Liberal Commitment to the Charter of Rights and Freedom: Prime Minister J Trudeau mandated Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould (Attorney General): … You are expected to ensure that the rights of Canadians are protected, that our work demonstrates the greatest possible commitment to respecting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and that our government seeks to fulfill […]
January 9, after reading news reports like 2016-01-07 Statistics Canada Ready To Deliver Long-Form Census For 2016, having had no success with Ministers Responsible for the Census, for Democratic Institutions and for Charter Rights, I phoned one of the two Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Justice. The attendant who answered the phone was attentive. We discussed; I followed up […]
Very important legal case, Jessica Ernst, at Supreme Court. (Further to: 2013-10-09 ERNST VS ENCANA: Chief Justice finds . . (about water and the rights of the petroleum industry)) http://thetyee.ca/News/2016/01/08/End-Fracking-Regulator-Immunity/ Jessica Ernst’s long battle over rights, well contamination reaches highest court Tuesday (Jan 9, 2016). An Alberta woman’s landmark eight-year battle over fracking regulation, water […]
Please help notify friends and family about the Government’s consultations on the Trade Deal. Edmonton Jan 11th, Vancouver, Jan 12th. … I would definitely have made the trip to Vancouver to attend, had I had sufficient advance notice. In lieu of, I Posted to Facebook page for Minister for International Trade, Chrystia Freeland: The “investor-state dispute resolution” […]
Please see the Comment at bottom of this posting and my rebuttal. If that is insufficient, there are many postings on this blog about this issue. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/07/statscan-uses-census-common-sense-when-it-came-to-planning-for-2016_n_8927442.html CP | By Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press OTTAWA – If Statistics Canada was surprised by the Conservatives before the last census, this time it was ready for […]
By Paul Brian (Link no longer valid) A Shia Muslim who lives in Greece takes part in a rally outside Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Athens on Wednesday. She was protesting the execution of cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. (THANASSIS STAVRAKIS/AP) The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your […]
RELATED TO: 2016-06-29 Post-Brexit results: Is governing by referendum democratic? Reply to CBC The Current. Linguistics. Corporatocracy. Bernie Sanders vs. the Corporatocracy by Richard W. Behan We are no longer a nation of self-governing people. Our democracy has been captured by American corporate enterprise, and now we confront a documented plutocracy in its place. If […]
Edward Snowden: A ‘Nation’ Interview November 17, 2014 Issue In a wide-ranging conversation, he discusses the surveillance state, the American political system and the price he’s paid for his understanding of patriotism. By Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen October 28, 2014 (All photos by Nicola Cohen) On October 6, Nation editor and publisher […]
This is further to: 15-06- 06 Epigenetics & Trauma. A further consideration, cellular memory passed inter-generationally. Residential Schools. http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes Dan Hurley June 25, 2015 Alison Mackey/DISCOVER Your ancestors’ lousy childhoods or excellent adventures might change your personality, bequeathing anxiety or resilience by altering the epigenetic expressions of genes in the brain. [This article originally appeared […]
DISCLOSURE OF DOCUMENTS NUMBER OF HITS on Category X1 and X1A during period of password removal. Summary: not possible to obtain (unless you are the CIA?!). Dan Schalm and Jeff Fisher (tech specialists) in email thread below say there isn’t a way to obtain the data. In addition, I made concentrated effort to find a way through […]