Stephen Harper

Après L'indignation, L'engagement!

Annick Papillon | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Mouvement Occupy, Leadership, Stephen Harper, Politique, Citoyens, Engagement Politique, Ottawa, Herper, Occupons Montreal, Engagement Citoyen, Occupy Wall Street, Npd, Engagement, Gouvernement Harper, Canada Quebec News

Que ce soit l'engagement communautaire ou l'engagement politique, il importe que les citoyens s'impliquent davantage. Signer une pétition ne prend que quelques minutes. Aider quelqu'un dans le besoin ou militer pour l'instauration d'une nouvelle politique prend quelques minutes de plus. Il importe que les citoyens prennent conscience de l'impact qu'ils peuvent avoir sur la société.

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'Green News Report' - February 23, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Wisconsin, Toxic Water, Rick Santorum, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Green News, Sustainability, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Republicans, Gas Prices, Selenium, Canada, Tar Sands, Don Blankenship, Massey Energy, Stephen Harper, Fukushima, Subsidies, Japan, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: GOP presi...

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Canada Scores Exciting Loan From China

AP | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Stephen Harper, China-Canada Relationship, China Pandas Canada, China Canada Oil, China, Canada, Canada Pandas, China Canada, China Pandas, World News

BEIJING -- Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up a visit to China aimed at boosting oil sales by announcing Saturday that Beijing will len...

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Canadian Prime Minister Talks Oil With China Following Obama's Pipeline Rejection

AP | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Northern Gateway Pipeline, Video, Stephen Harper, Oil Sands, Stephen Harper China, Canadian Oil Sands, Keystone XL Pipeline, Canadian Oil Exports, Keystone XL, Canada China Relations, China, Canada, Ap, Green News

BEIJING (AP) — Canada's prime minister is visiting China to discuss oil sales and other economic ties following President Barack Obama's rejection o...

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Canadian Officials Remain Hopeful Despite Keystone Setback

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Stephen Harper Keystone, Stephen Harper, Canada Keystone, Video, Keystone Canada, Keystone XL Pipeline, Keystone Xl Pipeline Canada, Keystone XL, Alison Redford, Clean Economy, Green News

TORONTO — Canada is looking at alternatives for exporting its oil since U.S. President Barack Obama announced he was blocking a pipeline from Al...

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Obama Administration Makes Decision On Keystone

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Obama Keystone Pipeline, Keystone, Video, Stephen Harper, Keystone XL Pipeline, Keystone XL, State Department, Obama Keystone, Clean Economy, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Acting on a recommendation from the State Department on Wednesday, President Barack Obama denied a permit for the contentious Keystone X...

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Unaccountable Oil: Enbridge Pipeline and "Ethical Oil" PR Pollution

James Hoggan | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Stephen Harper, Alberta Tar Sands, Oil Spill, Ezra Levant, Kathryn Marshall, Enbridge Northern Gateway, Ethical Oil, Astroturf, Canada, Enbridge Energy, Enbridge Pipeline, Video, Green News

Is this the kind of transparency that would give you confidence in how Enbridge might account for itself in the wake of an out-of-sight oil spill?

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Obama-Harper Border Deal Raises Privacy Concerns In Canada, Yawns In Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Stephen Harper, Video, Trade, Homeland Security, Beyond the Border, u.s.-Canada Trade, Information Sharing, u.s. Canada Border, Northern Border, Keystone Pipeline, Border Security, North-American-Security, Privacy, Barack Obama, Canada, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Considering the political obsession within the 2012 Republican presidential field over border security, the announcement of a new initia...

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'Green News Report' - November 29, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Oil Subsidies, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Michael Mann, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Climategate, Radiation, Video, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Fukushima, University of East Anglia, Carbon Emissions, Ipcc, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Barack Obama, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Fox News, Oceans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Japan, Extreme Weather, China, Hackers, United Nations, Canada, Christiana Figueres, Durban, Environmental Defense, Occupy, World Meteorological Organization, Stephen Harper, Occupy Wall Street, Unfccc, Green News

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Canada To Ease Gun Laws

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Gun Laws, Canada Gun Laws Eased, Stephen Harper, Canada Gun Control Law, Vic Toews, Gun Control Law, Canada Gun Laws, Canada, Canada Guns, World News

TORONTO — Canada's Conservative government introduced legislation Tuesday to scrap a controversial law that requires the registration of rifles ...

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Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing The Jewish Future

Dovid Efune | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Manmohan Singh, Julie Burchill, John Hagee, Stephen Harper, John Boehner, Jewish World, Rupert Murdoch, Jewish People, Warren Buffett, Patrick Debois, Jose Maria Aznar, Israel, Jon Voight, Judaism, Religion News

Similar to the criteria used by other list makers, I chose my candidates from around the world and from all walks of life. The list includes, politicians, activists, business giants and more.

