May 23, 2018
Trudeau brings in election changes but no first-past-the-post replacement
Karl Nerenberg
Trudeau’s plan to make elections fairer is salutary. But it is hard to forget that he flagrantly broke his promise to change the electoral system.
Civil Liberties Watch
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May 23, 2018  Liberals will fix election rules while keeping first-past-the-postKarl Nerenberg Trudeau's plan to make elections fairer is salutary. But it is hard to forget that he flagrantly broke his promise to change the electoral system. |
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May 16, 2018  Senator Murray Sinclair: Community, education, change: Indigenous ways of knowing KIHKINOOHAMAAKEWINTyler Pennock The chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, speaks at the 6th annual Tommy Douglas Institute event on Monday, May 28. |
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May 11, 2018  Tell Walmart: Protect workers’ safety in Bangladesh!UFCW Canada is calling on members and allies to support safe factories and workers’ rights in Bangladesh by sending a message to Walmart urging the company to sign the 2018 Transition Accord. |
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May 9, 2018  Why is Google backing a messaging service without adequate privacy protections?Google will be using a new text message standard to create a new messaging service. Problem is, the new standard is not end-to-end encrypted. |
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May 8, 2018  Design for the margins: New tools for online privacy, security, and anonymityTalking Radical Radio Erinn Atwater and Dan Ballard talk about how the Open Privacy Research Society and how their organization is protecting marginalized people from data theft and other malicious online interceptions. |
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May 8, 2018  Trudeau promotes Five Eyes spying as CSE gets more moneyYves Engler The Five Eyes arrangement has made Canada complicit in belligerent U.S. foreign policy. It's time for a debate about Canadian participation in the "Anglosphere's" intelligence-sharing agreement. |
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May 3, 2018  Support IFEX's World Press Freedom Day campaignAnnie Game We need to support a free and independent media; efforts to undermine them are on the rise, and we need to hear a diversity of voices and opinions more than ever. Check out our 2018 campaign. |
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May 3, 2018  It's World Press Freedom Day. What's wrong with this picture?Annie Game We need to support a free and independent media; efforts to undermine them are on the rise, and we need to hear a diversity of voices and opinions more than ever. Check out our 2018 campaign. |
 Experts calling Netanyahu's claims baseless and childishGuides Tools to help debunk the warmongerers. |
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May 1, 2018  The Facebook data scandal: How protected are Canadians?The Facebook scandal has shown how Canada's privacy laws have failed to protect us, and how they have no power to help us prevent something like this from happening again. |
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Apr 30, 2018  Mourn the dead, fight for the livingOn April 28th, injured workers are demanding a compensation system that treats them with fairness, dignity and provides for means to go on living in the midst of struggle, pain and economic loss. |
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Apr 30, 2018  OSSTF/FEESO celebrates Education Week in MayThe theme of Education Week 2018, Public Education – It’s for Everyone, recognizes a publicly-funded education system is perhaps the province’s most important asset. |
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Apr 25, 2018  I am Rohingya: A genocide in four actsThis powerful documentary chronicles the journey of fourteen Rohingya refugee youth in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, who take to the stage to re-enact their families' harrowing experiences. |
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Apr 18, 2018  Did Canada Post bosses profit from fraudulent injury reports?The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has asked the Auditor General of Canada to investigate what led Canada Post to fraudulently report workplace injuries. |
 A great list of books about race and racismGuides Tools to deepen our understanding of privilege and race. |
 Stand for peace because bombing is not the answer3 Minute Action Tools from Canadian groups fighting for peace. |
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Apr 12, 2018  Exploitation of personal data on Facebook has dark implications for democracyRevelations about Facebook's role in the exploitation of user data by a company called Cambridge Analytica have provoked widespread calls for tough, new data privacy laws. |
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Apr 5, 2018  Charter challenge resumes Monday that seeks to overturn Medicare protectionsDr. Brian Day, CEO of a for-profit surgery clinic, Charter challenge to the ban on extra billing and the use of private insurance for publicly insured services under the Charter, resumes April 9. |
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Apr 5, 2018  Singh being asked to prove he is not an offensive stereotypeThe media’s trial of Singh for alleged extremism reveals a major double standard. Former and current Conservative leaders have supported extremism with little media scrutiny and accountability. |
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Apr 5, 2018  First-past-the-post magnifies vulnerability to Cambridge Analytica style manipulation in CanadaThe sensitivity of our first-past-the-post system to small shifts in voter preferences leads to hyper-partisan behaviour and increases the incentives to engage in dirty tricks and wedge politics. |
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Apr 3, 2018  Transparency shouldn't be optional -- especially when you carry a gunPhillip Dwight Morgan Transparency shouldn't be optional -- especially when you carry a gun |
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Apr 3, 2018  Transparency shouldn't be optional -- especially when you carry a gunPhillip Dwight Morgan Strategic silences, Twitter feuds, and poor accountability mark the Toronto Police. |
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Apr 3, 2018  The cost of free expression online for womenWith online platforms increasingly being a site of public discourse in democratic societies, gendered online violence silences and makes invisible a key sector of society in the public sphere. |
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