Issues, ethics, memory
The Conservative government has thrown us into the 2011 election campaign. This is perhaps a good time to take stock of who the Harperites have spent their time attacking in the past several years. (They have also lavished favour on their own, appointing them to be judges, to the Immigration Review Board, the CRTC or... Continue Reading →
By Dennis Gruending I have posted several pieces over the past year about the Harper government's decision to deny project money to the ecumenical social justice group KAIROS. I have also written about CIDA Minister Bev Oda's deceitful behaviour in the whole matter. For months this story was in the back pages of the newspapers... Continue Reading →
In 2010, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper effectively destroyed the Montreal-based International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development. The organization had been created by Brian Mulroney, an earlier Conservative prime minister. But Harper's appointments to the organization's board accused it , falsely, of providing grants to terrorist organizations working against Israel.
Pulpit and Politics 