[Ed. - Having not found the Ukrainian president's reply to Dmitry Medvedev in English to share with my network, I translated it myself. I have also posted a translation of Medvedev's original message here on East of Main - Andriy]
I cannot disagree that there are serious problems with our countries’ relations, but find it surprising [...]
Full text transcript of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s video blog address re: his letter to Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko:
[From Editor - having not found a translation of this online, I went ahead and did it myself. It's not perfect, but I think it captures the tone and gist of the address. The full text translation [...]
UPDATE January 13, 2009
In 17 days 919 Palestinians killed by Israel including 284 children & 100 women, 4260 injured
UPDATE January 7, 2009:
CEASEFIRE talks are finally being considered by Israel - there is hope but offensive on Gaza still in full-force [BBC]
Estimated Death toll: 683 Palestinians since Israel offensive began (December 27, 2008). 7 Israeli soldiers [...]
www.Canadiansforobama.ca spokesmen, Dr. Clement Apaak and Ajay Puri, discussed their excitement and also other progressive Canadians joy of having Barack Obama choosing Canada to be his first formal visiting country. The date hasn’t been set yet for the visit to Ottawa, but when Mr Harper and President elect Obama do meet, expectations are high for [...]
Israel’s continuous attacks on Gaza has sparked worldwide anti-war demonstrations, with tens of thousands of people joining rallies in the across Canada, US, Europe, Middle East.
BBC has posted a photo-pedium worth reviewing.
Vancouver - The movement tonight was tremendous; more than 1500 people came out to Canada Place in trying to build up the grassroots and unite the centre, centre-left and left spectrum.
Video: Vancouverites Rally for a Progressive Coalition (courtesy of Evan Leeson)
Photo courtesy of Ric Ernst
Candles for Progress
Vancouver: This Thursday December 4, 2008, Vancouverites will be part of the thousands of Canadians who are lighting a candle to show their support for a Liberal-NDP coalition government.
“Tomorrow evening we’ll be gathering rallying outside Canada Place from 5 to 6pm then heading into the rally being held by numerous organizers [...]
East of Main recently posted a story on how a progressive coalition is needed at the Federal level here in Canada. I can’t emphasize this enough so I thought of posting on this topic again - but from the angle of how and when to do it. After reading Scott Reid’s piece in the Globe [...]
A great grassroots movement has just arose which started in Victoria earlier this Fall. I got to speak with one of the co-founders, Kyle Artelle, and it was refreshing to hear what he has to say.
Their mission is simple: to unite progressive people and Federal parties together so to topple the unpopular Conservative government. This [...]
MAYOR
(Top 6 of 15 candidates)
GRAPH: Vancouver Mayoral Race 2008 |PDF
RANK
Candidate Name
Party
Vote Total
Proportion
1
ROBERTSON, Gregor
VV
67598
54.4%
2
LADNER, Peter
NPA
48794
39.3%
3
KRAWCZYK, Betty
WLP
1346
1.1%
4
EMERY, Marc
1119
0.9%
5
YEE, Scott
942
0.8%
6
BRITTEN, Patrick C.
NGP
695
0.6%
Gregor won by 18,804 votes (or 15.1%), which is a sizable majority over Peter Ladner. Interestingly, for Betty Krawczyk of the Work Less Party - she can tell her voters and fans that she [...]