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Harper government holds women back

Here are Joyce Murray’s (Member of Parliament) recent words in our Federal legislature: Mr. Speaker, 48 years ago today, Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson officially established the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, based on the concept of equal opportunity for women and men. The royal commission played a major role in defining […]

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Yeah for the Senators who are pressuring Harper for women

I just read that Serge Joyal and Lillian Dyke, two Canadian Senators are pursuing a legal route to force our Prime Minister to look into the missing aboriginal women. So far the federal government has refused to do a full inquiry and Mr. Stephen Harper has suggested that the missing women issue is about  individual criminal matters and

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Canadians are so complacent and need to tell governments to stop abuse

Canadians are so complacent! Our governments are flagrantly abusing democracy and we hardly hear a peep. Do you know what prorogued means? It means the government decides not to sit in the legislature. For about half the year! This has happened at the federal level and at provincial levels so many times in the last few years

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Prisons do not work

You know this. And I know this. Yet our Canadian government wants to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for minor marijuana offenses. Imagine, more kids who try marijuana will end up in our newly built prisons. Recently a handful of American law enforcers were so disturbed by this that they actually  wrote a letter to our

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