Articles by John Bell
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Apr 04, 2013: Idle No More calls for June 21 Million First People’s MarchWe can expect more Idle No More actions through the spring, as First Nations directly challenge the anti-environmental policies of...
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Mar 23, 2013: Idle No More inspires Quest For UnityInspired by the upsurge of First Nations activism under the banner of Idle No More, six young people and a...
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Mar 23, 2013: Anti-immigrant infomercial brought to you by PMOThe Harper Tories are not getting enough bang for their buck.
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Mar 20, 2013: Indigenous sovereignty and solidarity leads fight against Harper agenda"Idle No More has sparked an awakening of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples internationally in support for democracy, human rights and...
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Mar 20, 2013: Stephen Harper’s war against First NationsStephen Harper’s war against First Nations by John Bell Tory extortion This year the annual transfer payments from Ottawa to...
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Mar 08, 2013: Idle No More: First Nations women lead the way"A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground" --Cheyenne proverb.
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Mar 02, 2013: The fall of FlanaganThere are people whose actions and ideas make them the enemies of social progress–those who dedicate themselves to supporting, advancing...
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Feb 25, 2013: Stephen Harper's moral crusadeStephen Harper has created the Office of Religious Freedom within the Department of Foreign Affairs.
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Feb 21, 2013: Double-bunking: Harper's 'solution' to prison overcrowdingA new directive from the Harper Tories clears the way for Canadian prisons to put two inmates in cells designed...
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Feb 21, 2013: Historic protest demands end of Keystone pipelineIt was surely no accident that, while as many as 50,000 protesters converged in Washington to demand an end to...
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Feb 07, 2013: Idle No More continuesIdle No More was always about more than Chief Theresa Spence’s fast.
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Feb 06, 2013: Unity threatens Tories' tar sandsThe concept of divide and rule has been around a long time, no doubt as long as human society has...
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Jan 26, 2013: Django Unchained: a vivid, violent anti-racist fantasyFull disclosure.
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Jan 05, 2013: Fracking dangerousThere is a fortune of fossil fuel underfoot, wherever a layer of shale rock forms part of the bedrock.
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Jan 03, 2013: Venezuela left sweeps electionsEven as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s cancer had worsened, candidates from his Socialist Party took 20 out of 23 state...
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Dec 31, 2012: When history means managing the messageAs I write Stephen Harper continues to ignore the hunger strike of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence.
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Dec 15, 2012: Sandy Hook: tragedy and perspectiveThe mass shooting at the Connecticut elementary school that left at least 27 dead, including 20 children, has rightly horrified...
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Dec 02, 2012: Global warming talks: Why Doha will do nothingA few people have been making a lot of money building new communities along the North Carolina coast.
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Nov 30, 2012: Haiti: Sandy's forgotten victimsWhile North American eyes were fixed on the damage done to New York City by hurricane Sandy, the already devastated...
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Nov 26, 2012: Down the rabbit hole - into a pipelineA few weeks ago Michael Harris at the iPolitics news web reported on the case of Jill Winzoski, freelance reporter...