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“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” Stephen Harper while Leader of the Opposition as quoted in the Globe and Mail Feb 26/12 Contrast the above statement by Stephen Harper with this opinion of the

The Conservatives moved into full-blown attack mode on the Robocon front in today’s QP, completely abandoning the more contrite tone they struck earlier in the week. Turmel began by asking which of Dean Del Mastro’s competing assertions was correct – whether the Conservatives were or were not conducting an internal

This is the kind of activism I really love. Grassroots students from Vancouver, supporting teachers against the Con-style BC Liberal government heavy-handed tactics, are planning a ‘strike’ of their own to support the underpaid, underappreciated teachers of this province. They’re signing up on Facebook for a protest at the Vancouver Art Gallery

I received this from my good friends at Community Based Research in Vancouver  — Community Based Research Centre (CBRC), home of the Sex Now Survey and the BC Gay Men’s Health Summit, has been asked by Canadian Blood Services (CBS) to circulate a short survey about blood donations and gay men. Here is an opportunity

That is technically the accurate terminology. Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote. It is distinguished from political campaigning in that campaigning attempts to change likely voting behavior by changing the opinions of potential

So many people seem to be in a huff about the automated phone calls that were made during the last federal election in order to confuse voters as to the location of their polling station, thereby making it more difficult to cast their vote. Scandalous. How could the Tories stoop