Monbiot-The Lamps Are Coming On All Over Europe
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The world is spinning at an unbelievable rate. Change is in the air. Neo Con control of our countries is being challenged throughout the world. The following…
January 2015
A call to arms. We’re going head first and at full speed down the slippery slope.
My blood is absolutely boiling. Some days, I have hope, today is not one of those days. Today I am sick to my stomach, getting sicker and sicker with each…
Disclosure produced in professional discipline producible despite Wagg
One might think P.(D.) v. Wagg, 2002 CanLII 23611 placed limits on production of disclosure in discipline matters. That would be wrong. Philip Services Corp. v. Deloitte & Touche, 2015…
Two Questions about the new Anti-Terror Act
Today saw the unveiling of the proposed new Act to cope with terrorist activities, as discussed in this CTV article. The draft bill may be found here. Two immediate questions…
Musical interlude
Fuel – Bittersweet
Gigaom: Net neutrality violators just got smacked down
Could Canada lead the way in the fight for net neutrality? Article by David Meyer for Gigaom The list of countries that find zero-rating to be a violation of net…
The 2015 ballot question explained, gratis
A light just went on in my tiny cranium. Whichever way things go, the Conservative narrative comes out a winner. Things going great? You can only credit Harper. Things really…
A Strategy of Ruptures: Ten Theses on the Greek Future
Aleksandr Vesnin, Proposal for a Monument to the Third International, 1921 I January 25th marks a historic turning point in recent Greek history. After five years of devastating austerity, a…
Feature film ‘Tru Love’ a delight
I want to give a quick shout-out for a feature film I saw last weekend: ‘Tru Love,’ by co-directors Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald, which is playing for a second…
The Annunciation
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New spy powers will undermine privacy of Canadians, and fails to address inadequate control and accountability of spy agencies
ProtectOurPrivacy403.png New measures to undermine privacy proposed just days after the government’s spy agency CSE revealed to be spying on private online activities of law-abiding Canadians on a massive scale…
Could "Rapidly Proliferating Threats" Derail the F-35?
(Remember, this is the plane that the Harper government wants to saddle our aircrews with for half-a-century, fifty years. But, I digress.)Trying to keep tabs on the development of Lockheed’s…
Will Green Party MP’s Have The Freedom To Vote and Speak Unlike The Whipped MP’s In The Established Parties?
Don Maroc This started out to be a paean to the Green Party of Canada. Not just as a very vocal agent for defending of the ecology, or Ecology of…
Three planks for a possible anti-austerity
What would anti-austerity in Canada look like? There are really two types of questions here. There are those of analysis: what has Canada’s austerity looked like, what makes it distinctive…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, January 30, 2015
Your news links for today: Canadian Government Continues to Expand State Powers While Leaving Privacy by the Wayside – EFF New anti-terror bill could put chill on freedom of speech…
CSIS to be given ‘power to disrupt,’ not arrest, in new anti-terror bill, CBC reports
I really hope this is one of those trial balloon thingies where the government puts out feelers, leaks ‘drafts’, spreads rumours about something far worse than they actually intend. Because…