It is bitterly ironic that KPMG – the private consulting firm that helps governments wipe out thousands of important jobs that make our communities work well – is itself regarded as one of the very best employers in the country.Injured workers and their support groups in Ontario are outraged by
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A Different Point of View....: New Latin American/Caribbean alliance aims to further reduce Gringo Power
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with Argentina’s President CristinaKirchner at the CELAC summit. Slowly but surely, the Gringos are being chased out of Latin America and the Caribbean!The 600-million people of the combined regions have taken another important step towards minimizing the influence of the United States, the International Monetary Fund
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: ‘Taking back the media’, effective campaigning required to empower Progressive Movement
Progressive groups in Canada need to become even more determined, better organized and prepared to develop new effective strategies if they are to stop the Harper Conservatives and their corporate allies from tearing apart what we have built up over the past 50 years. Not a day goes by during which
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: British study has the goods on corporate execs
This is one of those stories you will never read in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. The mainstream media and anyone associated with the business community refer to the heads of powerful corporations as, “captains of industry”, “mega-moguls”, and “bold, brilliant entrepreneurs.” But what are these so-called business “leaders” really
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Focus and determination required:A call to all progressive organizations to unite under one big umbrella
The mainstream media’s largely negative portrayal of the Occupy Movement in Canada illustrates once again the need for the creation of a large progressive cooperative movement in the country – a cooperative venture that would include hundreds of groups. “The Canadian media really dropped the ball on this one,” says
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Occupy Movement a valuable partner:Your chance to show support for creation of a united Canadian progressive movement
Adbusters magazine is at it again!The radical Vancouver-based periodical that launched the Occupy Wall Street Movement wants people to boycott shopping on November 25 and 26 – the days when Americans and many Canadians traditionally rush to stores to stand in lengthy line-ups to grab Christmas season bargains.“Let’s take the
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: The ‘In-and-Out’ Scandal … Case should have proceeded against ‘Upstanding Citizens’
This is a story about illegal activities, deceit and lying involving an overzealous group of Canadians who seemed prepared to do just about anything to accomplish their mission – win a federal election. In their private lives, all have considerable achievements and are well respected citizens in their communities.Doug Finley
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Crisis in the encampments
Millions of Americans are as mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore!
In the largest action of defiance since the 2008 economic collapse, an estimated 650,000 angry citizens moved their bank accounts from corporate banks to local c…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
Millions of Americans are as mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore!In the largest action of defiance since the 2008 economic collapse, an estimated 650,000 angry citizens moved their bank accounts from corporate banks to local citizen…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Occupy Canada movement remains unscathed following phoney attack by MACLEAN’S
The right-wing Canadian media establishment unleashed one of its loudest barking dogs this week as Maclean’s Andrew Coyne tried to tear a strip off the Occupy Wall Street movement in Canada.
Coyne’s cover story acknowledged that anyone li…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Occupy Canada movement remains unscathed following phoney attack by MACLEAN’S
The right-wing Canadian media establishment unleashed one of its loudest barking dogs this week as MACLEAN’S Andrew Coyne tried to tear a strip off the Occupy Wall Street movement in Canada. Coyne’s cover story acknowledged that anyone living in th…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
– A.J. Liebling, American press critic 1904-1963
The economy of the Western world is in a shambles. However, it seems that mainstream Canadian journalists are f…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Journalists, community groups need to act to develop independent Canadian media
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Part 1 was published on October 18 entitled Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy. It is shocking that – in the 21st Century – we still have a system under w…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: $15-million gift to Nova Scotia university rewards donor with $6-million tax break
What could be wrong with Dalhousie University’s announcement that one of Nova Scotia’s leading industrialists is giving Dal’s School of Business $15-million? When you dig behind the headlines, there’s quite a lot wrong with it. Kenneth Ro…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
This is the first of a two-part series about how freedom of expression is threatened because corporate-owned media in Canada censor and manipulate the news. “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” &nb…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ gets our attention while 3-billion in the South sink deeper into poverty
It is next-to-impossible to comprehend the magnitude of world poverty. See if you can visualize the faces of three billion people, many of them hungry children, flashing past your face on a giant TV screen, one at a time. Imagine how long that would ta…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Globe and Mail’s RoB shocks by questioning our economic system
The Globe and Mail – the Canadian media’s strongest supporter of neoliberalism and uncontrolled capitalism – has published a news story that questions whether the economists, business owners and governments that dictate the economic policies of W…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Globe and Mail’s RoB shocks by questioning our economic system
The Globe and Mail—the Canadian media’s strongest supporter of neoliberalism and uncontrolled capitalism—published a news story today that questions whether the economists, business owners and governments that dictate the economic pol…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Wall Street occupation may grow this week
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a few hundred American freedom fighters who planned to occupy Wall Street. Police barricades prevented them from taking over the heart of the financial district, and a few of them got their butts kicked pretty good d…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Join the CoffeeParty.ca and fight for Canadian democracy
Outdated first-past-the-post electoral laws in Canada mean that a minority, anti-government, anti-Canadian group of neoliberals such as the Harper Conservatives are able to rule the country unchallenged with a popular vote of only 39 per cent.If the Co…
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