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Advertising overload: New Internationalist September 2006
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2006
A look at big brand mass advertising and the effects on how people think and feel.
Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
Tracey, Michael
Book
1998
In a public system, television producers acquire money to make programmes. In a commercial system they make programmes to acquire money. However simple, this little epigram articulates the divergence ...
Dismantling Democracy: Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
Article
2015
An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
Privatization The great privati$ation grab : New Internationalist April 2003
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2003
The effects of privatization on public services. Discusses who is responsible and why they are doing this.
Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
Manek, Haseena
Article
2015
Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been ...

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Corporate Watch
Corporate Watch is a not-for-profit co-operative providing critical information on the social and environmental impacts of corporations and capitalism. Since 1996 our research, journalism, analysis an...
Parliamentary Names & Numbers
Parliamentary Names & Numbers is your guide to governments in Canada. It's an invaluable resource, available online, for anyone who needs information about Canada's politicians, senior bureaucrats, an...

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