The Canadian Progressive: Aagh, Harper Conservatives Nuked Democratic NDP...
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 14, 2013: Showing their burgeoning disdain for accountability, transparency, financial oversight and the independence of federal watchdogs, the Harper...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Environmental Activists “Threat To...
RCMP and CSIS treat peaceful protest actions and questioning the Harper Government as ‘forms of attack’, label activists involved “national security threats”, documents reveal. By Obert Madondo | The...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Bad Week For The Tar Sands: March...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Infographic via: Facebook/Shit Harper Did I recommend: Exxon pipeline breaks, spills 84,000 gallons of Canadian tar sands oil in Arkansas (VIDEO) We...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: FAA imposed no-fly zone over...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday imposed a no-fly zone over the site of the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline disaster in Mayflower,...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Harper government misled...
New study confirms government misled public on Environmental Assessment ‘delays’ By: Sierra Club Canada | Press Release: OTTAWA – A study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: New undemocratic rules barrier to...
Rules “a consequence of weakened federal environmental laws under Bill C-38″ By: Greenpeace Canada & Environmental Defence | Press Release: TORONTO, ON, Apr 5, 2013 – New undemocratic rules are...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Tar Sands: Exxon’s New “Energy Everywhere” Program...
Political satirist Andy Cobb’s take on the recent ExxonMobil tar sands oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas: America’s oil industry is terribly misunderstood. When a lot of people hear “364 pipeline spills...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: InsideClimate wins Pulitzer Prize for reporting on...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: On Monday, three reporters from nonprofit online news site InsideClimate were honored with a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Canada’s tar sands and...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: EPA Trashes State Department’s Positive Evaluation...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The powerful U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to be taking its mandate seriously. At least as far as the State Department’s recent...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: First Nation demands resignation of Alberta Energy...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is demanding the resignation of Gerry Protti, the newly-appointed chair of Alberta Energy Regulator, a new...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Alberta Tar Sands: The Royalty Rip Off [VIDEO]
We recommend:FAA imposed no-fly zone over Exxon’s Pegasus tar sands oil spill siteState Department’s Keystone XL Project Review Upsets EnvironmentalistsTar Sands: Exxon’s New “Energy Everywhere”...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: 30 groups demand removal of Alberta Energy...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Over 30 environmental, landowner, labour, rights and First Nation groups have written to Alberta Premier Alison Redford demanding the immediate removal of...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Keystone XL Pipeline could cost $100 billion per...
EPA Asks State Department for Total Cost to Society of KXL, Oil Change International Spells it Out By: Oil Change International | Press Release: WASHINGTON – May 7 – Oil Change International today...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Enbridge asks NEB to keep pipeline safety issues...
By: Council of Canadians | Press Release: Eighteen months after being ordered to correct important safety issues with its oil and gas pipelines, Enbridge has finally filed a plan with the National...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Dr. James Hansen: Keystone XL, tar sands expansion...
By: Dr. James Hansen Today (May 9, 2013) 36 Norwegian organizations sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stoltenberg expressing opposition to development of Canadian tar sands by Statoil (the...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Corporate welfare: Petronas seeks billions in...
by: Obert Madondo Follow @Obiemad | Published Wed, Aug 13, 2014 2012 PowerShift protest in Ottawa. (Photo: OBERT MADONDO/The Canadian Progressive) In 2012, I complained that Prime Minister Stephen...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Instead of Whinging About Boomers, Explain Yourself.
Millennials and Gen-Xers are fond of blaming the Boomer generation for their woes. Cheap talk from people who vote for parties that keep the Canadian petro-state locked into fossil fuels. That means...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: "A Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide" I Guess That Sums It Up.
If you’re planning on being around for another two or three decades you’ll be witness to a world like you’ve never known it. What’s in store for you is a darker, more dangerous and, ultimately,...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Europe Calling, Justin. You Might Want to Take...
The EU elections showed that voters are abandoning old school politics and the same old, same old. Small wonder. Right wing populists appear to be the big winners but also rising is the Green Party....
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