Canada unites in protest to stop “insidious, deceitful, and totalitarian”...
Canadians from coast to coast are holding rallies in a bid to stop Bill C-51 calling Conservative government’s anti-terror legislation “insidious, deceitful, and totalitarian” The National Convergence...
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John Bennett, Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada First, I’d like to acknowledge the terrible incidents that took place last fall here in Ottawa and in Quebec and share our deepest sympathies for...
View ArticleRocco Galati vows to challenge C-51 in court, urges Canadians to vote against...
Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati vowed to challenge Harper government’s anti-terror legislation in court and called on Canadians to vote against candidates of any party supporting Bill C-51 at the...
View ArticleBill C-51 incompatible with Canada’s commitment to constitutional supremacy...
Sukanya Pillay, General Counsel and Executive Director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association Bill C-51 creates new laws and amends existing laws to create new powers and crimes. One of these new laws...
View ArticleWarm climate in Europe may lead to abrupt cooling as Gulf Stream is disrupted
A warm climate in northern Europe can be hit by a sudden cooling leading to an Ice Age associated with an interruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation and the Gulf Stream, a new record of past...
View ArticleBill C-51 and the Conservative culture of contempt
By H. Grant Timms The debate on Bill C-51, distilled into its simplest form, seems to go something like this. On one side the government and its supporters, borrowing from the rhetoric of the American...
View ArticleEmployers facing criminal and labour law charges involving temporary foreign...
Three Alberta businesses whose owners are facing criminal charges for human trafficking and labour law charges in a case involving seven temporary foreign workers have yet to be put on the federal...
View ArticleA rose, a class, a party by any other name
A View from the Bottom by H. Grant Timms Beginning in the 1990s a great number of political commentators extolled the great democratising potential of the Internet, took note of the blurring of ‘left’...
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Metro newspaper handout workers left unpaid as Thinkbox National goes bankrupt
Bounced checks and application denials have left Metro newspaper handout workers without due compensation and without any proper recourse to claim for the unpaid wages. At the centre of this is...
View ArticleHarper wants to control Canada by keeping Canadians ignorant and afraid,...
Stephen Harper is muzzling scientists and bringing legislation like Bill C-51 because the Prime Minister wants to keep Canadians ignorant and afraid, according to Simon Fraser University Professor...
View ArticleCarbon Free by 2100: Stephen Harper’s Non-Committal Commitment
By H. Grant Timms Most governments are exercises in contradiction between electoral platforms and performance, and often they try to convince people that the apparent contradiction isn’t one. Take, for...
View ArticleEnforcing inequality: Harper Government creates two classes of Canadians
By Faizan Butt The federal government’s recent legislation, dubbed Bill-C24 came in to effect this week. The new law is already creating waves among legal scholars and civil rights proponents. But, the...
View ArticleHarper government dismantling democracy, rights coalition says
Abuse of parliamentary rules, the intimidation of public servants, the defunding and intimidation of organizations that hold views at odds with the government, and muzzling independent watchdogs are...
View ArticleBill C-24 and the compromise of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
By H.Grant Timms Already, and across a broad spectrum of political opinion, there has been condemnation for bill C-24, the Harper government’s “Strengthening of Canadian Citizenship Act”, which came...
View ArticleBusinesses free to hire and exploit unpaid interns under Bill C-59, critics say
By Christopher Pearson Bill C-59 on implementing provisions of the government’s budget is causing alarm among advocates for interns’ rights, who claim that the new bill will make it easier for...
View ArticleHarper ignores TRC report in National Aboriginal Day message, NDP promises...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper failed to mention the recently released Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report in his message marking National Aboriginal Day today, while the opposition New...
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TFW pilots hired at Canadian Forces Base in Ontario, records show
Temporary foreign workers were recruited to work as pilots at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, records obtained from Service Canada show. The Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare Centre...
View ArticleTruth, reconciliation, and the government’s assimilationist ethic
By H. Grant Timms Though the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report dominated the news the week of its release, typical of today’s 24 hour (or less) cycle, the talk it generated...
View ArticlePeter MacKay’s exit: a matter of justice and relevance
By H. Grant Timms Peter MacKay’s announcement late last month that he would not run for re-election in the fall was sudden and unexpected – he had, after all, only just filed his nomination papers. Mr....
View ArticleOpen letter to Justin Trudeau: Your Conservative light policies feed voter...
By Derek Birch Young people don’t vote. Why don’t they vote? No one under the age of 35 even remembers a time when politicians actually did the will of the people. For anyone under 35 this means an...
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