ACTA Leak: EU pushes for criminalizing non-commercial usages
Related: Experts Draft Document Critical Of ACTA: Signatures Wanted | Pro-copyright bill group busted as recording industry astroturf campaign | Tories unveil tougher copyright bill, requires ISPs to...
View ArticleFirst G20 ‘secret law’ arrestee plans Charter challenge
Related: G20 law gives police sweeping powers to arrest people | CP Reporter: How I was detained by G8 security | G20: Activists Arrested, Others Denied Entry into Canada | UK: Filmmaker Captures...
View ArticleStates Must Honor Gun Rights, U.S. High Court Says
A disarmed people are vulnerable, and at risk of enslavement to the expansion of authoritarian governments both domestic and foreign. Dictatorships thoughout history have employed gun control to...
View ArticleCivil liberties association to sue police on behalf of G20 arrestees
Please consider supporting the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. They have a breakdown of the charges laid (or lack thereof) against the 1,105 people arrested here. Related: Four detained...
View ArticleCanada Day: 2,000 protest G20 summit arrests
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. – Howard Zinn Related: Civil liberties association to sue police on behalf of G20 arrestees | Four detained journalists file complaints of assault, sexual...
View ArticleRelease G20 ‘political prisoners’: rights groups
“You can’t pre-emptively violate rights and then ask citizens to sort it out in the future,” White said. Exactly. Related: Canada Day: 2,000 protest G20 summit arrests | Civil liberties association to...
View ArticleCivilian body, SIU to probe G20 role of police
Police states don’t appear full blown, over night. They are, like any other social phenomenon, part of social and political process — the end result of long term corruption of the political...
View ArticleUsing the TPP to Renegotiate and Expand NAFTA
Dana Gabriel, BeYourOwnLeader June 25, 2012 Both Canada and Mexico have been invited to join the U.S., along with other countries already engaged in negotiations which will deepen trade and economic...
View ArticleFinal Push for a Canada-EU CETA and the Coming NAFTA-EU Free Trade Zone
By Dana Gabriel, Be Your Own Leader March 30, 2013 Pressure is mounting on Canada to finish up a long-delayed trade deal with the EU. Despite outstanding issues that still must be settled, there is a...
View ArticleThe Return of ACTA: U.S. Dictating Canada’s Intellectual Property Laws
By Dana Gabriel, Be Your Own Leader April 23, 2013 In March, the Canadian government introduced a bill that would bring about sweeping changes to its copyright and trademark laws. This includes giving...
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