James O'Grady
I am the founder of Unpublished Media Inc., a company I started in 2012. I am also a communications professional and community activist, living in Nepean, Ontario. And, I am a hockey goaltender, political hack and most importantly, an advocate for grassroots, participatory democracy at all levels of government.
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The failure of the Meech Lake Accord, an initiative created and lead by former...
It’s time for Russia’s neighbours to join the fight to remove Russian influence from their countries
Now that Ukraine’s military has successfully breached Russia’s border, an act that caught the over...
With China’s mock invasion of Taiwan over the last three days it’s become very clear that...
I was really disappointed to hear again that Germany is refusing to help create a no-fly zone over...
Despite all the unnecessary deaths on both sides of the conflict, approaching 1 million dead and...
Comments by James O'Grady
There’s a lot of information on Unpublished.ca about the WAR the community fought against Taggart back in the day. See: https://unpublished.ca/users/lucie-r%C3%A9gimbald
It may have the approvals but that was a time when Rick Chiarelli and Ms. Taggart held hands around the Committee table (I witnessed it personally) and no one said or did anything. I could list other examples of blatant corruption around the decision making process, the pressure exuded by local liberal MPs, etc., but you get the idea.
It was a bad decision then bc it’s not geologically suited for it, so the city buying it now is a terrible idea, IMO. More gifts their developer donors.
I don’t usually agree with Harper on much, but I am glad to see that he’s stepping up for Canada now. Given everything he did to divide Canadians in the first place, It’s helpful for him to clarify where the line is for conservatives.
We need to hold our nerve and keep saying no until he's removed from power. Which will be soon if another person is murdered by ICE in Minneapolis.
You can tell by Trump’s response today, calling Carney out by name and saying we “should be thankful, but we’re not”, shows that Carney struck a nerve. Trump backed down from his ridiculous threat to take Geeenland because Carney called a spade, a spade in his speech yesterday.
“We’re moving on because you’re being a dick” is what I heard. It looks like the message was received. Now let’s get down to biz and sign a trade deal…