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- Canada’s only Americas think-tank to wrap up projects and close at end of September | FOCAL mènera à bien ses projets et fermera ses portes fin septem
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
FOCAL, an independent think-tank created by an Act of Cabinet in 1990 to advance Canadian interests in the Americas, will cease operations at the end of September, when all obligations to funders are fulfilled.
- Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Debunking the Fraser Institute's Latest Crusade: Teacher Merit Pay
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Fresh from the triumph of successfully promoting its fallacious school report card, this time in Alberta, the Fraser Institute is already scheming to peg teacher pay to student test scores and create a market for teachers. We should remember that the institute's success with school rankings would not be possible without over-the-top support from the corporate media.
- Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing "infrastructure" to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.
- A freedom that we can't afford
Rightwing thinktanks profess a love of freedom, but their refusal to reveal who funds them is deeply undemocratic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Freemarket thinktanks vastly outnumber those arguing for public spending. The author suggests that these thinktanks allow corporations to exert influence on public life without showing their hand, he advocates for legislation that would insure their funding is transparent.
- Leading Canadian Think Tank Closes Its Doors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) will cease to exist after 15 years of quality independent public policy research.
- Odious Debts
Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Protesters cast shadow over US billionaires' rally in the sun
Koch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders to discuss how to influence politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Koch brothers' annual rally of rich Americans and rightwing media figures was hosted to raise money for anti-government think tanks and climate change denial. This year a counter rally was orgnaized by Common Cause.
- Publicity and the Canadian State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
A collection examining the state's relationship with public practices and the "permanent campaign," the constant search for politicians and their strategists for popular consent.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
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