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- The Ambassador
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover with a diplomatic passport to expose the blood diamond trade in Africa.
- Canada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's Playbook
Similar moves by US Republican president met sharp backlash from 10,000 scientists.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Harper government is now eliminating seven Department of Fishery libraries containing one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information on fisheries, aquatic sciences and nautical sciences.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Dark Days
The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
An exposé of Canadian national security investigations, Kerry Pither's Dark Days exposes a disturbing record of human-rights abuses, both at home and abroad, and ultimately questions our notion of the "Just Society".
- Dismantling Democracy
Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
- EFF Calls Out DOJ for Failing to Provide Crucial Public Information in NSA Case
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Latest Filing in Jewel v. NSA Demands Documents Government Is Trying to Conceal
- GovernmentSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
- Harper's Seven-Year War on Science
Chris Turner's treatise on Tory anti-empiricism should spark outrage. But those in power won't see it.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
- IFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press Records
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Newspaper Guild-CWA, in condemning the U.S. Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Press Journalists and called on the department
- Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal
Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
- The Real Expenses Scandal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry's two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
- Seizure of AP phone records condemned as 'grave violation'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders regards the US Department of Justice's seizure of the records of thousands of Associated Press phone calls as an "extremely grave violation of freedom of information."
- Silence of the Labs
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
Scientists across the country are expressing growing alarm that federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas that range from climate change and ocean habitats to public health will deprive Canadians of crucial information.
- The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance: February 11, 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On February 11, on the Day We Fight Back, the world will demand an end to mass surveillance in every country, by every state, regardless of boundaries or politics.
- The War on Science
Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Do No Science, Hear No Science, Speak No Science -- that is the Harper agenda. And if this agenda is most evident and most pronounced in environmental science, that's simply because it is the field most likely to uncover evidence that the government's paramount goal -- to free the country's resource extraction industries from oversight in the name of rapid expansion -- is wrongheaded, reckless, and damaging.
- Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city's water source be changed from Lake Huron to the notoriously polluted Flint River.
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