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- American Chamber of Commerce in Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
The American Chamber of Commerce in Canada ("AmCham Canada") is a private, non-profit membership organization that promotes the two-way flow of trade and investment between Canada and the United States. The AmCham's Ontario Region hosts events within the province to connect business owners with expansion opportunities.
- Beyond Sovereignty
Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
- Big firms to get hotline to ministerial 'buddies'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Plans are under way to give the heads of the UK's 50 top companies a hotline to individual government ministers. The Department for Business said the idea - designed to boost investment - had been welcomed by the companies.
- Canada's Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.
- Canadian Ethnocultural Council
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Franchise Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmare
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype ‘city of the future,’ where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life.
- Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes.
- Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
- Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
The Real Welfare Kings and Queens
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
- 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.
- The Internet is Already Broken
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
- McMillan LLP
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Other Police State
Private Cops vs. the Public Good
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A revealing study on "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits" written by Gary Ruskin confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state. It details how some companies use the security apparatus, including questionable espionage tactics, against anyone who challenges their authority.
- The Polluters
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
- 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.
- Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people.
- Sources welcomes Strategic Insights Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes Strategic Insights Canada. Strategic Insights Canada provides competitive market research and analysis in Ontario energy, nuclear energy, aerospace and municipal infrastructure.
- Strategic Insights Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Toronto Board of Trade
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
- The U.S. Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from China's infiltrations of Google, Nortel, and other corporate targets. Turns out that isn't true.
- The X-Rated Free Market
On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the political shaping of markets.
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