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Mama’s Broke’s ‘dark, fiery folk-without-borders sound’ absorbs traditions from their maritime home in Eastern Canada all the way to Ireland and Indonesia. Photo: Canadian folk duo Mama’s Broke (Amy Lou and Lisa Marie) live at Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019 16 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News We find ourselves at a place in time when…
‘There’s kids the same age as us in Ukraine that are picking up a weapon and … fighting for their country’ 14 March 2022 | Stephen Whyno | AP via CBC Sergiy Ivanyuk didn’t sleep the first 10 nights. His mind is on his mother in his hometown of Kyiv and his girlfriend and two…
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This Clipper Media op-ed piece by James Porteous, which looks at the state of post-covid protests, was reprinted by EurasiaReview. Photo: Police in Ottawa, Canada prepare to break up trucker protest. Photo Credit: Tasnim News Agency 21 February 2022 | James Porteous | EurasiaReview Much like in 2006, corporations, rich people and media have decided…
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Here we see Trudeau’s Canada following the example of Biden’s America, a ‘liberal’ government blithely casting dissenting citizens as a domestic-terrorist threat Photo: Getty 17 February 2022 | TOM SLATER | Spiked We need new political labels. That much has become clear amid Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s crackdown on the truckers’ revolt – the now weeks-long protests…
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The Canadian Parliament will meet today (17 Feb – 10:00 AM local time) to begin debate on the Emergency Act. See page for details and links to the streamed version of the proceedings. Photo: Flag flies in front of Canada’s Parliament Building 17 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media The Canadian Parliament will…
Invoking the Emergency Act now, in response to peaceful Canadians engaging in legal protest, is a stretch of epic and frightening proportions 16 February 2022 | MEGHAN MURPHY | Spiked (UK) On Monday prime minister Justin Trudeau announced he would be invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the ongoing ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests in Canada. For several weeks now,…
Details including names, email addresses and postal codes of almost 100,000 donors to the GiveSendGo fundraiser were leaked online. The Canadian government wants to freeze all contributions made via the site via the Emergency Act. 15 February 2022 | Charlie Pinkerton and Andy Takagi | QP Briefing Solicitor General Sylvia Jones‘s communications director is no longer…
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Canadian PM surprised Canadians – and everyone else in the world – when he invoked a never-before-used act, sparking world-wide coverage – and then protests against the Act around the world. Photo: Protesters began converging on Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, late last month [File: Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo] 15 Februrary 2022 | Staff | Al Jazerra…
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Mr Trudeau, who seems to be unaware that similar protests are taking place all over the world on a daily basis, is taking these steps days after the border crossings were re-opened. His father, former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau, had invoked the War Measures Act to deal with a real emergency situation. 14 Feburary 2022…
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As music director for CKLW-AM in Windsor, Ontario, she furthered the careers of Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, the Temptations in Detroit and beyond. Photo: Rosalie Trombley of the radio station CKLW in an undated photo. Ed Haun/Detroit Free Press 17 December 2021 | Neil Genzlinger | The New York Times Whatever story you have about…
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The Quebecois author was revolutionary in so many ways, she remained a nomad and a devoted advocate for the Francophonie. 30 November 2021 | Staff | Canadian Press | With Additional material MONTREAL — The novelist, playwright and poet Marie-Claire Blais has passed away. She was 82 years old. Goodwin artists’ agency, which represented her,…
They argued Quebec’s ban on indoor smoking goes too far, because it forbids actors seeking to capture a play’s essence from smoking even prop cigarettes onstage. 10 November 2021 | Jacob Serebrin | The Canadian Press via Toronto Star MONTREAL – A Quebec court judge has upheld fines issued to three Quebec City theatres where…
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