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...
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. ...
Out-of-Touch-With-Reality Politics Failing to Serve the People
Share | BookmarkContentsLiving on Welfare Tests Politician’s EnduranceHow can we, as a society, solve problems such as poverty and hunger when our government officials deny their existence? Ahead of De Schutter’s presentation, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney lashed out at De Schutter and suggested he wasted both his time and the UN’s resources by spending 11 days here. “It would be our hope that the contributions we make to the United Nations are used to help starving people in developing countries, not to give lectures to wealthy and developed countries like Canada and I think this is a discredit to the United Nations,” Kenney said, noting that Canada sends billion of dollars in food aid...
404 Diary: On Quebec’s Student Protests
Share | BookmarkContents404 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 is...