- Austerity chokes Canada's down-and-out, as Harper, Flaherty look the other way
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The exceedingly aggressive austerity cuts carried out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the past seven years have come home to roost as millions of Canadians, depressed and without hope, are succumbing to its worst consequences.
- The big robo-calling question: will anyone go to jail?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Good investigative journalism could break this affair wide open, but will the owners of the Harper-friendly corporate media allow their journalists to go beyond normal reporting and do the hard work necessary to get to the very bottom of this dark story?
- Canada's prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper, who won by an uncomfortably small margin in the last election, has passed laws designed to keep voters who oppose him from the polls.
- The Canadian Elections: Cover-Up and Steal (Again)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The opposition parties in Canada's 2015 federal election are sticking to a careful PR-driven script, refusing to even mention the fact that Stephen Harper's Conservatives broke the law and committed fraud in winning the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections. The mainstream media and the political parties scrupulously ignore this reality.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Lies
Resource Type: Audio
Published: 2015
A parody song aimed at Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Statement to Stephen Harper in support of Chief Theresa Spence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) Urges Prime Minister Harper To Meet With Attawapiskat First Nation Chief.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- 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.
- Elections Canada bungled its investigation of Michael Sona and the 2011 robocall scandal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Because the 'robocalls' fraud of Canada's 2011 federal election was insufficiently investigated by state authorities and underreported by the corporate media, Canadians have yet to understand its scale, focus, and impact.
- Federal Budget a disappointment to nurses, patients, families
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Harper Conservatives fail to provide any leadership to protect and improve public healthcare in Canada
- 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.
- The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. It is not a pretty picture.
- Harper's Relationship With the Jewish Defense League Is Disturbing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
With Canada's federal election less than two weeks away, Levitan addresses a highly topical matter: the Conservatives' close relations with the controversial Jewish Defense League (JDL).
- Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- Jewish human rights group condemns Harper government's position on UN Palestine vote
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Some Canadian Jews are adamantly opposed to the Harper government's unquestioning support for what Israel is doing.
- Just winning next election not enough for Liberals or NDP
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
if there is a new government, it will come to power with the extreme right wing more entrenched than ever before.... Aggressive organizations are determined to maintain policies that tend to reward the rich and penalize the rest of us.
- The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Mel Hurtig's new book designed to oust prime minister Stephen Harper
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Article on author Mel Hurtig and his new book criticizing Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and his government.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
- Potential Conservative Environment Minister?
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2015
It’s a pity that the Conservative candidate caught peeing into a customer's coffee cup has resigned. He’d make a perfect Environment Minister in the Harper government.
- Saturday: Canadians stand against the Omnibus Budget Bill at 54 MP Offices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
This Saturday, at 54 confirmed locations across the country, Canadians will gather at Conservative MPs offices, and support locations, to voice their concerns about the Federal Budget Bill currently before Parliament.
- Slumming It At the Rodeo
The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
- The Socialist Register 1987
Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Socialist Register 1993
Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1993
- Strong voter registration campaign could mean the end for Harper
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The primary objective of Stephen Harper's absurdly-named Fair Elections Act is to prevent hundreds-of-thousands of Canadians from voting for the NDP, Liberals, Greens, etc. But efforts to help people to register to vote are not as strong as they could be. There needs to be close co-operation among groups to make sure that as many people as possible - particularly people in some 70 ridings where the Conservatives are vulnerable - have the identification they need to vote.
- Sympathy for Stephen Harper: Imagine that everyone you trusted had lied to you
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
You will be familiar with the picture we have created of him: suspicious, paranoid, controlling, a leader who trusts no one, leaves nothing to others, insists on taking a hand in even the smallest matter. Well, you'd be suspicious, paranoid and controlling, too, if everyone around you was lying to you all the time.
- 'Upstanding Citizens' Escape Justice in Tory 'In-and-Out' Scandal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The "In-and-Out" Scandal: Case should have proceeded against 'Upstanding citizens'.
This is a story about illegal activities, deceit and lying involving an overzealous group of Canadians who seemed prepared to do just about anything to accomplish their mission – win a federal election.
- What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
- What progressive groups must do to defeat, or stymie, the Harper regime
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Canada’s progressive community needs to make some significant changes if it hopes to slow down the assault being carried out on the country by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and their right-wing allies.
- Whoa Canada
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2015
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