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404 Diary: On Quebec’s Student Protests

May 14, 2012
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Share | Bookmark Contents404 Diary: May 14 2012Isn’t an Unlimited General Strike a disproportionate means of action?  Online chatQuébécois authentic testimony of a student participating in the demonstration yesterday in Victoriaville, Saturday, May 5The FireFighters Association of Montréal supports the student strike404 Diary: May 14 2012 How does one start making sense of what is happening globally? Demonstrations. Protests. Occupations. Strikes. Police. Dissent. Violence. Mainstream media. Citizen media. Livestreams… Where does one begin? If we begin with the mainstream media news, the narrative is often carefully constructed to “tell a story.” Often this narrative is characterized by the identification of different, most often, conflicting sides: protesters vs. police, labour vs. management. This media framework...

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404 Letter: On Canada and Honour

April 12, 2012
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Share | Bookmark By Jerry Munro Canada, probably like most/all countries, has a complex and contradictory history and ongoing reality. But beyond our abyssmal treatment of the original “Native” peoples, which is a huge stain on our national “honour”, if you will, and other issues of inequality which we have within ourselves as a country (of a numbe of nations, in my view), and there are many, we have one singular, huge, long standing, development hampering and seriously dishonourable one that seriously belittles our national character, our view of ourselves, and in the eyes of others. This, in my view, though we have our own MacKenzie-Papineau Rebellion , War of 1812 early history, and...

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404 Power Profile: André Desmarais

April 10, 2012
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Share | BookmarkAndré Desmarais Connected to 93 board members in 16 different organizations across 24 different industries. See Connections here Married to France Chrétien Desmarais, the daughter of former Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien   In the fall of 1980, he became press secretary to Jean Chrétien, then justice minister in the Trudeau government. The following spring, he married the boss’s daughter, France, who was fresh out of the University of Ottawa’s law school. The couple now have four children. When their maternal grandfather was PM, two of the boys, Olivier and Philippe, sometimes accompanied him on official visits abroad, meeting heads of state. “Andy is obsessed with politics, says a family friend. Because of his marriage, he’s a partisan. But...

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IngSoc

April 2, 2012
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Share | BookmarkContentsFurther Readings The Information War is nearly over. The final campaigns are being drafted and launched. We find ourselves poised on a virtual Battle of Stalingrad in cyberspace. The intensive Luftwaffe bombing on our civil liberties come in the various forms. The Precision Guided Bombs: Sopa, TPPA, IAPP, The “Anti-Spam” Act, The “Open Act”. The Weapons of Mass Destruction: ACTA, PIPA, Bills C-11, C-30, C-51. The Nukes: USA Patriot Act, Civil Contingencies Act, NDAA, Executive Order -National Defense Resources Preparedness, Bill C-29 (An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act)… there are others, most of which were drafted less than two years ago. Relentless, isn’t it? Ultimately, all...

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Budget 2012: Government Spendings on Crime, Military, Oil, Marketing

March 28, 2012
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Share | Bookmark   It is now clear that the Federal Budget to be introduced tomorrow in the House of Commons will lack details on the spending cuts this government is so eager to implement. Of course, there has been no public discussion on how the Harper Conservative Government has lead Canada into a deficit nor examination of the patterns of wasteful and undemocratic spendings.  The Harper government’s spending patterns have already shown to be ideological. Allocation of Canadians’ tax funds have not only created targeted poverty but have also shown that austerity, no longer a sound economic policy, is an ideological strategy to advocate for neoliberal policies that undermine the interests of Canadians...

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