OpenMedia.ca: Huffington Post: Bill C-13 would grant immunity to telecoms who...
It looks like the video we created with your support about the online spying bill C-13 has really been turning heads. Check out this piece about how Peter MacKay’s bill would grant immunity to...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Protect Our Privacy with our Letter to the Editor tool
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View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Ottawa Citizen: Stanford study reveals just how much of your...
We all know that the metadata spy agencies collect on us can be hugely revealing. Now this Stanford study underlines just how much of our private lives can be exposed through this government spying....
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Yves Smith notes that a short-sighted focus on returns for shareholders generally represents a poor allocation of resources even on the level of a single...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Sarah Ayres discusses the value of the social safety net as a matter of both social and economic policy: A significant body of evidence supports the view that,...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Laura Ryckewaert looks in more detail at the continued lack of any privacy protection in the Unfair Elections Act. And Murray Dobbin is hopeful that the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Michael Harris observes that the Cons’ vote suppression tactics match the worst abuses we’d expect from the Tea Party: Stephen Harper would make a good...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Andrew Jackson reviews Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, while Paul Mason offers a useful summary. And David Atkins applies its most...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how Canada’s telecommunication providers and government agencies are each showing next to no regard for the privacy of consumers – and how the Cons want to make matters worse by allowing for...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Tell Harper: Defend Online Privacy
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View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Bill C-13: Harper tries to turn Canada into a...
by: Obert Madondo | May 20, 2014 Call it the Harper Conservatives’ resurrection the Orwellian ghost of Vic Toews. Back in 2012, Canadians nuked the then public safety minister’s Bill C-30. The bill,...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. - David Graeber writes that unfettered capitalism will never tame itself, but will instead need to be countered by a sufficiently strong counter-movement...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Neil Irwin highlights the reality that top-heavy economic growth has done nothing to reduce poverty in the U.S. over the past 40 years: In Kennedy’s...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Why Has the Canadian Gvt Given Up on Protecting Our...
by: MICHAEL GEIST | June 4, 2014 In recent years, it has become fashionable to argue that Canadians no longer care about their privacy. Supporters of this position note that millions of people...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how Justin Trudeau seems to have taken up the cause of unaccountable executive power even from his third-party place in the House of Commons. For further reading…- For some of the background...
View ArticleLaw is Cool: Students Writing LSAT With Accommodation Will Not Have Law...
The non-profit organization Law School Admission Council (LSAC) based in the United States was penalized $7.7 million USD to compensate over 6000 students from the past 5 years for application to...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Harper’s Online Surveillance Bill C‐13 Reveals...
by: Obert Madondo | June 8, 2014 Canada’s privacy experts are gravely concerned about Bill C-13, the Conservatives’ Orwellian cybercrime bill, deceptively named “Protecting Canadians from Online Crime...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Buttonwood weighs in on the disproportionate influence of the ultra-rich when it comes to making policy choices which affect all of us: But the analysis...
View ArticleTHE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: Harper Government Rejects Supreme Court Privacy...
by: by: MICHAEL GEIST | June 17, 2014 Having had the benefit of a few days to consider the implications of the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Spencer, the Senate last night proceeded to ignore the...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: The End of Facebook at Politics, Re-Spun
Note how this looks a bit like the Death Star? Hello! Welcome to the post-Facebook Politics, Re-Spun website! You will not find a Like/Recommend button at all anymore. Anywhere. We’ve even stripped it...
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