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After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on
Walker, Peter
Article
2016
The Ecologist
Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush...
Behind the Numbers
A blog from the CCPA
Website
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Commentary on issues that affect Canadians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, budgets, taxes, public services, and employment.
Biggest criminals write laws that make their crimes legal
Segnini, Giannina
Article
2013
ICIJ
Giannina Segnini discusses her bribery investigations that helped put two former presidents of Costa Rica in jail, and offers advice to aspiring investigative journalists.
Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2000
Ulli Diemer
The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Article
2016
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of current and former world leaders, politicians , public officials, and wealthy individuals around the world.
GovernmentSources.ca
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 impor...
I'll bet you didn't know you own billions of dollars in coal stocks
Fillmore, Nick
Article
2016
A Different Point of View
Exposing the investments and other involvements of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the fossil fuel industry.
In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
Ainger, Katharine
Article
2013
Guardian Weekly
The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
Key findings: The Panama Papers by the numbers
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Article
2016
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The largest cross-border journalism collaboration ever has uncovered a giant leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama.
Let the People Know
Put Full Texts of Government Contracts Online
NADER, Ralph
Article
2013
Counter Punch
Openness in our government is essential for a healthy democracy
The Panama Papers
Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash
Article
2016
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in fa...
Panamanian Law Firm Is Gatekeeper To Vast Flow of Murky Offshore Secrets
Files show client roster that includes drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders - and wrongdoing galore
Hamilton, Martha M.
Article
2016
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Founding partners of Mossack Fonseca had international pedigrees and backgrounds in the worlds of money, power and secrets. The law firm helps clients respond swiftly to changes in laws, shifting busi...
Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal
Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
Helmore, Edward
Article
2012
The Guardian
In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
Preparing for a Digital 9/11
Greenberg, Karen
Article
2012
TomDispatch
In recent years, in one of the more dangerous, if largely undiscussed, developments of our time, the Bush and then Obama administrations have launched the first state-planned war in cyber space. First...
Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
Mahmood, Mona; O'Kane, Maggie; Madlena, Chavala; Smith, Teresa
Article
2013
Guardian Weekly
The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurg...
The Secret Secret
Of Wikileaks and Literacy
Johnson, Jimmy
Article
2010
CounterPunch
Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret pri...
Stairway to Tax Heaven
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Article
2016
http://panamapapers.icij.org/stairway_tax_heaven_game/
A news role-play game featuring three fictitious characters: Juan Penalti (Soccer Player), Polly Tissien (Politician) and Edmund von Kronen (Business Executive). Welcome to the secret world of offshor...
Why Occupy Wall Street Must Include Deamdn for Honest, Observably Counted, Unrigged Elections
Article
2016
Election Defense Alliance
Too many critical parts of our electoral process are controlled by private partisan corporations. The counting of our votes is now controlled by these corporations' software inside computerized "black...

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Auditor General of Canada
The Office audits departments and agencies, most Crown corporations, and many other federal organizations; it is also the auditor for the governments of Nunavut, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territori...


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