By Chris Hedges

What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding for the arts. A good record on the environment.

But that was the old Canada. I was in Montreal on Friday and Saturday and saw the familiar and disturbing tentacles of the security and surveillance state. Canada has withdrawn from the Kyoto Accords so it can dig up the Alberta tar sands in an orgy of environmental degradation. It carried out the largest mass arrests of demonstrators in Canadian history at 2010’s G-8 and G-20 meetings, rounding up more than 1,000 people. It sends undercover police into indigenous communities and activist groups and is handing out stiff prison terms to dissenters. And Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a diminished version of George W. Bush.

read full article http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/30

Governments lie.  The Harper Canadian government coordinates lying about "the imminent destruction of human life on the planet".  Global heating.  The only answer is action - by you and me.  By us all.  Action.

By Kevin D. Annett

If James Joyce is right, and history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken, then it is also true that victory belongs to those who can remember.

Twenty years ago, soon after my ordination as a clergyman in the United Church of Canada, I first began to hear stories of what my church had done to innocent children in its Indian residential schools. Like most people, I didn’t believe the accounts of murder and torture I was hearing. And if I had have kept my ears and heart closed to these tales, I would have been spared an enormous personal loss and liberation.

But fate, and choice, forced me not only to listen, but give voice and a platform to hundreds, and then thousands of indigenous men and women whose stories you will read in these pages. And as a result, the face of Canada has been changed forever.

read full article http://www.wariscrime.com/2012/01/24/news/the-canadian-holocaust-hidden-no-longer/

The Mainstream Press and Media (MSM) have been accused of being messenger-boys for the Big Corporations.  And, now, they're accused of being Big Corporations themselves, purposefully misleading the public.

A kind of conservative in British Columbia wants the best for the province.  Stephen Harper and Christy Clark, B.C.'s premier, are trying to get those conservatives to join "the looters" of B.C.

When the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) reported that Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) dedicated countless INAC staff and thousands of dollars to spying on Cindy Blackstock -- I think most of us in Turtle Island gave our heads a shake.

While it has been known for some time that Canada spies on our Indigenous leaders and community members who defend our lands, I don't think most of us were aware that any First Nation advocate was a target. This is what shocked me the most -- that Canada's "national security" laws are so broad as to make someone like Cindy Blackstock an enemy of the state.

read full article http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pamela-palmater/2012/01/csis-and-me-what-first-nation-activities-are-not-considered-p

The Courts in British Columbia are in disarray.  They exist in a corrupt province - and (with the Mainstream Press and Media) they mirror that corruption.

Since at least 2005, China has been taking the exact steps required to counter the brunt of a global debt collapse.

CTVNews.ca Staff

The United States Senate passed budget legislation Saturday that included a provision demanding that President Barack Obama decide the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days.

U.S. Senators agreed to the terms of the legislation on Friday evening and approved it in a rare Saturday session.

The legislation calls for a two-month extension of a Social Security payroll tax cut and also extends jobless benefits for Americans who have been unemployed for six months or more.

GOP Senators pushed to include in the bill the Keystone provision, which requires that Obama decide within 60 days whether to give the pipeline the go-ahead.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111217/senate-obama-keystone-111217/#ixzz1gvNBde33

After months of negotiations, the U.S. and Canada have unveiled new trade, regulatory and security initiatives to speed up the flow of goods and people across the border. The joint action plans provide a framework that goes beyond NAFTA and continues where the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) left off. This will take U.S.-Canada integration to the next level and is the pretext for a North American Homeland Security perimeter.
 

read full article http://beyourownleader.blogspot.com/2011/12/pretext-for-north-american-homeland_11.html