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The Canadian Progressive: NDP demands action on missing $3.1 billion in...

By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Last week, the Auditor General reported that the Harper Conservatives can’t account for $3.1 billion of the $12.9 billion allocated to the Public Security...

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The Canadian Progressive: FREE CBC from Harper Conservatives political...

By: Friends of Canadian Broadcasting | Press Release: OTTAWA, May 8, 2013 – No public broadcaster in any free and democratic country anywhere in the world faces political interference with its...

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The Canadian Progressive: Sen. Patrick Brazeau defies Senate order to return...

By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Our Senatorial soap opera entered a new chapter on Tuesday. Independent Sen. Patrick Brazeau informed the media that he’ll defy the Senate’s order to repay...

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The Canadian Progressive: Harper’s chief of staff paid off Mike Duffy’s...

  Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright wrote a personal cheque worth more than $90,000 to pay back Senator Mike Duffy‘s living expenses, Harper’s office confirmed Wednesday. “Mr....

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The Canadian Progressive: Beleaguered Harper-appointed Sen. Mike Duffy Quits...

By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Scandal-plagued Sen. Mike Duffy quit the Conservative caucus Thursday after his fraudulent Senate expense claims threatened to engulf the Harper...

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The Canadian Progressive: Statements: Resignation of Harper’s Chief of Staff...

From the day it emerged that Stephen Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright cut a $90,000 personal cheque to cover Sen. Mike Duffy’s fraudulent Senate expense claims, the Conservatives tried desperately...

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The Canadian Progressive: Sen. Mike Duffy’s Scandal Torpedoes Nigel Wright:...

PM Stephen Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright resigned early Sunday following last week’s revelation that he cut a $90,000 personal cheque to cover Sen. Mike Duffy’s fraudulent Senate expense claims....

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The Canadian Progressive: #PMHarperMustResign: A Twitter storm demanding...

Via: KW Protests Greetings, concerned Canadians and global opponents to the Harper Government. We know how ridiculous and scandalous this excuse for a Government of Canada is. The most recent events...

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The Canadian Progressive: SHAME: Harper snubs journalists after speech to...

Via CBC News: Journalists aren’t allowed to ask Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the Senate expenses scandal, following his speech to caucus Tuesday. Then they’re kicked out. WATCH: The Canadian...

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The Canadian Progressive: Mike Duffy’s primary home not P.E.I., unedited...

Original document says expenses for winterized cottage should not have been claimed   A copy of the original report by an internal Senate committee on Senator Mike Duffy‘s expense claims, obtained by...

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The Canadian Progressive: Harper’s silent treatment of the Senate scandal...

Stephen Harper’s silent treatment of the Senate expenses scandal is a dictatorship-style assault on our collective intelligence. The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), a...

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The Canadian Progressive: CBC threatens to take Harper Government to court...

The CBC is threatening to take the Harper Conservatives to court over their attempt to impose dictatorship-style control on the Crown corporation through budget Bill C-60. The post CBC threatens to...

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The Canadian Progressive: NDP Leader Tom Mulcair Grills PM Harper On Senate...

Last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper fled to South America to avoid the unraveling Senate expenses scandal. On Monday, he skipped Question Period in the House of Commons. He did show up in the...

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The Canadian Progressive: Another blow for Harper as Conservative MP quits...

Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber (Photo: Alberta Diary) Conservative MPs on the House of Commons’s ethics committee amended Brent Rathgeber’s private member’s bill seeking salary disclosures. He’d...

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The Canadian Progressive: Elizabeth May Questions Harper on Enbridge’s...

During Question Period on Thursday, Green Party leader Elizabeth May asked Stephen Harper whether the feds would still approve Enbridge‘s Northern Gateway Pipeline, now officially rejected by British...

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The Canadian Progressive: Wright’s $90 000 Duffy gift came from a secret $1...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ex-chief of staff Nigel Wright tried to kill the Senate expenses scandal. He cut that $90,000 cheque which paid off Sen. Mike Duffy‘s fraudulent claims. Until now, the...

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The Canadian Progressive: Conservative attack on workers continues with...

By: Public Service Alliance of Canada | Press Release On June 5th, Conservative MP Blaine Calkins for Wetaskiwin (Alberta) introduced Bill C-525, an Act to change the certification and revocation...

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The Canadian Progressive: Harper Conservatives spying on well-known...

By: UFCW Canada | Press Release Dr. Cindy Blackstock (Photo credit: Art Babych) TORONTO, June 9, 2013 – As reported in the Toronto Star, the federal Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has...

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The Canadian Progressive: A Defining Moment for the Conservative Government?...

The CBC’s At Issue panel discusses Brent Rathgeber’s decision to quit the Conservative caucus and what it means to a Harper Government besieged by multiple crises. We recommend: Another blow for...

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The Canadian Progressive: Poll: 70% of Canadians think it’s time kick Stephen...

by: Obert Madondo | @Obiemad: Stephen Harper (Photo: Remy Steinegger) An overwhelming majority of Canadians think it’s time to kick Stephen Harper out and elect a new government, according to a new CTV...

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