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Stephen Harper is the Antithesis to Canadian Values

In 2011, I and my fellow Canadians were called to the voting booths midway into... more

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What Harper Wants

Humour about priorities of Canadian Conservative Party.

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Harper Escapes Ridicule By The Skin Of His Teeth

Election visit of Stephen Harper to Winnipeg ends in odd scene.

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Canadian PM promises free trade with India

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that a re-elected Conservative... more

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Harper's government first in Canadian history to be found in contempt of Parliament

Harper government falls in historic Commons showdown GLORIA GALLOWAY Ottawa—... more

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BREAKING NEWS: Stephen Harper admits he is a cyborg sent here to kill us all!

In what some are describing as the most brazen move of his political career, Prime... more

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Let's play guess the country!

Which country has the closest and most loyal relationship with Israel? Hint: It's... more

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Senior advisor to Canuckistani PM Stephen Harper issues fatwa against Wikileaks director

An Alberta political science prof and senior advisor to Canadian Prime Minister... more

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Canada to open new Arctic station at Cambridge Bay

Canada will set up a research station at Cambridge Bay in the Arctic, Prime Minister... more

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Cheech and Chong Slam Stephen Harper

From the Canadian Press: "Cheech and Chong have some blunt advice for Stephen... more

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New poll confirms Canadians think pretty highly of themselves, eh?

A poll prepared by Ipsos-Reid shows that while a majority of Canuckistanis would like... more

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Toronto G20 summit organizers spend $2 million Canuck bucks on artificial lake in Canada!

Ignoring Lake Ontario and a few thousand other real lakes within spitting distance of... more

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G20 summit's $2 million dollar "fake lake" has Canadian taxpayers in stitches!

With the total price tag for hosting the June G8/G20 summits in Toronto and Muskoka... more

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Canadian PM claims credit for liquidating Obama's proposed global bank tax

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Activists send message to Canada via a 70-foot banner about tar sands over Niagara Falls (VIDEO)

When I got wind that the Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) was planning to welcome the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper before his first official visit to the White House with a "warm welcome", my imagination took off. I wondered what RAN had up it's sleeve this time. You've got to love RAN, they've managed to walk that fine line of activism where their larger than life actions (aka activism) usually involve humor, make a memorable point, and rarely have the grandiose offensive air that many people have expressed about some of their activist counterparts. But the term "warm" welcome really got my imagination going and I started wondering, "geesh, are they going to go off the deep end and light something on fire to illustrate some point about global warming?"

Well, I was right about RAN going off the deep end (but that's all I was right about). They dropped a 70 foot banner over (nothing warm about it) Niagara Falls to illustrate the point that continuing to mine the tar sands was taking the world in one direction, while climate change activism is working toward the opposite direction.

Joshua Kahn Russel of RAN explains the reason behind the action in greater detail:
"During Harper’s first official trip to meet Obama in the U.S., the two leaders are expected to discuss climate change and energy policy ahead of the upcoming G20 Summit. Canada supplies 19% of U.S. oil imports, more than half of which now comes from the tar sands, making the region the largest single source of U.S. oil imports. The expansion of the tar sands will strip mine an area the size of Florida. Complete with skyrocketing rates of cancer (by 400%!) for First Nations communities living downstream, broken treaties, toxic belching lakes so large you can see them from outer space, churning up ancient boreal forest, destroyed air and water quality, the tar sands have been called the most destructive project on Earth."

Tomorrow’s visit to the U.S. by Prime Minister Harper is the latest attempt by Canadian Federal and Provincial officials to lock in subsidies for 22 new and expanded refinery projects and oil pipelines crisscrossing 28 states, which would transport and process the dirty tar sands oil. Many are concerned that Prime Minister Harper wants to protect the tar sands even though it is one of the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada."
We caught up with Tar Sands Campaigner, Eriel Deranger a few hours after their 5 climbers had been arrested to explain what they hoped to accomplish:

Please tell us if there is a specific topic that you want to see covered.When I got wind that the Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) was planning to welcome the... more

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Harper Blows More Hot Air on YouTube Marijuana Questions

CANNABIS CULTURE - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper answered questions this... more

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Canadian PM Harper Accused of Shutting Down Torture Probe

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C-15 is Dead!

I have some great news! C-15 is no more. Today, Stephen Harper asked the Governor... more

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Passing of Bill C-15

A vote was carried out yesterday to amend Bill C-15 What will this mean for Canadians?

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STOP BILL C-15 Mandatory Minimums Pass House With Support of Liberals

CANNABIS CULTURE - Controversial drug bill C-15, which includes mandatory minimum jail sentences for small amounts of marijuana, passed the Canadian House of Commons with the support of both Liberal and Conservative parties. The bill now moves to the Senate for a final vote.

Health experts and activists criticized the bill for including mandatory sentences, which have been proven ineffective and destructive time and again in studies.

Despite a backlash from the NDP and some Liberal members in the days before the final vote, the majority of Liberals supported the bill, which passed with a vote of 194 to 54. The bill needs only Senate support to become law.

"I think it is really bad news," Libby Davies, MP for Vancouver East (NDP), told Cannabis Culture, "the evidence shows very, very strongly - overwhelmingly - that mandatory minimum sentencing is not an effective policy when it comes to drug crime. My fear is that we are going to see more people in jail, and more people fighting charges because they know they will be facing a mandatory minimum sentence. That means more court time and more backlogs."

With Canada's prison system already overstretched to the breaking point, experts say the bill could create a create a dangerous influx of new inmates.

"We are now going down a path the Americans went down 25 years ago," said Kirk Tousaw, a criminal lawyer and executive director of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation. "A path they are now abandoning because of the incredible devastation that these kinds of sentences have caused to their criminal justice system and to the social fabric of their communities."

If passed, the bill would enact a number of minimum sentences for drug crimes, including an automatic six month jail term for as few as five plants. The bill has been lambasted for targeting first time drug offenders and small-time dealers and users, instead of focusing on high-level producers and distributors.

"Mid and upper-level traffickers will get no particular increase in punishment, because a major dealer would already get six months or a year for any kind of trafficking," said Vancouver marijuana activist (and CC editor) Marc Emery. "What we’re going to see is people who wouldn’t normally go to jail, they’re going to be the people affected. Largely young people in schoolyards - because if you are dealing around a school, it’s an enhanced penalty. The enhanced penalties of six months, a year, two years, are going to affect, almost exclusively, people under the age of twenty-five."

If passed, the bill will undoubtedly fill Canada's already overtaxed prison system with non-violent offenders, and demand more police for proper enforcement.CANNABIS CULTURE - Controversial drug bill C-15, which includes mandatory minimum jail... more

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