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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2012
Every Tool Shapes the Task “In thinking about this issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, I took an inspiration from Battleground Schools. It is an encyclopaedia…
Militarizing Canadian Culture
Our government and media not just excusing war, but glorifying it “The deformed human mind is the ultimate doomsday weapon.” —British historian E.P. Thompson. *…
Occupy Canada: media pundits vs reality
The Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Canada protests seem to be occupying – and perhaps unhinging – the minds of media pundits – at least, those who…
Thanks to Wikileaks
Myth of Canada’s non-involvement in Iraq war discredited “One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has…
The Internet Tree
The State of Telecom Policy in Canada 3.0 Download 1.71 MB218 pages In this collection, committed public interest advocates and academics present primers on provocative…
Amy Goodman at CCPA-BC Annual Fundraiser, April 2011
View all six clips on our youtube channel.
Poorly designed third party advertising rules chilled election debate, reduced voter access to information: Study
(Vancouver) A new study finds that BC’s third party advertising rules caused extensive problems for “small spenders” such as non-profits and charities during the 2009…
Democratic Media Reform in Canada
Campaigns, coalitions aim to democratize media system Faced with a corporate-dominated mediascape and perceived editorial indifference or hostility, trade unions and other progressive Canadian organizations…
Faux News North?
It now seems a certainty that we will soon have our very own “Fox News North” cable channel as Quebecor is poised to launch “SUN…
A Pandemic of Greed
The real global epidemic is blatant media fear-mongering If there is any pandemic sweeping the globe, it’s one of fear and greed, not a deadly…
June 2008: Perception Management
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the lies As someone who worked as a journalist for many years, and later as a communicator…
June 2008: The Press Vs. The People
Media ownership in Canada one of world’s most concentrated Lawrence Martin of the Globe and Mail, writing in 2005, noted that the media in Canada…
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