals pull off stunning election win, Greens pick up first ever seat | May 15 2013 | rabble staff | The BC Liberals pulled off a stunning upset Tuesday, defeating the BC NDP to win a majority in the provincial election.

Democracy, Alberta-style: Voters can have any policy they want, as long as it's Conservative | May 14 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | The Assurance for Students Act? If we lived in less Orwellian times, this would probably be called the Assurance for Alison Redford Act.

Public research dollars, private profit | May 14 2013 | Duncan Cameron | With the privatization of research findings, discoveries and knowledge become industrial secrets, unavailable to Canadians who have paid for it, and lost to other scientists.

Open letter to Ontario NDP and Liberals: Working together is first step in addressing poverty | May 14 2013 | Brent Hawkes, Buzz Hargrove | We are asking the NDP and the Liberals to co-operate and pass the budget (possibility with some tweaking). However we are frankly asking for much more.

N.W.T. push for 'Made in the North' pipeline to carry Canadian crude to global markets via Yukon to Alaska | May 13 2013 | George Lessard | Reports: "...The NWT is promoting the idea of a "made-in-the-North" oil pipeline as a means to get Canadian crude to international markets.."

Who needs science? Not the Harper government! | May 13 2013 | Karl Nerenberg | Corporations operate on a quarterly timeline. Science operates on a generational timeline. Theories, hypotheses, insights and discoveries feed into and build on each other, over time.

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First Nations don't count in Harper's Canada | May 12 2013 | Daniel Wilson | Daniel Wilson looks at how information is used, or not used, to misinform policy concerning First Nations.

Coup d'états, cul-de-sacs, and la Cour suprême du Canada | May 12 2013 | Christopher Majka | Frédéric Bastien's La bataille de Londres claims the patriation of the Constitution was a coup d'état. Is this so? Must we endlessly replay the partisan battles that have disfigured Canadian politics?