I’m way out of touch with Canadian politics, but am happy to see Canada has got a Green MP which should (amongst other things) allow the Green Party into election debates (the elections are likely to be called next week).
He was previously an independent (Parliament is in recess) but will not be challenged by the Liberal party (I’m not at all acquainted with the vagaries of Canadian Electoral convention, so don’t know if you need to have more than one MP to count as a party, or whatnot) so it will be interesting to see if he is returned in the next General Election (likely to be in October).
More from the CBC.
Thanks to Noel at The Green Room
And in other news:
Blood and Honour board hacked, and made available for all to download. News and downloads: here.
Left-Wing Hackers Break into Neo-Nazi Server
Left-wing computer hackers have reportedly broken into the secure server of one of the world’s largest neo-Nazi groups, copying more than 30,000 pieces of data.
Members of the anti-fascist left-wing group Daten-Antifa on Friday, Aug. 29, managed to break the access codes and enter the databank of Blood and Honour (B&H), a neo-Nazi organization that has been banned in Germany since 2000.
“Now some people in the far-right extremist scene are going to get very nervous, including activists from the NPD (Germany’s far-right National Democratic Party),” Guenther Hoffmann from the Center for Democratic Culture told the Frankfurter Rundschau on Saturday.
According to Daten-Antifa, 31,948 pieces of data were collected clandestinely from the B&H server, including 500 from Germany. This indicated that the international network is also used by members of the German neo-Nazi scene, which authorities had previously suspected.