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Canada Recognizes Libya's Rebels

AP | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: John Baird, Libya, Stephen Harper, Libya Rebels, Libya Rebels Canada, Nato, World News

OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada formally recognized the Libyan rebels as the legitimate government of the country on Tuesday. Foreign Affairs Minister...

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No Spring in Canada

Glen Pearson | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Arab Spring, G8 Summit 2011, Obama G8 2011, Stephen Harper, Canada G8, G8, Politics News

Spring might be dawning on the millions of people in the Arab world seeking freedom, but not in Canada, which has moved offside from where its G8 partners are heading.

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Watchdog Group To Canada: 'Little Or No Enforcement' Of Anti-Bribery Laws

The Canadian Press | Bruce Cheadle | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Canada Anti-Bribery, Transparency International, Stephen Harper, Canada, Stephen Harper Anti-Bribery, Home News

OTTAWA - (CP) Canada has again been singled out for failing to enforce anti-bribery rules abroad by an international report that points the finger at ...

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Fear of an Orange Planet: Canada and the Harper Majority

Christopher J. Finlay | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Quebec, Stephen Harper, 2011-Election-Canadas, Michael Ignatieff, Environment, Tea Party, Health Care, Jack Layton, World News

A cursory glance at Monday night's Canadian election resultmight give you the impression that after years of flirting with social and economic conservatism, our formerly progressive country had finally decided it was time to go steady.

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Historic Shift In Canadian Elections

AP | By ROB GILLIES | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Lester Pearson, Jean Chretien, Quebec, Stephen Harper, New Democrats, Jason Kenney, Michael Ignatieff, Bloc Quebecois, Pierre-Trudeau, Canada, Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Jack Layton, Canada Parliament, World News

TORONTO -- Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper won his coveted majority government in elections Monday that also marked a shattering defeat for...

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What I've Learned From Canada's Election Campaign

Bill Mann | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Msnbc, Cbc, Cnn, Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Fox, Canada, Victoria, B.C., Jack Layton, World News

A few things I've learned covering Canada's current national election campaign for MarketWatch.com this past month from my vantage point on the Canadian border, where I get Canadian radio and TV.

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Canada: Tweeting Election Results Is Illegal, Based On 1938 Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Canada Elections, Stephen Harper, Canada Twitter Election, Twitter, Twitter Elections, Tweettheresults, Social Media Elections, Elections Canada, Canada, Technology News

In Canada, a tweet is worth $25,000. Or, at least it is if you're tweeting on election night, when posting the results of the election before polls ha...

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Opposition Topples Canadian Government

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Canada Government Falls, Canada Government, Canada, Stephen Harper Government, Stephen Harper, World News

TORONTO — Canadian opposition parties brought down the Conservative government in a no confidence vote Friday, triggering an election that polls...

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Regulators Reject Proposal That Would Bring Fox-Style News to Canada

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Harper, Fox News, Sun News, Media News

Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast....any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right wing talk radio out of Canada.

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Canadian Prime Minister Urges U.S. To Approve Cross-Country Oil Pipeline

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Canada, Canadian Pipeline, Stephen Harper, Keystone XL Pipeline, Stephen Harper Keystone Xl, Oil Pipeline, Stephen Harper Obama, Stephen Harper Pipeline, Green News

WASHINGTON — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday urged U.S. officials to approve an oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast...

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Bribing Israel: Enhancing the Swag

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military Aid, Obama Administration, Israel, Bds, Stephen Harper, Settlement Freeze, Israeli Settlements, World News

What does Israel have to give up for the $3 billion worth of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters? A one-time-only 90-day partial settlement moratorium in the West Bank, not including Occupied Arab East Jerusalem.

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Chile Mine Rescue: Global Reactions (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chilean Miners, Chile Miners Rescue, Stephen Harper, Barack Obama, Chile Miners Trapped, Slidepollajax, Chile, Chilean Miners Rescue, China, Chile Miners, Justin Bieber, Diego Maradona, Pele, World News

As the Chile mine rescue ordeal unfolded over roughly 36 hours, few around the world were able to tear their eyes away from their TV or computer scree...

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WATCH: Canada's New Governor-General Stars In Rap Video

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: University of Waterloo, Stephen Harper, David Johnston, Michaelle Jean, Canada, Canada Governor-General Designate, Canada Governor-General, David Lloyd Johnston, Video, World News

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed David Johnston, president and vice chancellor of the University of Waterloo, as the country's next go...

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Climate Backslide! As Public Opinion Moves One Way, Politicians Go The Other

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G8, g20 Pittsburgh, BP Oil Spill, US President Barack Obama, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Climate Action, Fresh Air Center Bonn, World Leaders, Fossil Fuel Dependency, g20, Tcktcktck, Stephen Harper, Green News

Despite BP's ongoing colossal oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, the G20 remains unwilling to take action to break the world's addiction to dirty energy.

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