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Harper v. Canada: News Headlines On June 25 2012

Harper v. Canada: News Headlines On June 25 2012 | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it

Make no mistake about it. Canada’s progressive and democratic forces are converging around Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his burgeoning elected dictatorship. And Harper and his merry bunch of Conservative praise-fingers are feeling the heat. At least according to the headlines in the last couple of days.

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Meet the Students Who Will Achieve What Occupy Wall Street Couldn't - PolicyMic

Meet the Students Who Will Achieve What Occupy Wall Street Couldn't - PolicyMic | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
PolicyMic Meet the Students Who Will Achieve What Occupy Wall Street Couldn't PolicyMic Through their website and tech-roots campaigning, these tech-roots activists have successfully maintained solidarity and direction, unlike their Occupy Wall...
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Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty ... - Democracy Now

Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty ... - Democracy Now | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty ...
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A new campaign for indigenous rights and environmental justice is spreading across Canada.
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Idle No More Movement Blocks Highway To Oilsands

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FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The leader of an aboriginal community near the Alberta oilsands says the federal government is clearing the way for development on traditional land.Chief Alan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says Ottawa's omnibus...
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Letter from the Leader of the Official Opposition to the Prime Minister regarding the rights of First Nations

Letter from the Leader of the Official Opposition to the Prime Minister regarding the rights of First Nations | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Thomas Mulcair, Fighting for you - Canada's New Democrats.
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Idle No More - Message from Colombia to First Nations

Idle No More. Nasa people support First Nations From our ancestral territories, the Nasa people, part of the Indigenous Movement of the Cauca, Colombia, hono...
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Cuba: Importance of US Progressive Movement Highlighted - Prensa Latina

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Cuba: Importance of US Progressive Movement Highlighted Prensa Latina 26 de diciembre de 2012, 12:10Havana, Dec 26 (Prensa Latina) It is important that the progressive movement in the United States strengthens to influence the government decisions...
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Syria's War Leaves Its Scars On The Children - NPR

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The war in Syria is taking a huge toll on the children. A United Nations team, which interviewed Syrian kids in a refugee camp in Turkey, found that three out of four have lost a family member.
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Terrorists and criminals: Documents prove FBI monitored OWS — RT

Terrorists and criminals: Documents prove FBI monitored OWS — RT | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Newly obtained documents confirm that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was monitoring peaceful protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement before the first OWS demonstrations even began.
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Michael Sandel’s Famous Harvard Course on Justice Now Available as a MOOC: Register Today

Michael Sandel’s Famous Harvard Course on Justice Now Available as a MOOC: Register Today | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Back in 2009, Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel made his course, Justice: (Michael Sandel’s Famous Harvard Course on Justice Now Available as a MOOC: Register Today | Open Culture http://t.co/ZJHPRgR3)...
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s pro-gun stance causing concern

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s pro-gun stance causing concern | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Gun lobby in Canada causing Stephen Harper political embarrassment (Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s pro-gun stance causing concern - http://t.co/zXZGb564 #cdnpoli)...
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Top 5 Men Who Supported Feminism In 2012

Top 5 Men Who Supported Feminism In 2012 | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Defining feminism as the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of equality to men, here are my top picks for men supporting feminism in 2012 (RT @jkfecke: Sad that I didn't make the list...
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Ottawa should step up on native education

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Of the many problems facing Canada’s native people, perhaps nothing is more harmful than inadequate federal government funding for schools on reserves.
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NRA's solutions show Americans the true face of gun culture

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Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association, would turn the U.S. into an armed camp (Fear mongering & demagogic indeed!
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democracy international: Direct Democracy - The Book

democracy international: Direct Democracy - The Book | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
democracy international is a network promoting direct democracy.Our goal is the establishment of initiatives and referendums as a complement to representative democracy within the EU and in the nation states.We work on questions of world-wide...
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NDP MP urges Harper to meet with Spence, end hunger strike

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Federal NDP MP Charlie Angus is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to meet with Attiwapiskat Chief Theresa Spence to end her two week-long hunger strike, saying it would help the prime minister demonstrate leadership.
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Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media

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Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media (Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media: http://t.co/92Q9lSNg)
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An open letter to Prime Minster Stephen Harper: Let our words not be empty

An open letter to Prime Minster Stephen Harper: Let our words not be empty | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Mr. Prime Minister, Since December 11, 2012, Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation has been on a hunger strike.
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Canada 150: Canadians invited to pitch ideas for celebration - Calgary Herald

Canada 150: Canadians invited to pitch ideas for celebration - Calgary Herald | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Canada.com Canada 150: Canadians invited to pitch ideas for celebration Calgary Herald The cross-country series of public consultations will begin next month and continue until June, with people from every corner of Canada invited to pitch ideas...
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Why Is Turkey's Prime Minister at War with a Soap Opera? - TIME

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Why Is Turkey's Prime Minister at War with a Soap Opera? By Piotr ZalewskiDec. 26, 20120. Share. Why Is Turkey's Prime Minister at War with a Soap Opera?
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GOP's 'demographic cliff' and the new politics of immigration - The Hill (blog)

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GOP's 'demographic cliff' and the new politics of immigration The Hill (blog) The results of the 2012 elections showed that Republicans are teetering at the edge of a “demographic cliff.” They have alienated Latino voters so thoroughly that they...
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Euroscepticism growing among voters, Guardian/ICM poll finds

Euroscepticism growing among voters, Guardian/ICM poll finds | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
More than half of respondents say they would vote to take UK out of EU if a referendum took place tomorrow (@Conservatives @UKIP @UKLabour @LibDems Euroscepticism growing among voters. Time for a referendum?
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DND removes report on killing of Canadian soldier by Israeli forces

DND removes report on killing of Canadian soldier by Israeli forces | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
The Defence Department has quietly removed from the Internet a report into the killing of a Canadian (RT @ASE: Oh, Canada. Defense Dept removes report on killing of Canadian soldier by Israel forces.
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Iranian Opposition, MEK, Removed From Canada’s Black List

Iranian Opposition, MEK, Removed From Canada’s Black List | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
Iranian opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, MeK, has one more reason to celebrate at the 2012 year-end.
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UN Finally Admits Syria is a Holy War, Not a Rebellion

UN Finally Admits Syria is a Holy War, Not a Rebellion | The Canadian Progressive | News and Opinion | Scoop.it
RT @mistere777: UN Finally Admits Syria is a Holy War, Not a Rebellion http://t.co/gMfkfwXc
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Australians rush to join war in Syria

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AUSTRALIAN security agencies believe more than 100 Australians have joined the civil war in Syria, sparking fears the conflict could produce a wave of home-grown jihadists hardened with combat skills and training.
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