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Context: Quebec Student Movement

May 17, 2012
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Share | Bookmark ContentsTen 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.  ...

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Open Letter to Canadian Journalists

May 12, 2012
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Share | BookmarkDear journalists: Why don’t you actually start reporting on the money wasters? By Richard Fantin | Posted on Canadian Trends Saw this today, and it made me very very angry. From the article: The debate, however, has now moved well beyond a dispute over the price of education in Quebec. The larger question being posed is of what kind of society we want to be. While this existential problem is important for a people to grapple with, it will not be solved by our citizens taking to the streets. The real answer can be found in Quebec’s finances. As Mr. Bouchard stated last week, there is a limit to the burden taxpayers...

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#OpProRogue Part XIII

May 3, 2012
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Share | BookmarkContentsBreaking NewsBudget . Austerity . Cuts Censorship & Control of Public InformationThe Case of F-35 JetsOther News & Readings Breaking News Cabinet ministers say no to meeting with UN food envoy  MAY 4 2012 | Ottawa Citizen Several federal ministers have declined requests to meet with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food as part of his first-ever probe of a developed country. Olivier De Schutter’s mission brings him to Ottawa next week as part of an 11-day tour that includes visits to aboriginal communities in Manitoba and Alberta. He had requested meetings with the ministers of health, aboriginal affairs, agriculture, fisheries, foreign affairs or international co-operation, as well as...

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Draft: A Free Irresponsible Press. Harvard Law School Prof Yochai Benkler, why battle over WikiLeaks is so vital

April 12, 2012
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Share | BookmarkThe freedom that the Internet provides to networked individuals and cooperative associations to speak their minds and organize around their causes has been deployed over the past decade to  develop new networked models of the fourth estate. These models circumvent the social and organizational frameworks of traditional media, which played a large role in framing the balance  between freedom and responsibility of the press. WORKING DRAFT: Benkler, A Free Irresponsible Press, forthcoming Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review A FREE IRRESPONSIBLE PRESS: WIKILEAKS AND THE BATTLE OVER THE SOUL OF THE NETWORKED FOURTH ESTATE By Yochai Benkler Share | Bookmark

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Open letter to Environment Minister Peter Kent

April 12, 2012
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Share | Bookmark Open letter to Environment Minister Peter Kent published in Embassy Magazine (April 4, 2012) | Letter posted on Scribd Dear Minister Kent: While we can accept that some members of the Conservative cabinet might not agree with our stand on the muzzling of government scientists, we are shocked that you with your long and distinguished career in journalism would not just appreciate why we have taken astand, but vigorously support it. Would the Peter Kent who worked at CBC Television, CTV,Global, NBC and the Christian Science Monitor’s television newscasts have ever dismissively told an interviewer that when reporters fromCanada West Media, the Globe and Mail, The CBC, Le Devoir complained that they couldn’t speak...

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