Category Archives: Front Page
It is not safe to be an indigenous woman or girl in Canada right now
By Leah Gazan Member of Wood Mountain Lakota Nation, and Faculty of Education, University of Winnipeg It has been 44 years since the brutal murder of Helen Betty Osborne, in which the Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission concluded that racism, sexism,
We can’t arrest our way out of terrorism
By Daniel Hiebert, Co-Director, University of British Columbia, The Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS) Ten years ago, I was approached by members of Canada’s security establishment to answer a question. They asked me whether I
Bill C-51: Why it is dangerous and what you can do to fight it
By an independent group of concerned Canadians (and residents of Canada) “Canadians should not be willing to accept such an obvious threat to their basic liberties.” — The Globe and Mail On January 30th, 2015 the Harper Government tabled Bill
Former CSIS-funded Heritage Front terrorist group member warns against Bill C-51
By Elisa Hategan My name is Elisa Hategan and I’m a Canadian writer and freelance journalist. Twenty years ago, I was a teenage member of an Ontario-based domestic terrorist group called the Heritage Front. They were a radical white supremacist,
How Air Canada broke the law, laid off thousands of workers, and outsourced operations to Israeli military drone maker
Air Canada had a very simple plan to increase its profits. Step 1: Spin the airline’s heavy maintenance unit off as a separate entity Step 2: Starve the spin-off of work and bankrupt it gradually Step 3: Outsource the operations
Tory FB post asking public support for Bill C-51 upsets Alberta PC MLA
Alberta Progress Conservative MLA Thomas Lukaszuk expressed his outrage at a post on the Conservative Party Facebook page made to drum up support for the Harper government’s anti-terrorism bill that shows a man wearing an Arab headdress threatening a terrorist
Keep Them In The Dark: TransCanada fails to inform residents who signed up for notices.
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 been
C-51 Shades of May: How one word made all Canadians guilty of terrorism
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
Bill C-51 to Lac-Mégantic: How Harper keeps Canadians (un)safe
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
Japanese Canadians fear a repeat of internment camps under Bill C-51
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