Recently I contributed to the support
of the Tyee, an on-line newspaper
https://support.thetyee.ca/
In my work as an intervenor for the Board of the Friends of Ecological Reserves on the Kinder Morgan /TMX Pipeline Hearings Process, I have found the Tyee to be the only news outlet with regular reports on what is really going on with the National Energy Board .
I found these quotes particularly appropriate in the article : Bill C-51 Reveals Harper’s Inner Bully–The need to ramp up civic literacy is ‘critical.‘ By Murray Dobbin, 20 Mar 2015:
- “Exactly how historians will describe this period in Canadian history is anyone’s guess, but one approach could be to look upon the Harper era as an experiment in revealing how vulnerable democracies are to political sociopaths bold enough and ruthless enough to bend or break every rule and tradition on which democracy’s foundation rests.”
- “But when a politician suddenly appears on the scene willing to systematically violate democratic principles as if they simply don’t apply to him, then the demand for increased civic literacy is just as suddenly urgent and critical. Yet it is not something can be accomplished easily or quickly. Three sources come to mind: schools, the media and civil society organizations and activity.”