Attawapiskat
The burgeoning Attawapiskat scandal is attracting politicians and media like flies, the largest being George W Harper, but not excluding the new NDP leader Nycole Turmel.
It’s great the situation is finally getting the attention it’s been deserving for at least a couple of years.
But why did the people who live on the Cree reservation have to wait until Chief Theresa Spence declared an emergency?
“Opposition MPs urged the prime minister Wednesday to go see for himself the realities of life on a northern Ontario reserve struggling with a housing shortage”, continuess the Winnipeg Free Press also, noting:
“Instead, Stephen Harper said he’s sending the auditors,” and adding:
“The federal government has taken control of public funding out of the hands of Attawapiskat and ordered an audit to find out where federal money spent in the Cree community has gone over the last five years and why it hasn’t helped ward off the current housing crisis there.
Stay tuned for Harper, et al to lay the blame on everyone except themselves.
I first wrote about it in April, 2008 after the Timmins-James Bay NDP MP Charlie Angus, to his credit, highlighted the disgrace.
But the real tragedy is: it’s nothing unusual.
Conditions on many of Canada’s first Nations reserves are often appalling, just as bad as those in any Third World country.
December 2nd, 2011 at 10:12 am
Seems Wikileaks has started a new project (just heard of it this morning). It’s called The Spy Files.
Website is here: http://spyfiles.org/
It’s covering domestic surveillance and the companies profiting off of it.
In Canada Sandvine is listed.
A crap load of stories have popped up this morning. Here is only a small sample of them:
YouTube news Vid – WikiLeaks exposes dark secrets of surveillance: releasing Spy Files!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPl3-GcENM8
The art and science of communications intelligence
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2678511.ece
Wikileaks reveals mass surveillance of mobile devices
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2129565/wikileaks-reveals-mass-surveillance-mobile-devices
WikiLeaks files expose surveillance-industrial complex
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57335240-281/wikileaks-files-expose-surveillance-industrial-complex/
People who are reading the spy-files are posting their findings here:
https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23wlfind
December 2nd, 2011 at 10:14 am
More on the new “Spy-Files” can be found here:
http://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html
December 3rd, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Feds pretend they knew nothing about the crisis at Attawapiskat!
Feds aware of Attawapiskat crisis for years
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/03/pol-attawapiskat-thehouse-strahl-fontaine.html?cmp=rss
However, the current Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development John Duncan said this week that officials in his department were unaware of Attawapiskat’s housing problems until Oct. 28, despite having visited the community several times in the past year.
How is it that Jon Newton knew about this and wrote about the fed non-action about 4 years ago, yet now they say they never knew?
December 5th, 2011 at 8:33 am
Kaspersky to ditch anti-piracy software lobbyists, BSA
http://www.cso.com.au/article/409258/kaspersky_ditch_anti-piracy_software_lobbyists_bsa_/
Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab will reportedly leave the anti-piracy lobby group for software companies, Business Software Alliance, over its position on US piracy laws.
Kaspersky intends to withdraw from BSA on January 1, 2012 due to the BSA’s support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Russian daily newspaper Izvestia reports. …
Kaspersky Lab is expected to release an official statement soon.
I find that strange coming from the company who is advocating only allowing people who have an “internet driver-license” using their real name to be only able to access the net…