Location: Manitoba Legislature Ottawa’s Omnibus Crime Bill, C-10 unjustly targets Canada’s most vulnerable communities, including First Nations and people suffering from mental illnesses. It strips away judicial discretion and removes our traditional emphasis on rehabilitation. These are basic principles of…
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Reel Green Film Festival
Manitoba’s only festival dedicated to environmental issues and solutions. Be informed. Be inspired. February 3 & 4, 2012 Feb. 3; Reel Celebration with feature film, Earthie awards, reception 7:30 – 10:00 PM (doors open at 7 PM) West End Cultural…
Social Justice Fair
Location: Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall, University of Winnipeg The 6th annual Social Justice Fair is offered to all UWinnipeg students by Menno Simons College (MSC) Student Services. The Fair serves as a venue to increase student awareness of organizations working toward social…
The dangerous consequences of Harper’s position on Iran
By Gerry Caplan, rabble.ca, Jan. 30, 2012 It’s unlikely that Stephen Harper, John Baird, Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich have ever heard of Tamir Pardo, Meir Dagan, Amos Yadlin, Gabi Ashkenazi or Yuval Diskin. But it would probably make no…
Two years after the quake, Haiti festers
By Paul S. Graham Two years after an earthquake killed 158,000, the majority of Haitians continue to battle against hunger, disease, homelessness and political repression. Half a million people remain in refugee camps and many thousands who have found other…
The US prepares for war with Iran
Beating the Drums of War: Provoking Iran into “Firing the First Shot” by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Jan. 14, 2012 Introduction While the possibility of a war with Iran is acknowledged in US news reports, its regional and global implications…
Haiti’s hard road to recovery
By Isabeau Doucet, The Guardian, Jan. 12, 2012 In Haiti, you’ll see a young man sitting on a crumbled wall blasting a song out of a bashed-up radio and singing along – apparently without irony – lyrics that just…
Video report: The battle for Iran
By Press for Truth The global elite wants a complete takeover of the Middle East. The situation with Iran is being manipulated in an effort to get the West behind their war of aggression in the name of peace and…
Iran: Iraq all over again?
Iran: the Neocons Are At It Again by Ralph Nader, Counterpunch, Jan. 12, 2012 The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, “lie their way into invading Iraq” in 2003, are beating…
Energy Wars 2012
Michael T. Clare, Counterpunch, Jan. 10, 2012 Welcome to an edgy world where a single incident at an energy “chokepoint” could set a region aflame, provoking bloody encounters, boosting oil prices, and putting the global economy at risk. With energy…