Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Harper’
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
Give the poor Crime Minister the chance he so desperately needs. Vote anybody but Conservative. Help Stasi Steve, Our Dear Leader, Stevil.. to stop all his relentless, exhausting fear-mongering… What is their dark agenda? What are they, roasting puppy dogs on sticks back there?
Help Marg Brings Change.
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Tags: Canada, Conservative Party, Conservatives, election, fear-mongering, Marg Brings Change, Marg Delahunty, Mary Walsh, niqab, Stephen Harper, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
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Monday, October 5th, 2015
Donald Sutherland, while attending the Toronto International Film Festival, was asked about the Canadian federal election on Oct 19, 2015. Thanks to the Conservative government’s changes to the Elections Act, Sutherland as a resident of the US has been rendered unable to vote and he has been very vocal about it in the media, especially given his feelings about the current Stephen Harper government.
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Tags: #elxn42, austerity, Canadian, Conservative Party of Canada, Donald Sutherland, election, Heave Steve, Kiefer Sutherland, peace, Stephen Harper
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Sunday, September 20th, 2015
“To me it’s a basic matter of integrity on the part of Canada. Canada is trading integrity for money. That’s what’s happening under the current leadership in CAanda, which is a very poor imitation of the George Bush administration in the United States. And it’s lagging behind on the world stage.
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Tags: Neil Young, oil sands, Stephen Harper, tar sands
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Sorry, another post on politics, not design (but see About). And this is one that will annoy my more partisan friends, though perhaps not as much as partisanship is annoying me.
So here’s Joyce Murray‘s idea for how to get Harper—Canada’s Republican/Tea Party equivalent—out of office in the next federal election.
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Tags: Canada, Canadian, coalition, Conservative Party, cooperation, federal election, female politician, gender parity, Green Party, grumpy cat, Harpocalypse, Joyce Murray, Liberal, lolcats, meme, NDP, Stephen Harper, women in politics
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Sunday, December 30th, 2012
Well it’s the last day of 2012, the end of another alarming year in a string of alarming years. These are not times to be proud of in Vancouver, in British Columbia or especially in Canada.
Still, the First Nations-led movement known as Idle No More is a sign of hope that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in serious trouble.
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Tags: 2012, Dan Murphy, firing, New Year's eve, politics, Postmedia, Province newspaper, Stephen Harper, Streisand Effect, Vancouver
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Friday, December 28th, 2012
I am in full support of Idle No More and Chief Theresa Spence’s now perilous hunger strike in a tipi across from Canada’s Parliament buildings in Ottawa. Chief of the beleaguered town on Attawapiskat in Ontario, where inadequate housing has led to a level of misery that attracted even UN censure, Spence is engaged in a desperate gambit to force PM Harper to speak with her.
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Tags: Am Johal, âpihtawikosisân, Attawapiskat, C-45, Canadian government, Chelsea Vowel, Chief Spence, Chief Theresa Spence, Conservative Party of Canada, First Nations, Glen Coulthard, Government of Canada, hunger strike, Idle No More, Marc Garneau, movement, omnibus budget bill, protest, Stephen Harper, UBC
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