News & Current Affairs
Canada Remembers the 21st Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre
“Ceremonies were held in Montreal and across the country Sunday to mark the 20th anniversary of Canada’s worst mass shooting.
Fourteen women died when shooter Marc Lépine staged his attack at Montreal’s École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989.
Armed with a rifle, he stormed into a classroom, separated the men from the women, and declared he hated feminists before opening fire on the women. Lépine turned the gun on himself after his 20-minute rampage, which wounded 13 others.
The shooting, which came to be known as the Montreal Massacre, sparked a national debate about gun control and violence against women.
In 1991, Parliament declared Dec. 6 the National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence Against Women.”
Read the full article at the CBC website.
Related:
Gun tracing regulations delayed for a third time by Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government in Ottawa – stop the madness! [Toronto Star]
Operation Payback: ‘Hacktivists’ Attack the MasterCard and Visa Websites in Support of WikiLeaks
Read more:
It’s cyber war: hackers target MasterCard and PayPal in revenge for them pulling the plug on WikiLeaks. [Daily Mail UK]
Thomas Walkom: History suggest that when push comes to shove, media monopolies are unlikely to stand up for WikiLeaks. [Toronto Star]
Heather Mallick: “Calling all cowards, calling all cowards…” – WikiLeaks’s foes love the sound the sound of silence.
Sanity and Compassion Return to the Immigration Reform Debate
Fox News’ can try and equate this with Healthcare Reform which the Right lost on too but guess what: the DREAM Act bill passed the House. Too bad it probably won’t make it through the Senate though…..
Did President Obama Cave into the Republicans on the Tax Cut Issue?
Watch the video and judge for yourself:
Or read Obama Defends Tax-Cut Plan as ‘Good Deal’ for Americans from The New York Times for more.
Stephen Colbert seems to break down the core issue here pretty succinctly from my point of view: Colbert To Obama: ‘Republicans Just Aren’t That Into You.’
Now hit the jump for a video of Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) arguing against extending tax cuts for millionaires. LOVE that dude.
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Maybe Wyclef Jean Could Have Had a Shot at Being Haitian President After All?!
“When Mirlande Manigat arrived at Collège Frère Ladauceur on Nov. 28 to cast her vote in Haiti’s presidential election, no cheering mob was there to greet her. She pulled up in a bulletproof SUV, surrounded by police flourishing automatic weapons and slowly, ever so slowly, made her way to the entrance.
Short, with gold-rimmed glasses and hair tied back, the 70-year-old former first lady had a vague air of Miss Marple about her, which shouldn’t completely surprise, given Manigat’s outsized admiration for all things Agatha Christie.
Only an hour earlier, in Pétionville, Michel Martelly had similarly cast a ballot, but his arrival at a three-storey high school was all pop-star pandemonium, with mothers pushing their children forward for a glimpse of the politician formerly known as “Sweet Micky,” bad-boy singer of kompas, Haiti’s version of merengue.
In what once seemed the least likely result of a presidential campaign involving 19 candidates, Haiti’s electoral council is now widely expected to announce Tuesday that Manigat and Martelly will go head to head in a runoff slated for Jan. 16.”
CLICK to read the full article, “Unlikely pair seen as Haiti frontrunners.” [Toronto Star]
Sheeeiiiit, if ‘Sweet Mickey’ is in the running to win right now, imagine what woulda happened if the Preacher’s Son had made it onto the ballot?!! Hit the jump for Wyclef Jean‘s track, “Election Time” for his take on that:
#DK11: The album, This One Goes To Eleven… OUT NOW
