Highly recommended website with lots of articles. Required reading by every Canadian who cares about Canada.

8 min video intervew MUST WATCH

AbuNimah     Ghomeshi is smart enough to know better. He’s also smart enough to understand that he can’t just ignore the Palestinian appeal and claim he’s being apolitical. By participating in this event he’s already taken a political stance, and a really bad one at that.

Philip Weiss   Where does this hatred come from? In part, America is its target because we are the sole great power in the word, and, as the preeminent representation of the West, we are reaping the accumulated resentments of centuries of colonialism. ...It became easy for the most disaffected Muslims to connect their personal misery with the subjugation of their people and their religion. Look at the Palestinian territories today for the clearest example of this rage and hatred - Chuck Hagel

Finian Cunningham       After 9/11, President George Bush’s Attorney General John Ashcroft instituted a raft of laws that would target defence lawyers and prevent their exercise of constitutional rights of free speech. Under these new stringent so-called anti-terror laws in the aftermath of 9/11, Stewart was accused of aiding terrorism because of her prison visits to Sheikh Omar and for allegedly passing written communications to his supporters on the outside. This latter accusation was based on a highly contaminated misrepresentation of a press release Lynne Stewart sent to the Reuters news agency concerning the case of her client. In the pre-9/11 era, such legal activities would have been considered normal confidential defence-client relations. Not any more; they are now seen as “collaborating with enemies of the state”

David Bacon   people half a world away wearing the clothes they sew should not turn their faces away. They need real knowledge about how their shirts and blouses are produced, and who produces them.

Matt Taibbi     Two of America's top law-enforcement officials, Attorney General Eric Holder and former Justice Department Criminal Division chief Lanny Breuer, confessed that it's dangerous to prosecute offending banks because they are simply too big. Making arrests, they say, might lead to "collateral consequences" in the economy.

7 min radio interview

 Lia Tarachansky:  From Settler to Peace Advocate

Thursday, May 9  7:00

University of Ottawa, Marion Hall

$10 on line www.nccar.ca, or $15 at the door

 Two Book Signing events in Ottawa,

on May 6 and May 14

Here is an announcement by OCTOPUS Books 

    Monday, May 6, 2013 6:00pm

I am deeply committed to democracy and therefore find it very troubling that MPs in the other parties are being told when they can and cannot speak. Members of Parliament are elected to represent their constituents, not to answer to a political party. Elizabeth May

Juan Cole   200 years from now neither Christianity nor Islam will be central to most peoples' lives. Muslims aren't more prone to violence or terrorism than members of other religious communities because of the character of very early Islam.

Julie Levesque    The FBI originally feigned ignorance over the identity of the two Boston bombing suspects.....

Maria Babbage  “Canada has one of the safest blood systems in the world, and I want to help keep it that way,” she said in a statement.

Jalal Abukhater     As it turns out, firing lots of people doesn't help the economy grow, since more people with fewer jobs means fewer people buying stuff. Income tax revenues go down because people's incomes are down, sales tax revenues go down because people aren't buying stuff, and social safety net spending goes up because fewer people have jobs. It should already be obvious to anyone that austerity doesn't alleviate economic growth, but rather contributes to further economic malaise. MUST READ