As noted yesterday, the Harper-led CRA attacks on charities inimical to the base continues apace, the latest ‘victim’ being Dying With Dignity Canada, which is having its charitable status ‘annulled.’ However, this time it appears that the bully’s strategy has backfired. As reported in The Star, Dying With Dignity Canada
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Politics and its Discontents: The Harper Attack On Charities Continues
Following a well-established pattern, the Harper regime has once again used the offices of Canada Revenue Agency to go after a charity that it deems ideologically inimical to its base. This time, it is Dying With Dignity Canada: The federal government is stripping Dying with Dignity Canada of its charitable
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harperian Hypocrisy
Keep spreading the word, brothers and sisters: H/t Michael Nabert Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Please Pass it On
… to anyone who you think might need a reminder: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Suspicious Deletions At CRA
While it may not qualify as a smoking gun, a series of text-message deletions at Canada Revenue Agency looks decidedly suspicious. Given what many see as the Agency’s Harper-directed war against non-profits that are critical of government policy, there is ample reason to see foul play in the move. Today’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Charities And Political Activities
I am not a lawyer, but I post the following information for those who are, and for those deeply offended by the Harper government’s ongoing attacks on non-profits that dare question the regime’s wisdom while giving a free ride to right-wing entities whose ideology matches that of our overlords. Here
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper Regimed Deservedly Mocked and Disdained In House
I often marvel at the ability of the Prime Minister and his minions to keep a straight face as they baldly lie to all of us. At least those lies came in for some much deserved mockery yesterday in the House of Commons: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Just A Reminder About The Regime Under Which We Chafe
In case you missed the story of yet another Harper-led CRA threat against charities that object to the regime’s policies of environmental despoliation, you can read about it here, here, or here. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: We All have To Stand Against This Blatant Reign Of Intimidation And Tyranny
Although I have written many posts on this topic, each new incident once again evokes in me a visceral reponse bordering upon hatred for this government. The Harper regime is back at it again, using the CRA to intimidate people who are critical of its policies or in any way
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A New Season Beckons, But Nothing Changes
Many people think of September as the real beginning of the new year: kids go off to school, summer transitions to fall, fall fashions appear in the stores, and new careers are embarked upon. Sadly, our political culture seems resistant to change. True, this year there are municipal elections pending
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Well-Said
Those Star letter-writers nail it yet again: Under Ottawa’s microscope, Insight Aug. 23 If it is not OK for charities to use the money sent to them for the intended purpose of trying to change government policies that threaten the well-being of Canadians and the future of the world, why
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s Reign Of Terror – A Closer Examination
While Stephen Harper’s attacks on charities have been followed here and elsewhere, the Star presents a good overview of how the offices of the CRA have been subverted by a vindictive regime that brooks no opposition to its neoliberal agenda. The article begins with the egregious case of CoDevelopment Canada,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Denial And Outrage
During my teaching career, it was occasionally my unpleasant task to confront a student with evidence of his or her cheating; most situations revolved around plagiarizing essays or having skipped a test. The student’s responses when confronted were invariably the same; indeed, they tended to parallel Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The New Logo For The Canada Revenue Agency?
CRA protests notwithstanding, it works for me. H/t iPolitics Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s Reign Of Terror – Part Six
The latest installment of this series illustrating the Harper regime’s subversion of the Canada Revenue Agency to punish nonprofits for opposing government policies also demonstrates its pathologically secretive nature. The following was recently reported in The Globe and Mail: Since Ottawa first started cracking down on political activities among charities
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s Reign Of Terror: Star Readers Respond
Stephen Harper’s attack on those charities that refuse to hew to the regime’s dogma and ideology is becoming increasingly recognized for what it is: the wanton, immoral, unethical and likely illegal actions of a martinet who will brook no opposing views. Lacking even a modicum of subtlety, his purpose is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s Reign Of Terror – Part Five
As in the previous installments, this post examines the Harper regime’s unrelenting attacks on nonprofits that in any way oppose or criticize its agenda. The latest target is CoDevelopment Canada (CoDev), whose website lists the following as its mission: CoDevelopment Canada is a B.C.-based NGO that works for social change
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Blinkered Worldview of Stephen Harper
Recently, I wrote a series of posts on Stephen Harper’s misuse of the Canadian Revenue Agency through the orchestration of audits on nonprofits that criticize his policies. For Dear Leader, life is uncomplicated: you are either with him or against him, and if you fall into the latter category and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: How To Stop Stephen Harper’s Use of The CRA As An Instrument Of Terror: The Beginnings Of A Plan
Lately I have been writing some posts on Stephen Harper’s reign of terror, his relentless attacks on charities that oppose his agenda. Groups as diverse as the United Church of Canada, Oxfam, and PEN Canada have fallen victim to this vindictive miscreant, undergoing audits thanks to the Prime Minister’s misuse
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s Reign of Terror – Part Four
Except, that is, in Harperland. The latest Orwellian edict to come down from the Harper-directed CRA, reported by The Winnipeg Free Press, is as follows: The Canada Revenue Agency has told a well-known charity that it can no longer try to prevent poverty around the world, it can only alleviate
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