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Bloody Oil Film
George Poitras, member of Mikisew Cree indigenous First Nation talks about the issues of pollution and cancers suffered by many of the First Nations people as a result of the Oil companies action extractive industries.
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Slavoj Žižek interviewed on Democracy Now!
Cultural theorist and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek was interviewed on today’s episode of Democracy Now!
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Zelaya returns!
Zelaya has returned, though this hardly means the de facto Micheletti regime has recognized the democratically elected president. Along with denying Zelaya’s return, Micheletti is trying to downplay the growing resistance to the coup regime. This resistance represents much more than outrage at the ousting of a democratically elected president. As one Honduran woman’s rights advocate said, “What Zelaya has done is symbolize the popular discontent accumulated over the years.”
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Amnesty report highlights police brutality in Honduras
Yesterday, Amnesty International released a document that profiles the abuse of Honduran police and military against pro-Zelaya (or at least, pro-democracy) peaceful protesters.
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Toleration in liberal democracies
All too often, immigration dialogue is shaped by the self-congratulatory notion of toleration — a word meant to refer to an inclusive, pluralistic society, a country the lacks a dominant identity. But the very word ‘toleration’ assumes a norm, the group who accepts and accommodates the difference. As Canada’s immigration policy is under reform or change, I think there needs to be more discussion on the one word that has shaped policy in this liberal democracy.
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Canada and Micheletti
A month into the military coup in Honduras, Canada has still to do anything that suggests it actually “respects democratic norms and rule of law” like Peter Kent’s initial statement regarding the coup suggests.
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Creating Communities
If Harper and the federal government continue to only reference Canada’s mythologized north then documents such as the Northern Strategy will continue to ignore the needs of real northern communities.
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Jason Kenney, reductionist
What has to be most appalling about the new visa requirement is that Kenney is making this an issue of legality and economics and trying to shy away from actually discussing human rights abuses.
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Will Harper tie aid to the military coup?
The federal Conservatives recently shifted 80% of its annual foreign aid to Latin America and the Caribbean. Will this influence Harper’s position on the military coup in Honduras where interim president Roberto Micheletti is intimately connected with the business elite?
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Political choices in the produce isle
How do we decide what we eat? Do we know enough about the food production process to make an informed decision on the merit of eating organically? Is our decision to eat or not eat organic foods made for health reasons or political reasons?
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