Harper’s Anti-Terrorism Act isn’t about Terrorism: it’s a Torture Act
The Harper government's Bill C-51, or Anti-Terrorism Act, has been in the public domain for over a month. Long enough for us to know that…
Michael Keefer
“The Honouring”: Kaha:wi Dance Theatre Performs at Chiefswood
Santee Smith, the artistic director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, explains that “The Honouring” is a “multi-disciplinary performance honouring First Nations warriors of the War of…
Chiefs of Ontario Reject Bill C-10
TORONTO – The Chiefs of Ontario, meeting today at the Eaton Chelsea Hotel in Toronto, have denounced the Conservative government's Bill C-10 as a direct…
Law and Order, Mr Harper? First, Let’s Put an End to Tory Election Fraud
The Harper Government – as our Prime Minister modestly likes it to be called – has been showing its teeth during the past several years.
Justice and Legality: The Sisters of Antigone
Canada does seem to be having persistent problems with the law. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in its Delgamuukw and Marshall decisions, in 1997 and 1999, that First Nations peoples who never made treaties ceding their lands and resources to the Crown retain aboriginal title to their ancestral territories.
Canada’s Problems with the Law
Rob Ford, now universally referred to as “the crack-smoking mayor of Toronto,” continues to astonish us – not just because he can’t open his mouth in public without bullying, lying, confessing to some further crime, or saying something obscene about his wife – but also because of what his ongoing saga suggests about the state of Canadian justice.
Noam Chomsky: Indigenous people “are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us”
MONTREAL – Noam Chomsky, the celebrated 85-year old American linguist, peace activist and social critic who is the author of more than one hundred books and the world’s most frequently quoted intellectual, was in Montréal on October 26 to help celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the magazine Canadian Dimension.
During his visit, Chomsky delivered a lecture at the Université de Montréal in which he analyzed the decline of American power.