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Blog
Gary Shaul
| We can do a great service to voters by linking executive abuse of power (prorogation in this case) with the need for democratic reform, particularly electoral reform at this juncture. |
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Blog
rabble staff
| On Saturday Jan. 23, thousands of Canadians gathered at protests across the country and the world to voice their discontent with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's move to prorogue Parliament. |
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News
John Deverell
| Imagine the Canadians Against Proroguing rally next Saturday and there, gazing from a chilly platform over a crowd of university students sprinkled with older folk, stands Michael Ignatieff. |
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Blog
Christopher White
| Over 200,000 people have come together against the prorogue on Facebook, organizing for rallies taking place across Canada January 23. Here the group's creater talks about his hopes for mobilization. |
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Podcast
Matthew Adams, Stephen Benedetti
| Having self-prorogued IRTN is back looking at Harper's continued revolution, the importance of the upcoming Massachusetts Senate race on U.S. health care and the invasion of the body scanners. |
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Blog
Eric Mang
| If prorogation angers you, you're probably just a chattering class elitist. |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Stephen Harper said that prorogation isn't No. 1 on anyone's radar. Yet, now half of Canadians say they are watching the issue "closely," and he's in a virtual tie with the Liberal leader. |
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Columnists
Alice Klein
| Hundreds flooded the unmiked basement space in Hart House booked for the Friday, January 8, organizing meeting for the January 23 anti-prorogue rally. |
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News
Meagan Perry
| So you've joined the Facebook group against proroguing Parliament. Now what? Are you going to heft your body away from your desk to join in the Jan. 23 rally in your 'hood? |
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Blog
James Laxer
| This week on BNN, Stephen Harper said that financial markets don't like the "kind of instability" that goes with confidence votes. |
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Podcast
Meagan Perry
| Online activism and activism on the street. What is the difference? Regent Park is changing, and so are women's rights worldwide. Listen in to find out more. |
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Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| Stephen Harper has created a hornet's nest for himself with his decision to prorogue Parliament, arousing the wrath of even the social-networking crowd. |
