Dear Mr. Stewart,
Just wanted to drop you a line to tell you how much we appreciate the nearly two decades you spent entertaining us, educating us, and causing us to do multiple spit-takes while eating our favourite late night snacks. You’ll be sorely missed by those of us in Canada when you leave The Daily Show later this year.
We understand that you don’t have any plans for your post-Daily Show life (other than some family dinners, which you’ve more than earned). Perhaps you’d consider leaving New York for a more laid back life in Canada? There are many reasons to migrate north of the border, so we’d recommend giving it some serious thought. Here’s why:
1. THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Sure, any Canadian television network would be thrilled to have you, but after 18.5 years on The...
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To: World Leaders in Paris
We are Canada’s Energy Citizens, a community of thousands of Canadians who support our country’s energy industry.
As you gather to discuss the world’s pressing climate challenge, we want you to know that we believe that environmental stewardship and a thriving energy industry are not mutually exclusive. We stand for the protection of both, and we urge you to do the same over the next few weeks.
As Canadians and as supporters of our country’s oil and natural gas industry, we share your concern about our planet’s climate challenge. Our industry developed the technology to get the oil out of the sand, and it will develop the technology to take carbon out of the barrel.
As a global energy leader, Canada is uniquely positioned to provide safe, secure and...
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Open letter: Prime Minister Trudeau, please don’t abandon vulnerable Canadians like me to euthanasia
Dear Prime Minister,
When I was a child my family placed me in a “home” for kids like me – I had disabilities because of cerebral palsy. Over the course of my six years stay I felt totally abandoned by my family. One question would often fill my thoughts, “does anyone really care?” In the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Carter, decriminalizing euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, I feel that same abandonment and again the question circles my mind after all these years – “does anyone really care?”
I have been abandoned by several key sectors of society - among these are, the Canadian Supreme Court, the Canadian Government, Canadian Law, the Canadian Medical Association, the Church in Canada and the Canadian Media.
You may ask why a sense of abandonment and this would...
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Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,
The Canadian Peace Initiative warmly congratulates you on the success of the recent election. We are delighted that, in your initial conversation with President Obama, you indicated your intent to end Canada’s combat mission against ISIL. Over the last ten years we have been very concerned by the move that Canada has taken, away from its traditional commitment to peacekeeping and peace diplomacy, to a belligerent role on the world stage.
There is currently no strategic focus for peace in government, and there has rarely been a greater urgency or a better window of opportunity to consider the creation of a Department of Peace in our country. This is one of the principle aims of the Canadian Peace Initiative. We see that Canada has an important role to play in...
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Dear Minister MacAulay,
On behalf of Food Secure Canada and its members, I congratulate you on your success in the recent federal election and your appointment as Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food. Food Secure Canada is a national membership-based alliance of organizations and individuals concerned with zero hunger, healthy and safe food, and sustainable food systems. Our membership spans from coast to coast to coast and includes farmers’ organizations; food banks; international non-profits; Indigenous leaders; institutional food providers; food businesses; community food centres; health, nutrition, youth and research organizations; and many others.
We are strongly encouraged by the Prime Minister’s inclusion of a national food policy in his mandate letter to you. This is...
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Dear Secretary Kerry and Minister McKenna,
We write to you representing aluminum producers in the United States and Canada. We are concerned about China’s state-planned and carbon intensive aluminum industry which has amassed considerable overproduction. This not only leads to a distortion of international trade impacting our entire value chain, but also undermines global efforts to decarbonize the economy.
Our respective industries have made consistent improvement in our production processes over the past two decades as measured by primary energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions per ton of product produced. We continue to search for solutions to ongoing challenges through technological progress, improvements in resource use and waste minimization, and increasing incentives for...
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Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,
Holy shit, dude. You did it.
That’s not the most respectful opening to a letter to Canada’s new head of government. I get that. But you have to realize how shocked so many of us still are at your historic win. You ousted a negative, mean-spirited right-wing government that had grown stale, distant, and cruel. And you did it without a negative campaign ad or cruel word of your own. You made so many of us believe that the version of the country that we thought might be dead could live again.
And, as Tumblr has pointed out, you’re inappropriately handsome for a politician. (#PMILF is a real thing, folks. A real thing.)
But as you swept to power on a message of real change, positive government, and a better social contract for working Canadians, one...
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Dear Hot Canadian Zumba Teacher,
You didn’t know she’d had a heart attack a thousand miles away in Iowa. You didn’t know that I had just returned from flying there, fatal lung disease and all, to see her in a cardboard casket and watch it slide, inch by inch, into the crematorium oven. You don’t even know my name. But you’ve seen me popping and dropping and locking it like a middle-aged moron to Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” at your class for over a year now, and you decided it was time I stepped into the spotlight. You were right.
Oh, Anne—I think that’s your name, though I generally refer to you as That Superhot, Badass Street Girl Zumba Teacher at My Gym—our bodies are such complex, frail mysteries, no? Granted, you probably haven’t considered it much, being twenty-something and...
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Dear Prime Minister:
Many Americans love Canada and the specific benefits that have come to our country from our northern neighbor’s many achievements (see Canada Firsts by Nader, Conacher and Milleron). Unfortunately, your latest proposed legislation—the new anti-terrorism act—is being described by leading Canadian civil liberties scholars as hazardous to Canadian democracy.
A central criticism was ably summarized in a February 2015 Globe and Mail editorial titled “Parliament Must Reject Harper’s Secret Policeman Bill,” to wit:
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper never tires of telling Canadians that we are at war with the Islamic State. Under the cloud of fear produced by his repeated hyperbole about the scope and nature of the threat, he now wants to turn our domestic spy agency...
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Dear Attorney General:
I am writing to you out of severe concern for recent action taken by your office in opposition to the equality rights of same-sex couples. On August 4, 2011, Counsel for Mr. Wayne Hincks was informed that you will be intervening in the case of Hincks v. Gallardo (Court File No.: FS-11-367046) to “oppose the issuance of a declaration that a civil partnership registered in the United Kingdom is a ‘marriage’ for the purpose of the Civil Marriage Act and that the parties to such a partnership are spouses within the meaning of the Divorce Act.”
As noted in my previous letter to you, dated May 11, 2011, the diverse models of relationship recognition now available in different countries to same-sex couples wishing to formalize their relationship have complicated the...
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