32 stories.
By Mark D'Arcy , New Brunswick Energy East campaigner. This is an open letter to the National Energy Board to ask to extend their 30-day application period for the proposed Energy East project by another 30 days. Troubling information has…
By Anonymous Author “Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested,” reads the opening line of Franz Kafka’s The Trial. Are many Canadians about to share Josef K’s fate if…
by Anonymous Author When the first images emerged of mangled rail cars in the backdrop of flames roaring through downtown Lac-Mégantic, many suspected that they were witnessing the gruesome aftermath of a terrorist attack. Investigations by Transport Safety Board of…
By National Association of Japanese Canadians The National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) joins with other concerned Canadians in calling for the Government of Canada to withdraw the Anti-Terrorism Act Bill C-51. We believe that Bill C-51 threatens Canadian civil…
By John Feldsted Political Consultant & Strategist Winnipeg, Manitoba I have some serious concerns over C-51. It looks to me like this was thrown together hurriedly and some sections are very poorly worded. I have listed some of my concerns…
By Michael Nabert It is becoming increasingly clear that you can believe in government accountability in Canada, or you can support the Harper government, but you cannot do both, any more than you can support not being on fire and…
Dear Members of Parliament, Please accept this collective open letter as an expression of the signatories’ deep concern that Bill C-51 (which the government is calling the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015) is a dangerous piece of legislation in terms of its…
By Michael Nabert The Harper government's so called "Fair Election Act" is one of the most egregious attacks on the very idea of fair elections that Canada has ever seen, but their strategy to game the system and rewrite the…
By Peter Ormond We all know how taxes are supposed to work. Government collects money in taxes, and then spends that money on things the nation needs, like roads and hospitals. So what happens when a government decides that all…
On February 14, 2008, Canada and the U.S. signed an agreement paving the way for the troops from either nation to be deployed across the border on the other nation’s soil during emergencies, but the Harper government did not want…