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Greg Perry: Harper’s Economic Distraction Plan
March 27, 2015
Cartoonist Greg Perry nails Stephen Harper’s election strategy. (Reproduced with the kind permission of Greg Perry.)
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Can’t tell the players without a program
March 17, 2015
Author and former NDP Federal Secretary Gerald Caplan comments on the incongruity of Canada getting involved in a multilayered sectarian war in the Middle East: March 13, 2015 Dear Mr. O’Malley, or may I call you Peter? Thank you for your letter and your highly perspicacious questions. You write: “Harper has now decided that Canada […]
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The disastrous privacy consequences of Bill C-51
March 6, 2015
University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist outlines the dangers to privacy Canadians face with the impending passage of Bill C-51 (Total Information Awareness”: The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Bill C-51, Michael Geist blog, 19 February 2015). In his post, Professor Geist lists three ways the new bill threatens the privacy of Canadians: First, the bill permits […]
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Saudi arms deal makes mockery of Canadian values
January 26, 2015
By Peggy Mason Embassy News, January 21, 2015 The Harper government has made defending Western values a centrepiece of its anti-terror rhetoric. But our actions both at home and abroad tell a different story. Since the 9/11 attacks, Western democracies, in the name of fighting terrorism, have enacted countless anti-democratic measures to curtail free speech, […]
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