My thank-you note to journalist David Pugliese follows the posting. Related posting: 2013-10-09 Inside Canada’s top-secret billion-dollar spy palace, CBC News) – – – – – – – – – – – – – Government orders federal departments to keep tabs on all demonstrations across country http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/government-orders-federal-departments-to-keep-tabs-on-all-demonstrations-across-country by David Pugliese June 4, 2014 The federal government […]
D’Arcy writes: Hi folks, This news story in this morning’s StarPhoenix should raise concerns on many levels: “Arbitrator rules against tenure veto power” by Jason Warwick http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/saskatoon/Arbitrator+rules+against+tenure+veto+power/9905370/story.html (INSERT: The text is copied below in case the link becomes inactive.) The recommendation to veto the granting of tenure to a U of S professor was made […]
(This is also about Lockheed Martin Corp, only because it is a useful example.) “The community” is doing an excellent job of educating citizens to what is going on, through letters-to-editors. Keep them rollin’ in! Gordon Barnhart is the Acting President of the University of Saskatchewan, in the wake of the firing of Ilene Busch-Vishniac. […]
UPDATEDMay 14, 2014 10:10 AM CT CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/#!/content/1.2642637 The head of the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Public Health was fired this morning after he spoke out against the school’s TransformUs restructuring plan. The university confirmed that it fired professor Robert Buckingham, but would not comment further. When Buckingham showed up to work this […]
The next census is in 2016. There are renewed calls for a mandatory long-form census. So frustrating! The articles and comments mention nothing about Lockheed Martin’s role. I “commented” on two news articles (links follow), using basically this: = = = = = = TO: Auditor General Michael Ferguson Dear Michael […]
http://www.nationofchange.org/how-privatization-perverts-education-1392652405 By Paul Buchheit Profit-seeking in the banking and health care industries has victimized Americans. Now it’s beginning to happen in education, with our children as the products. There are good reasons—powerful reasons—to stop the privatization efforts before the winner-take-all free market creates a new vehicle for inequality. At the very least, we need the […]
Chantal Bernier is challenging the Government on the indiscriminate, no-warrant collection of personal data by the Government from the Telecom companies. (The Telecoms typically have both your phone and email conversations.) ALSO 2. the data the Government is collecting on citizens through facebook See Chantal Bernier says Ottawa snooping on social media (2014-05-08): http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/chantal-bernier-says-ottawa-snooping-on-social-media-1.2635998 (back-up […]
The article is copied below. But go to the URL – – there are two video clips of discussions on the issue that you might like to see. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/chantal-bernier-says-ottawa-snooping-on-social-media-1.2635998 IMPORTANT NOTE: in the news coverage there is NO reference at all to the closely-related, 2013-10-09 Inside Canada’s top-secret billion-dollar spy palace, CBC News = = = […]
http://www.citynews.ca/2014/05/02/canadians-use-of-tax-havens-grows-to- Canadians’ use of tax havens for both legal and illegal purposes appears to be growing despite government efforts to curtail the practice, says a new paper from a tax avoidance watchdog. Canadians for Tax Fairness says new data shows the use of 10 offshore tax havens by Canadian firms and individuals rose to $170 […]
Add your weight to the petition – – it’s in the text, near the end. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/24 Critics of the new rules say that this could be the moment the internet as we know it will die if the people do not rise to its defense – Jon Queally, staff writer Defenders of an open, […]