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This post originally appeared on the Dogwood Initiative blog. I should confess: I talk to lamp...
Unconventional Adventures: Tracing Our Energy Lifecycle Almost Turned this Filmmaker into a Terrorist and Polar Bear Snack
Fracking, open pit oilsands mining, underground steam injection, mountain top removal mining, Arctic oil drilling...
How Stephen Harper Used God and Neoliberalism to Construct the Radical Environmentalist Frame
Stephen Harper’s efforts to frame environmentalists as radicals who deserve to be investigated by the...
VIDEO: Canada Has a Troubling Definition of ‘Threat’
The government defines a threat completely differently than a citizen does. We think of threats...
What’s More Worrying? Bill C-51 or the Fact That So Many People Don’t Know What’s In It?
Far more disturbing than what’s in Bill C-51 is the fact that most Canadians don’t...
CSIS “Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny” Spying on Me (Or You For That Matter)
When I asked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) whether it has files on me...
Canada and the Politics of Fear: Anti-Terrorism, Surveillance and Citizenship in a Changing World
The Harper government — like so many governments that have come before it and will come after...
Group Calls for Formal Ethics Inquiry into Spy Watchdog Turned Enbridge Lobbyist Chuck Strahl
Public interest group Democracy Watch released a letter (link to pdf) to ethics commissioner Mary...
Legal Expert: “Inherent Challenge” in Having Enbridge Lobbyist Serve as Spy Watchdog
Recent revelations that Canada’s top spy watchdog Chuck Strahl is also a paid lobbyist for...
