SUGGESTIONS of relevant course material
Websites, organizations, individuals to check out for this course and for your project. Also useful simply to get different perspectives on current issues, from local to global.
 | Canadian Civil Liberties Association and respective provincial groups |
| Canadian gov't departments of RCMP, CSIS, other police, Dept. of Defence |
| Independent media organizations, aka as indymedia |
| Anti-WTO actions throughout the world - every time there is a meeting on free trade, G-8, UN, etc… |
| Adbusters |
| Other social dissent or crim. of dissent course websites |
| Polaris Institute |
| http://www.rideauinstitute.ca/ Rideau Institute |
| Pembina Institute |
| Parkland Institute |
| Post-Carbon Institute |
| Canadian centre for policy alternatives |
| Council of Canadians |
| Lawyer Clayton Ruby |
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http://briarpatchmagazine.com/ (Canadian) |
| http://thetyee.ca/ Canadian independent media |
| http://www.aljazeera.com/ English Al Jazeera |
| http://therealnews.com/ |
| www.rabble.ca (Canadian based independent news) |
| http://sgnews.ca/ Straight goods (Canadian) merging with rabble.ca |
| http://www.alternet.org/ |
| www.truthout.org (independent news U.S. based) |
| www.nationofchange.org |
| http://www.popularresistance.org/ |
| http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml |
| http://www.dominionpaper.ca/ (Canadian national independent newspaper) |
| Christopher Hitchins |
| Christopher Hedges |
| George Monbiot www.monbiot.com |
| Christopher Martinson www.peakprosperity.com |
| Noam Chomsky |
| Howard Kunstler |
| www.collapsenet.com |
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| Democracy Now (Public Broadcasting Service), Amy Goodman - U.S. based http://www.democracynow.org/ |
| www.miningwatch.ca |
| http://rt.com/ |
| http://moxnews.com/ |
| www.avaaz.org |
| the Guardian (UK newspaper) |
Some mainstream sources have occasional good news analysis stories: Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star
Some right wing (extremist) news sources: National Post, http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/ (Canadian equivalent to U.S. Fox news), Fox news, Heritage Foundation (US), expose the media, the so-called Accuracy in Media, Fraser Institute & CD Howe Institute (both Canadian right wing think tank)
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