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Failure of Praxis: Cyberbullying Bill C-273 in Context

April 26, 2012
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Share | Bookmark ContentsBILL C-273 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cyberbullying)     404 Food for Thought A sad reality. My concerns reflect, not a detraction from cybebullying as an important issue, but rather, a sense of justified alarm.  How sad is it to support a bill that speaks to reason, while fearing that the same bill, once passed, would also provide the government with the ammunition to further silence dissent and prevent citizens from openly and publicly engaging with public officials? How unsettling to acknowledge that those meant to represent us would actually apply the very same laws – aimed at protecting citizens – to protect the private rights of people who are...

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Canada and the Emergence of a New Global Coalition

April 23, 2012
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Canada and the Emergence of a New Global Coalition

Share | BookmarkContents404 Food for Thought:A German Pirate Party could bring a European coalition 404 Food for Thought: “Canadians use words like: Corrupt, Liars, Untrustworthy, & Criminal to describe Politicians. Yet we allow them to run our Country? #CDNPoli” ~ @Big_Guy_Ty …the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this world, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable,...

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Environment Gets the Austerity Treatment: Oil at Any Cost…

April 18, 2012
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Environment Gets the Austerity Treatment: Oil at Any Cost…

Share | BookmarkContents404 Food for Thought:Meet the ex-Bay Streeter leading Tory charge against oil-sands opponentsEnvironmentalists differ sharply on pipeline proposalEnvironment gets the austerity treatmentEnvironment will suffer most from Tory budgetCuts at Environment Canada mean fewer left to clean up oil-spill messU.S. company plans billion-dollar expansion of Trans Mountain pipelineClimate & Capitalism“Canada’s Oilsands Innovation Alliance” is a public relations gimmick.Feds warned not to ‘cheerlead’ for oilsands   404 Food for Thought: Without any shred of doubt, the Alberta Tar Sands are the world’s largest industrial, capital and energy project. Being the size of England, the Tar Sands are unfathomable in scope in terms of enormity of the devastation currently taking place. It would be logical to assume that...

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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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The Death of Human Rights and Democracy

April 12, 2012
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The Death of Human Rights and Democracy

Share | BookmarkContents404 Food for Thought:Who They Were:What Happened:Stephen Harper’s homegrown human rights problemParliament shines light on agency’s tribulationsPrime Minister Harper muzzles diplomats and foreign agenciesA widow’s long wait for justiceTories shutter troubled Rights and Democracy agencyDocuments show Foreign Affairs officials knew of troubles at Rights and Democracy   404 Food for Thought: All around Canada, flags should be set at half mast indefinitely. Rights and Democracy are officially dead. The Harper Government has unapologetically killed them and the much respected president of the organization meant to promote, advocate, and defend them. Rights and Democracy worked with individuals, organizations and governments in Canada and abroad to promote the human and democratic rights defined in the United Nations’...

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