rabble.ca series - Harper's Assault on Democracy
Apr 23 2013
| by Adrienne Silnicki |
The Health Council of Canada must have been doing something right to have their funding taken away.
Apr 22 2013
| by Ralph Surette |
The pileup of cuts, scandals, ideologically driven "reforms" and assaults on democracy have little fires smouldering all over the Harper edifice, although the façade is still standing.
Apr 16 2013
| by John Bennett |
I want to alert you to the most recent attack on environmental protection and democracy in this country and share with you a letter I wrote to Gaetain Caron, Chair and CEO, National Energy Board.
Mar 25 2013
| by Ralph Surette |
The triumphal Harper plan -- trash the public sector, and let the oilsands economy pick up the slack while transforming Canada into a right-wing energy superpower -- is on the skids.
May 5 2010
| by Murray Dobbin |
This is the last in a monumental, 10-part investigation into Prime Minister Stephen Harper's willingness to jettison Canada's democratic traditions.
Apr 30 2010
| by Murray Dobbin |
Insite, political advocacy and the Afghan detainees issue are issues that may seem as though they are worlds apart, but what they show is the Harper government's contempt.
Apr 14 2010
| by Murray Dobbin |
Rights are wrongs to the Harper administration, and all evidence points to further cuts and diminishments.
Apr 7 2010
| by Murray Dobbin |
Ronald Smith, Omar Khadr, Abousfian Abdelrazik -- The prime minister believes the Charter Rights of these men don't matter, and his contempt for the law is shown at every turn.
Mar 31 2010
| by Murray Dobbin |
The prime minister's vendetta against the Canadian Wheat Board and his obsession with the Senate.
Mar 24 2010
| by Murray Dobbin |
Public access to information about what government is doing is at the heart of democratic accountability, but it's a bit of a problem for the prime minister...
rabble.ca columnist Murray Dobbin details the harm Prime Minister Stephen Harper is doing to the political and social fabric of Canada in a new essay commissioned by The Council of Canadians. The complete series will constitute 10 parts published between March and April 2010.
