The entire world seems to be one huge advertisement for The Shock Doctrine. Naomi Klein showed in her revelatory book how the corporate-political-military-media complex exploits crises to further impose their harsh right-wing agenda -- even when they themselves created the crisis. In a sane world, the economic meltdown and deep recession of the past four years would have led at minimum to stringent regulation of financiers and speculators plus programs to assist their victims. But in this world, you have to be nuts to believe in a sane world.

Canadians are using creative tactics to draw attention to the invasive and excessive nature of the government's online spying bills. It's starting to work -- combined, Canadians' voices, the names on the StopSpying.ca petition, and the media attention it all garnered has forced the government to start to back down. But we still have a long way to go...