Tim Pelzer

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Pelzer

• World

  

  Canadians fight voter suppression efforts

  March 21, 2014 By Tim Pelzer

  Opposition continues to grow against efforts by the right-wing Conservative government of Stephen Harper to impose voter suppression legislation in Canada.  

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• World

  

  Canadian right trying to copycat U.S.-style voter suppression

  February 26, 2014 By Tim Pelzer

  The right-wing Conservative Party government of Stephen Harper is trying to push through U.S. Republican-style voter suppression legislation in Canada.

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• World

  

  Community self-defense groups confront Mexico’s drug cartels

  February 3, 2014 By Tim Pelzer

  An armed insurgency is emerging across Mexico. However, rather than being a movement to overthrow a government, it aims to defend communities and combat drug cartels.

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• World

  

  New left-wing party forms in Mexico

  January 15, 2014 By Tim Pelzer

  A new left-wing party led by former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will soon appear on the ballot in Mexico.

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• World

  

  Mexican lawmakers OK privatization of nation’s oil industry

  December 19, 2013 By Tim Pelzer

  The measure will allow foreign multinational corporations to explore, drill and sell Mexican oil and gas.

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• Environment

  

  Oil sands are Canada’s environmental nightmare

  November 25, 2013 By Tim Pelzer

  Oil companies have not yet fulfilled promises to develop new technologies to treat toxic water in the tailing ponds, and fears exist that this dirty water will sit there for decades, leaking toxic water.  

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• World

  

  Canadians sue spy agency over secret surveillance

  October 28, 2013 By Tim Pelzer

   As with the National Security Agency in the United States, Canada's spy agency, has come under fire after it was revealed that the agency is illegally spying on Canadians.

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• Arts

  

  “In Organic We Trust” exposes falsely organic foods

  October 21, 2013 By Tim Pelzer

  Many food items claiming to be organic really are not, says Kip Pastor, who puts the U.S. food industry under a microscope in this well made, engrossing documentary.

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