| Maher Arar speaks to a CCPA fundraising dinner in Vancouver about the loss of civil and human rights in post 9/11 Canada.

| The Service Employees International Union lost their battle to represent 36,000 teachers in Puerto Rico.

| The Ontario Power Authority is planning to use old reactors to build up to 14,000 megawatts of capacity by 2025.

| Chris Spannos talks about his new book Real Utopia, which explores the idea of revolutionizing everyday life within the framework of participatory economics.

| The U.S. National Lawyers Guild is calling on Barack Obama to shut down the detention centre on the day he takes office.

| Environmental groups are calling for a moratorium on new project approvals. Petr Cizek says this isn’t enough.

| Bruce Eriksen was a fierce advocate for the people of Vancouver’s downtown eastside, and an unlikely candidate for a musical biography.

| Identity theft is one of the most serious types of privacy breach and it's growing all the time, according to Richard Rosenberg of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association.

| Stephen Harper says they're $8 billion. Steve Staples says they're closer to $28 billion. Steve Staples is author of a recent Rideau Institute paper on the true cost of Canada's mission.

| Sporting goods corporations, real estate companies and major media outlets all stand to make huge profits from the Olympic Games.