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Elections | Election fraud or dirty tricks? The legal status of #robocalls | Mar 15 2012 | Peter Rosenthal | While authorities are investigating election calls, many people are uncertain about whether deliberately misinforming voters about the location of their polling station is illegal or a "dirty trick."

Elections | Politics in Canada | Robocall scandal is Canada's Watergate | Mar 15 2012 | Linda McQuaig | Perhaps it's our Canadian modesty that prevents us from thinking we could have a scandal as big-league and important as Watergate. But that modesty may be misplaced.

Environment | March 15 is Bottled Water Free Day! | Mar 15 2012 | Emma Lui | Today, join the Canadian Federation of Students, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Sierra Youth Coalition, the Council of Canadians, and the Polaris Institue for Bottled Water Free Day!

growing food yourself has become the most radical act of protest

Environment | Dig in! | Mar 15 2012 | This detailed workshop guide is a great way to break down food security

Environment | Occupy | To re-Occupy or not to re-Occupy | Mar 15 2012 | Stephen Collis | Spring is just around the corner and across North America Occupy is gearing up to take back public space. One Vancouver Occupier shares his vision for the movement's renewal.

Environment | Blue Planet Project and KruHa together on the right to water | Mar 15 2012 | Brent Patterson | In July 2010, the Blue Planet Project joined with people around the world to celebrate the United Nations General Assembly adoption of Resolution 64/292, the recognition of the right to water.

Environment | Barlow says public pension funds must support public water services | Mar 15 2012 | Brent Patterson | We are at FAME (Forum Alternatif Mondial de l'Eau/ Alternative World Water Forum) this afternoon for a Municipal Services Project (MSP) session on the need to connect research and activism.

Environment | Politics in Canada | No Habitat - No Fish; No Protection - No Habitat | Mar 15 2012 | Ramsey Hart | An internal government memo leaked to fisheries biologist Otto Langer suggests that the Federal government plans on removing a crucial provision of the Fisheries Act – one of Canada’s most important e

Environment | Occupy | Start a good food box program | Mar 15 2012 | How to start a good food box program in your community.

food is a lot more complex than it looks

Environment | Food security into drama | Mar 15 2012 | A workshop about how to use drama to communicate issues in food sustainability.

Feminism | Parliament to debate abortion in April | Mar 15 2012 | Mercedes Allen | Conservative Party backbencher Stephen Woodworth has put forward a motion that will result in a debate in Parliament on abortion, tentatively scheduled for Monday, April 26.

Indigenous Rights | Activist Communique: Our culture is not a Halloween costume‏ | Mar 15 2012 | Krystalline Kraus | Cultural appropriation is never OK. For fun or not. Please help my community by signing a petition against cultural appropriation and fake gakti Halloween costumes.

NDP | Politics in Canada | Why Nathan Cullen is my first choice for NDP leader | Mar 15 2012 | Alice Klein | This is a power moment in progressive politics. In addition to choosing a new leader, the March 24 NDP convention will also be a big swath of the grassroots in this country.

Politics in Canada | Media focus on senior dumped at Emergency Ward signals more trouble for Redford Tories | Mar 15 2012 | David J. Climenhaga | Heavy news coverage of the shocking way an Alberta senior with dementia was dumped at an Emergency Room is not altruism or the fact it's a great news story. It's because the media smells Tory blood.