We’re presently bombarded with slick advertising from two senior levels of government. As well, industry is celebrating tar sands as great for the environment and, of course, producers tell us that natural […]
Time to reform government advertising
Harper’s deputy attacks free speech
The following is from the blog The Sixth Estate, a place that is on my regular reading list, although it’s not on Margaret Wente’s list. The following is the official opinion of the Conservative […]
New footwear makes everything seem right
Stories that will leave you wondering about the direction Canada is taking under Stephen Harper. This is not the Canada we once knew… nor the one we voted for. Unraveling File # […]
Obama now leader of the not-free world
Chris Hedges writes: “The NDAA implodes our most cherished constitutional protections. It permits the military to function on U.S. soil as a civilian law enforcement agency. It authorizes the executive branch to […]
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press – all in good time
July 30, 2011, from Associated Press by commondreams.org: “Thirty-six years after Richard Nixon testified to the Watergate grand jury, a federal judge yesterday ordered the first public release of the transcript about […]
Dangerous journalist
Dr. Michael Byers is an academic with a broad vision of the world and what it should be. He has expertise in international law and a particular interest in the Arctic. Byers holds […]
David Eby says . . .
Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association writes a blog that should be read by every person who respects justice. Go there to read the rest of this entry from January […]
Apologies come after the Games
Lately, I’ve been thinking of Network, a great Sidney Lumet movie written by Paddy Chayevsky. It makes we wonder. Is it, finally, time to be angry? Will even that question result in […]
Freedom of expression, perhaps
For this post, I planned to review the Supreme Court of Canada decision in the BC case regarding advertising that discomforted our political establishment. In it, the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority appealed […]
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