Site of the Week

  • March 8, 2012

    February at Occupy Ottawa saw artistic events celebrating local Ottawa artists, rallies against the Bill C-10 Crime Bill, support for the Families of Sisters in Spirit 2nd annual day of Justice and Occupy Winterlude.  Discussion at Occupy Ottawa revolved around the banking system, the South March highlands, the Northern Gateway pipeline, Bill C-10 , Monsanto, the Federal Court of Appeal challenge on the constitutionality of Security Certificates, concern over the talk of military action on Iran, the planned clearcutting of 200-300 year old trees in Gatineau park for the highway 5 expansion, the strike by support workers at the Ottawa Salvation Army, continued discussion on Vic Toews and Bill C-30 and the Harper Government’s Robo-call scandal.

  • December 1, 2011

    NDP page for 2012 leadership

  • December 1, 2011

    The go to site for Canadian political statistical and poll analysis.

  • November 8, 2011

    Video stories on the occupy movement. http://whytooccupy.org/

  • November 8, 2011

    The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) is a national voice devoted to promoting labour rights as an important means to strengthening democracy, equality and economic justice here in Canada and internationally. 

    The key objectives the Foundation has established for itself are:

    • Create greater public awareness and understanding of labour rights as a key critical component of human rights;
    • Build effective political momentum and public support for progressive labour law reform;
    • Promote fundamental labour standards in Canada that enhance union organizing including, but not limited to, the right of all workers to belong to a union and to engage in collective bargaining and strike action;
    • Provide a critical voice against any future regressive labour law being contemplated or introduced by a government in Canada; and
    • Monitor, provide advice and offer coordination on legal challenges to labour laws with a view to strategically moving labour rights ahead in Canada.

    CFLR provides a forum for its members to promote and publish their independent research, policy papers and articles which are consistent with the objectives of the Foundation.

    CLFR also promotes its work within the broader labour rights communities – unions and other labour organizations, labour relations programs within Canadian universities and colleges, labour law schools and legal firms and other progressive think tanks.

    Board of Directors

    Paul Cavalluzzo
    Senior Partner
    Cavalluzzo, Hayes, Shilton, McIntyre & Cornish LLP, Toronto

    James Clancy
    National President
    National Union of Public and General Employees

    Judy Fudge
    Professor of Law
    Faculty of Law, University of Victoria

    Nathalie Des Rosiers
    General Counsel
    Canadian Civil Liberties Association

    Steven Barrett
    Senior Partner
    Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, Toronto

    Drew Plaxton
    President
    Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers (CALL)

    Paul Champ
    Senior Partner
    Champ and Associates, Ottawa

    Veena Verma
    Montreal-based lawyer specializing in migrant workers' rights

    Matthew Gapmann
    Barrister and Solicitor
    Grondin Poudrier Bernier Advocats, S.E.N.C. Montréal

    Marjorie S. Brown
    Partner
    Victory Square Law Office, LLP, Vancouver

    Wayne Hanley
    National President
    United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada

    Paul Taillefer
    President
    Canadian Teachers’ Federation

     

  • October 13, 2011

    For info about Occupy Toronto.

  • October 12, 2011

    Occupy Love - a site by Velcrow Ripper

  • October 12, 2011

    The original.

  • October 12, 2011

    OccupyTogether.org