1. Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
   Malicious Government Prosecution
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy..
2. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
   His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
3. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information Freedom
   They Can't Stop the Movement
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What's more, his death was the outcome of a policy that is a threat to human freedom.
4. Alasdair S. Roberts
   Resource Type: Website
   Provides resources relating to Professor Alasdair Roberts' current research on freedom of information law.
5. Banamex v. Narco News Precedent Protects WikiLeaks, Too
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   The story – one that defines the times we live in - has been going on for a while now: State power (and that includes private-sector “states” such as corporations and commercial media organizations) can no longer hide behind commercial (and State-owned) media to consolidate and centralize power when citizens deploy decentralized, small scale, and even temporary media resistances outside of those institutions in these ways that make big media irrelevant.
6. Banned Books
   Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1970
   
7. The Boy Who Could Change the World
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.
8. Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
   Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
11. Challenged Books List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
12. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
13. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
16. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
17. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
19. Copyright policies threaten internet use in Panama and Colombia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism, enacting increasingly restrictive copyright enforcement measures into their federal laws.
20. Dismantling Democracy
    Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
21. Fame & Fortune Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
22. Freedom of information
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
23. Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit in the United States
    Keeping Americans Safe
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The United States is a land of ill-informed sheep and the home of a bunch of cowards — cowards in government who are afraid of the truth and the open debate over facts and ideas, and cowards among the broader public who willingly allow these steady encroacments on our freedom in the name of “fighting terror.”
24. Information Terrorists? 
    The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
25. Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing government and corporate wrongdoing.
26. New wave of attacks on freedom of information
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under wa, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests, and abusive treatment in detention as Egyptian authorities maintain their campaign of repression.
27. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
28. PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department.
29. Slick Water
    Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
30. The Socialist Register 1981
    Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
31. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
32. Truth in Chains
    The Arrest of Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
33. The Truth Will Always Win
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
34. WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the face of an unprecedented campaign of US harassment and intimidation, the Internet-based WikiLeaks group is continuing its efforts to expose the predatory role of American foreign policy around the world, releasing secret diplomatic documents every day.

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