Dave Dean
Skinny Puppy Is Invoicing the US Government For $666,000
Last week it was revealed that the American government has been using Skinny Puppy's music as a tool of torture in Guantanmo Bay. That pissed off the band, and now they're billing the US military for it. We interviewed them about it.
Enbridge's Line 7 Pipeline Has Been Approved to Up its Capacity By 40,000 Barrels A Day
The National Energy Board has approved a significant increase in the capacity of Enbridge's Line 7 without holding any public hearings or consulting landowners, once again calling into question their level of concern for public interest.
Mexican Narco Assassins Were Sent to the Philippines to Murder Two Canadian Gangsters
Two gangsters from Vancouver were arrested in Manila this month after being found with lots and lots of drugs. Now, not only are they staring down life in a Philippine prison, they have Mexican Cartel assassins to worry about.
The Canadian Government Was Forced to Release Documents About Child Abuse
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled the federal government must release thousands of police documents concerning the case of six students who were "disciplined" in an electric chair at St. Anne’s residential school.
BC May Be Facing a New Wave of Gang Violence
Are the Red Scorpions, a notorious BC gang involving upper-middle class suburbanites in its death throes after its current leader was stabbed to death last week? Or are things about to kick off again in the lower mainland?
Doctors in British Columbia Are Now Allowed To Prescribe Heroin
A stable, supervised fix is better than scoring on the street.
Doctors in British Columbia Can Now Prescribe Heroin
Clinical studies have shown that prescribing some hardcore addicts heroin can give their lives some much-needed stability. The only question is whether the government's knee-jerk antidrug policies will allow the effective treatment to go forward.
The RCMP and Quebec's Provincial Police Nearly Killed Off the Inuit Sled Dog
Between 1950 and 1970, police used a loophole in an agricultural law to slaughter thousands of dogs, in what many say was an attempt to move the Inuit off the land and into stationary "civilization."
The RCMP Has Stopped Responding to Information Requests
By law, government organizations—ministries, agencies, law enforcement—are required to at least acknowledge that requests for information have been made. But the RCMP isn’t even going that far.
Native American Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade on Ships Along Lake Superior
Native women, children, and even babies are being trafficked in the sex trade on freighters crossing the Canada-US border on Lake Superior between Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Duluth, Minnesota.
The Federal Government Is Surprisingly Blasé About Medical Experiments Conducted on Canada’s First Nations
The Canadian government has stated they won’t be offering an apology to First Nations people from a number of northern communities, who were unknowingly and unwillingly the subjects of medical experiments.
Forcible Circumcision Turned This Man Into an Anti-Circumcision Activist
When Paul Tinari was eight years old and boarded at a church-run school in Montreal, Paul was forcefully held down on a desk and circumcised, because a priest had reason to believe Paul had—God forbid—masturbated. Now Paul is an anti-circumcision...