February 21, 2012
Harper Government Is Trying To Intimidate Environmental Groups (OT)
Blogpost by Bruce Cox, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada - February 17, 2012 at 12:04
I was disappointed to read yesterday’s report in the Globe and Mail about Greenpeace being under surveillance as a security threat and labelled by our government as ‘extremists’.
Disappointed, but not surprised.
Once again, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government is attacking the environmental movement.
Last month the prime minister expressed his concern that “foreign money” was interfering with Canada’s prosperity. By “foreign money” he meant US charitable foundations contributing to Canadian environmental groups working to protect wilderness areas impacted by the oil industry.
Soon after, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver accused environmental groups of being foreign-funded puppets “hijack[ing] our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda.”
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http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/harper-government-is-trying-to-intimidate-env/blog/39105/
Bahrain Drops All Charges Against Canadian Naser Al-Raas, Who Claims He Was Tortured (OT)
Postmedia News Feb 16, 2012 – 11:39 AM ET | Last Updated: Feb 16, 2012 3:51 PM ET
Naser Al-Raas’s “nightmare” has finally ended after prosecutors in Bahrain dropped all charges against the Canadian man on Thursday.
The development was confirmed by Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department.
The news brought overwhelming relief to Al-Raas and his fiancee Zainab Ahmed, she said in an email to Postmedia News.
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