Harper is in Toronto on Wednesday. Let him know how you feel about prorogation. Join the picket.
Stephen Harper will be in Toronto on Wednesday afternoon to attend a roundtable meeting with the C.D. Howe Institute. Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (Toronto) will be there to meet him, and to let him know how we feel about [...]
We need your help!
Promote the rally for January 23.
NO to prorogation! YES to democracy!
Canadians against Proroguing Parliament (Toronto) has organized a rally and march for Saturday, January 23 at 1:00pm at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto. And we urgently need your help to promote it. Here’s how you can help spread the word:
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Pro- democracy activists and concerned citizen across Canada now have a new tool at their disposal:
NO PROROGUE! The Website
This portal contains information on the over 30 protests that will be happening across the country on Saturday January 23rd including planning meetings, skills required from volunteers, and the location and time of individual events.
A site with [...]
By Michael Wheeler
The opposition will slip into irrelevance and play directly into Stephen Harper’s plans unless they present a united pro-democracy federalist coalition before the next election.
Harper’s latest prorogation of Parliament immediately follows the majority of Parliament passing an “order-to-produce” that demands access to documents that may prove damaging to the government and may include [...]
Department of Culture Supporter,
We wanted to tell you about an important initiative to increase municipal arts funding in Toronto that needs citizen action to be realized.
It really is possible to dramatically increase Toronto Arts Council funding with action this week. See the plan from beautifulcity.ca below.
DoC
PS - Stay tuned for new DoC initiatives in [...]
Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, makes an excellent case for the death of death of laissez-faire capitalism on the website RealClearPolitics.com. It contains several bon mots including:
“The problem wasn’t just the bathwater; the baby itself is rotten to the core.”
“Wall Street got drunk,” he says. Maybe so, but who made the last [...]
The media has been full of looping images of shoes flying at President Bush’s head and gloomy economic forecasts. Maybe the solution to our economic woes lies somewhere between the two:
“Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has been swamped with orders from across the world, after insisting that his company produced the [...]
The Canadian Blog Awards have announced the winners in the final round of voting for Best Cultural/Entertainment Blog. Department of Culture came 2nd!
Thanks to:
A: The folks who organized the awards.
B: The people who voted for us.
C: The many different artists from across the country that have made or submitted work to be included on the [...]
The Globe and Mail is reporting that of the two rallies held in Toronto, The Pro-Coalition Rally was 6 times larger than the Conservative one.
3000+ braved sub-zero temperatures at Nathan Philips Square, while just 500 managed to show up at Queen’s Park to listen to a 17-year-old accuse 62% of voters of engaging in a [...]
