Georgia Straight
May 8, 2008

The defendants in a lawsuit brought by CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. over a Vancouver Sun parody got support this week from a magazine editor who knows much about satire and getting sued. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press May 7, 2008

Canada’s equalization system isn’t broken. What’s broken is our national will. We have sleepwalked into an era of what constitutional expert Eugene Forsey once called “province-worship.” (Keep reading…)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 105 …. May 6, 2008 ____________________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

rabble.ca
May 5, 2008

Last year, peace activist Mordecai Briemberg was served with a lawsuit by CanWest. The charge? Producing a fake edition of CanWest’s Vancouver Sun, and infringing upon the company’s trademark related rights in the process. The four-page parody, produced by a group calling itself the “Palestine Media Collective,” focused on what they perceived to be biased media coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict in the Vancouver newspaper. (Keep reading…)

The Ottawa Citizen 2008.05.02

Feel like you’re just treading water economically? Well, join the club. Most working Canadians are in the same boat, according to the latest Statistics Canada analysis of the 2006 census. (Keep reading…)

Society has made great strides in the past generation - just not in wealth creation. The median income in 1980 was $41,348. In 2005, it was a mere $41,401. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

H.L. Mencken once wrote, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press April 30, 2008

Mid-campaign, the RCMP commissioner implicated a senior Liberal cabinet minister in a criminal investigation. One year later, the Mounties exonerated him. Now, Elections Canada is accusing the Conservatives of making “materially false and misleading statements” on their election financial returns and exceeding legal spending limits by $1.1 million in national advertising and $700,000 in taxpayer-funded candidate rebates. (Keep reading…)

Globe & Mail April 25, 2008

Case 1: The Ontario Human Rights Commission has declined to rule on a complaint brought by Arab and Muslim groups against Maclean’s and writer Mark Steyn. The OHRC said its mandate doesn’t cover such things but added, like a consolation prize: “Freedom of expression should be exercised through responsible reporting.” This is clearly wrong. Freedom of expression is exercised through irresponsible reporting — or what some people see that way. That’s when the need to protect it arises. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail April 26, 2008

The final 2006 census data will portray the richest 5 per cent of Canadians as dramatically accumulating more wealth, the incomes of most residents showing perhaps the greatest stagnancy in the developed world and the nation’s poorest falling further and further behind. (Keep reading…)