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Stephen Harper’s 2015 election plan: stacking the deck in his favour
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
Tax cuts for the rich, budget cuts for the poor
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
Seven years ago today, Harper government tried to keep secret Canada-U.S. deal allowing each other’s troops to be deployed in civil emergencies
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
Looking up Peter MacKay’s “terrorism”
By J. Miller “Look it up!” That was Justice Minister Peter MacKay’s curt response to reporters who asked him how terrorism will be defined in Bill C-51, the anti-terror bill the government is trying to ram through Parliament. This was same
Threats to National Security: Activist vs Resource Company
By William Ray National Security. Even though we have heard the word bandied about for 60 years what does National Security substantively mean and what would actually be a threat to it? The accepted definitions of National Security all encompass
