Share | Bookmark ContentsRelevant Articles Toronto riding’s election result tossed by judge: Conservative MP Ted Opitz’s Etobicoke Centre win overturned; party ‘disappointed’ May 18 2012 | CBC “ …Under a court order, Wrzesnewskyj’s lawyers were able to examine the ballots at 10 polling divisions, as well as poll books and electors’ lists at Elections Canada’s office in Ottawa. The test to declare the election invalid, and trigger a byelection (after any appeals are exhausted), was a finding that more than 26 ballots, the losing margin, should not have been counted. Particularly outstanding is what went on in Polling Division 31, located in a church in Etobicoke. Eighty-six people voted by registration certificate on May 2,...
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Quebec: Bill 78
Share | BookmarkContentsBill 78: A real manifesto against the fundamental freedoms of all citizens QuebecersCanadian Association of University Teachers – Quebec special law violates student rights and civil libertiesRelevant ArticlesBill 78: A real manifesto against the fundamental freedoms of all citizens Quebecers May 18 2012 | CNW QUEBEC CITY, May 18, 2012 / CNW Telbec / – The Legal Clinic Juripop denounced both the spirit and the effects of Bill 78 which created a mechanism to criminalize the right to demonstrate and more freedom to violate the fundamental s protected by the Canadian and Quebec Charters of Rights and Freedoms, including by denying three guarantees of our free and democratic freedoms of expression, peaceful...
“This isn’t Canada right now”: Police officer says
Share | BookmarkBy Richard Fantin | Canadian Trends A new report has been released today slamming G20 police for “excessive force”. While damning, this report is a whitewash. It continues to play the “few bad apples” routine spewed after Bill Blair’s “vast criminal conspiracy” ended up being full of holes. This report makes ludicrous claims such as “the Toronto Police had trouble tracking the black bloc”, even though there is plenty of video evidence showing walls of riot police looking on while the “black bloc” destroyed property without interruptions with police screaming “disengage disengage” in the background. At the bottom of this post I will link a documentary of the G20 and you can decide for...
Context: Quebec Student Movement
Share | BookmarkContentsTen Points Everyone Should Know About the Quebec Student MovementFurther ReadingsTen Points Everyone Should Know About the Quebec Student Movement By: Andrew Gavin Marshall The student strikes in Quebec, which began in February and have lasted for three months, involving roughly 175,000 students in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province, have been subjected to a massive provincial and national media propaganda campaign to demonize and dismiss the students and their struggle. The following is a list of ten points that everyone should know about the student movement in Quebec to help place their struggle in its proper global context. 1. The issue is debt, not tuition 2. ...
Nick Hanauer: TED Talks
Share | Bookmark TED and inequality: The real story Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You BREAKING: You Know That TED Talk You Weren’t Supposed To See? Here It Is. Here’s The Most Embarrassing Part About TED Silencing That Report On Inequality Share | Bookmark