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The Occupy protests were a global encampment of public spaces in protest of societal inequalities that undermine democracy and freedom. Because the movement is representative of many different communities, many different focuses exist around the world; however, the unifying concerns deal with...

During the last session of Parliament before the 2010 federal election ended it, Bill C-50, C-51, and C-52[i] were introduced to empower law enforcement agencies to better police online activities. The Bills and similar ones tabled in the past have been dubbed “lawful access” – the term used for...

In order to compete with the new wireless providers of Wind Mobile, Mobilicity, and Public Mobile, Rogers launched its third wireless network under Chatr in 2010. Upon Rogers’ release of Chatr, it began an advertisement campaign to distinguish it from the others by claiming “fewer...

The Canadian political atmosphere consists of five main parties: the Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Block Quebecois, and the Green Party. Of these, one represents the central-to-right political spectrum. There were two parties – The Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of...

The Bloc Quebecois has called for the Sikh (pronounced seek) kirpan to be banned from Parliament. This stems from security officers’ decision to deny entry into the Quebec legislature to four Sikhs because they were wearing kirpans. The kirpan is a sword or dagger carried by baptized...

YouTube - Election Watch If Canadians are to be asked to go to the polls, what will be the issues? Economy and taxes (corporate tax cuts), environment and climate change, Afghanistan, education, …? What is more effective, not necessarily for you personally, but for the masses, attack ads or...

A video on Harper Government's anti-drug strategy and its unfounded stance. Note the section in the video in which Tony Clement is referenced as saying the only thing that research had shown was that more research was needed regarding the usefulness of the safe-injection site InSite in...

Below is a video on the Stephen Harper Government's anti-drug strategy and its unfounded stance. Note the section in the video in which Tony Clement is referenced as saying the only thing that research had shown was that more research was needed regarding the usefulness of the safe-injection...

Political debate is about polarization, about conforming those already leaning to one side to an idea presented by the side they already lean toward, and if careful attention and focus is placed on the debate itself, one quickly sees it is frivolous, though it's, for the most part, based in...

The Canadian Sun News TV channel has been dubbed Fox News North and it is to have debuted on January 1, 2011. The station has been designed to duplicate the Fox News 24-hour news channel format of news/opinion programming, which is a type of programming that has never been done before in Canada...