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Trans Pacific Partnership

Stealing medicine from the sick and the poor

If the Canadian government has its way, life saving medication may be soon out of reach for the poorest of the world's citizens. Since 2010, Stephen Harper's government has been quietly negotiating...

Sign the StopTheTrap petition, hot off the presses from San Diego

On Thursday of last week, we at OpenMedia made a call to a print shop in San Diego, which responded to our order with an "..oh!". Well over one thousand pages (double sided, and in a reasonably small...

Canada locked out of new trans-Pacific trading block

But we'd like to be let in. And it looks like Harper is trying to get that to happen.