Jan 23 2014
| Before Edward Snowden made "NSA" and "mass surveillance" household terms, Aaron Swartz was speaking out against the National Security Agency's bulk collection programs.
Jan 21 2014
| The non-violent tactics first employed by Ghandi in South Africa have much to offer those who believe another world is possible, and has now become necessary.
Jan 20 2014
| The CBSA has long been engaged in beefing up a strategy to prevent asylum seekers from getting to Canada, a clear violation of international and domestic law.
Jan 17 2014
| The spread of surveillance has acquired the unstoppable aura of climate change. The amorphousness seems to overwhelm people and undermine their ability to fight back, or even flail in rage.
Jan 17 2014
| The present downturn of the Canadian dollar is a welcome, but overdue, reversal to a decade-long, pointless and destructive financial detour for our currency.
Jan 16 2014
| Social media has always had its share of noise to signal. But lately it feels like the social web has gotten markedly stupider, tackier and has had its bullshit detector smashed to atoms.
Jan 16 2014
| Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a forceful grassroots movement has grown to permanently decommission all of Japan's nuclear power plants.
Jan 15 2014
| Other companies and organizations that faced Canada Post's problems thrived, not by doubling down on their old mandates but by refocusing on a new purpose.
Jan 14 2014
| Building an ecologically sustainable economy requires overthrowing the marketing-driven economy, individually and through collective action.
Jan 13 2014
| Getting caught, throwing your friend under a bus, being repeatedly and publicly exposed as liars and cheats -- that's just the cost of doing business. But it shouldn't be the cost of doing government.
Jan 13 2014
| The Ivany commission on the new economy is due to report in a few weeks here in Nova Scotia, and in case they missed it, here's one last idea for their consideration: the Nova Scotia dollar.
Jan 10 2014
| The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is closing seven of its 11 libraries and dismantling their contents, not just books but maps and journals of rare quality.
Jan 10 2014
| Unwarranted surveillance is our new reality. The Canadian Security Establishment is the governmental entity conducting this type of spying, not on one Canadian in particular, but on all Canadians.
Jan 9 2014
| This week, more news emerged about the theft of classified government documents, leaked to the press, that revealed a massive, top-secret surveillance program.
Jan 8 2014
| Canada's politicians are fond of trumpeting that our economy has performed better than almost any other jurisdiction. But the numbers indicate that Canada's jobs performance has been ho-hum at best.
