Friend of the Department of Culture “Mike Canada” has been posting his election-themed comic books online, and this one is particularly good, about the Stephen Harper Conservatives’ mismanagement of the Canadian economy. You can see the full comic at Mike’s MySpace profile. And you can click here to download a black-and-white PDF of the six-page [...]
A Department of Culture chapter is active in Montreal, and we’ve added their information to our National page.
Visit their French-language website
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Join their group on Facebook
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The Department of Culture now has a branch operating in Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Local supporters should email them at culture.palliser@gmail.com for further details, or download their press release to find out how to get involved locally. The Palliser group will also be hosting their own THIS IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE PARTY on Thursday, [...]
Toronto artist Lisa Kiss has silkscreened these (limited-edition!) T-shirts that are available now for purchase, with proceeds supporting the Department of Culture. Wear it and stand out on Nuit Blanche. Details for purchasing a shirt — or downloading the design and making your own — are available on our Resources page.
There’s now a branch of the Department of Culture active in Winnipeg. There are over a dozen more DOCs gearing up across the country — we’ll keep you posted here, and on our “National” page, as information comes rolling in.
The Winnipeg group has started their own blog, which is available here.
For Immediate Release: September 26, 2008
Please add this information to your listings.
The Department of Culture presents
THIS IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE PARTY!
ROCKING THE VOTE RIGHT ACROSS CANADA
THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 2008
THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE
410 SHERBOURNE STREET TORONTO
FEATURING A HOST OF CANADIAN MUSICAL TALENT, PERFORMANCES AND VIDEOS CREATED BY SOME OF THE NATION’S FAVOURITE CELEBS AND THE FINAL [...]
The site was down Wednesday evening due to a larger problem that our web hosting provider was experiencing. We’re working now to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Sorry for the outage, everyone…
James Bradshaw writes an article in Today’s Globe and Mail showing that the Conservative government’s claim that they have actually increased arts and culture spending doesn’t hold water. The article appears on the front page of the Review section, and is available online here. Send it to friends and family, post it on your facebook [...]
The Canadian Medical Association Journal recently published an editorial saying that cuts to public health programs under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government helped produce the lacklustre response we’ve seen to the recent Listeriosis outbreak. Below is a short excerpt. The full editorial is available as a PDF here.
“Government policy errors helped bring about this epidemic. Yet [...]
