Hypocrisy on Free Speech and “Protecting Freedom.”
On June 6th (the same night that the trans human rights Bill C-279 advanced to committee) Conservative MP for Westlock – St. Paul, Brian Storseth’s Private Member’s Bill C-304, An…
Canada
Google Exposes Harper Government’s Growing Internet Censorship Appetites
In a report released late Sunday, Google tells us Canada has joined the ranks of countries aggressively stepping up efforts to censor online political dissent through “censorship requests” to the…
Video: Stop Cuts to Refugee Health Care in Canada
Winnipeg, June 18, 2012: Opposition to the Harper government’s plan to cut health care for refugees is gaining momentum across Canada. Joining in a National Day of Action Against Refugee…
The War of 1812—a non-Canadian event
That Mr. Harper and his colleagues are all gung-ho about the War of 1812, and spending millions on commemorating it, is hardly surprising. Reactionaries seem to have a thing about…
English language sources still few, far between, and flawed
As I remain astounded by both the lack of English language coverage of the Quebec student movement and the erroneous and misguided quality of the English language reports that do…
English language sources still few, far between, and flawed
As I remain astounded by both the lack of English language coverage of the Quebec student movement and the erroneous and misguided quality of the English language reports that do…
English language sources still few, far between, and flawed
As I remain astounded by both the lack of English language coverage of the Quebec student movement and the erroneous and misguided quality of the English language reports that do…
English language sources still few, far between, and flawed
As I remain astounded by both the lack of English language coverage of the Quebec student movement and the erroneous and misguided quality of the English language reports that do…
Free Post-Secondary Education Makes Money
Free post-secondary education would increase incomes, and income taxes would not just recover the initial cost to government but would actually generate additional public revenue. This paper from the Canadian…
Harper’s Canada “Making Up Terror Identities”
In Stephen Harper’s Canada, we’re all potential terror threats. Until proven otherwise. So suggests a recent study by Queens University’s Jeffrey Monaghan and Kevin Walby, published in the journal Policing…
NDP Rise To 37%, Conservatives Drop To 30%
Since Tom Mulcair was chosen to lead the party back in March, the NDP has maintained a strong support across Canada, which has continued to grow. The opposite is true…
Nature’s Environment Is Man
Facing an unprecedented environmental crisis a world summit like no other was called. “We have to do something, we can’t let our environment just die.” A member of the Dirt…
Ideology Involves Action
Efficiency has no allegiances and your beliefs are meaningless if you do nothing about them. These are two messages for the federal Liberals in Canada and they come from Tea…
Arguments For Free Post-Secondary Education
1. Free post-secondary education is a student loan that the country takes out and gets more money back than it ever put in. The government will receive more money from…
Budget Bill C-38: Canadian MPs, Citizens, Tweet Their Frustrations
For an incredible 24 hours, Canadian opposition MPs held up the passage of Stephen Harper and the Conservative government’s draconian budget Bill C-38. They forced votes on more than 800…
Ottawa hush job: Parks Canada employees latest to be silenced
CBC reports that Parks Canada employees are being muzzled by the feds – not permitted to criticize the agency or the federal government. Employees have received letters of warning to…
Olivia Chow’s Budget Speech
http://www.oliviachow.ca/2012/06/budget-bill-read-olivias-speech/ The Conservatives are pushing their Trojan Horse budget bill through Parliament in a reckless manner. But worse than mocking our democracy is the devastating effect this bill will have…
What a lot of people think of Stephen Harper right now
This picture from the This Is Not My Government Facebook Page, is currently going viral on Facebook (at least). Considering the history of his Conservative government, and the current destruction…
Fixing Canada’s Democracy, Part 74 of 877
I spent 3 hours in the House of Commons from midnight to 3am this morning watching the contemptuous debauchery of the Conservative government squash democracy in ramming through Bill C-38.…