An open Internet is free from government surveillance. Using the Internet to spy on people degrades our freedom and weakens our democracy. Tell that to your Senators at StopC51.ca Article…
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Photo by Paul Sparkes Neoliberal economic policies, with their emphasis on market-led development and individual rationality, have been exposed as bankrupt not only by the global economic crisis but also…
Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Climate change is going on. Extreme weather conditions, storms, floodings, landslides, droughts and ice melting are reported ever more regularly from many parts…
Separatist commander Arseny Pavlov • Photo by Andrew Butko While in Moscow three weeks ago, following a media tour to Donetsk, eastern Ukraine in which I participated, I had the…
Rea v. Wildeboer, 2015 ONCA 373: I accept that the derivative action and the oppression remedy are not mutually exclusive. Cases like Malata and Jabalee make it clear that there…
Ever the uncritical and obsequious friend of Israel and wooer of domestic Jewish votes, the Harper regime has once again shamed and blackened Canada’s international reputation: Israel has expressed its…
Drinking water for more than 60 per cent of Manitoba’s population will be put at risk by TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline, according to a report released Monday by the…
In the good old days, Canada’s spy agencies were not supposed to spy on Canadians. Government departments are also supposed to benefit from their research into vulnerabilities in computer systems,…
The campaign is unfair, will the result be a fraud? A year ago, the 2013 annual report and audited financial statements were in public hands. The independent auditor’s report was…
Earlier today, the Telecommunications Transparency Project announced the release of The Governance of Telecommunications Surveillance: How Opaque and Unaccountable Practices and Policies Threaten Canadians. This landmark report found that rampant…
The front page headline is about a commentary that has been submitted to the newspaper, but not yet published. It will, of course, be published, perhaps tomorrow. So why is…
By Elise Hategan, who knows what she is talking about: “…And then comes this – news that a hateful, xenophobic rag called Your Ward News, put together by a network…
Following picture depicts Harper quite well. In the mirror he thinks he looks like a macho man but the reality is quite different.
Over 60 groups from across Canada recently asked the National Energy Board to suspend its biased review of TransCanada’s Energy East tar sands pipeline. The post NEB’s Energy East pipeline…
With the new round of polls in the hopper and the NDP surge from their surprising provincial victory in Alberta quantified, if it didn’t before, it looks like the national…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – LOLGOP discusses the important role unions play in ensuring widespread freedom and prosperity – and why they’re thus target number one for…
Hoo boy do I ever have a bit of news on Canada’s most ridiculous Ombudsman!
John Klein: Mike got to stay at the Surf Motel, one last first time. http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=574288&binId=1.1180928&playlistPageNum=1&fb_ref=Default Originally posted on The Big Diseasey: Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are. My…
