Unbelievable news? Read it again and you might think it's true
Dec 06, 2016 06:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In the weeks since the U.S. election, concerns have been raised about the prominence and popularity of false news stories spread on platforms such as Facebook. A BuzzFeed analysis found that the top 20 false election...
10 ways the tech industry and the media helped create President Trump
Dec 02, 2016 05:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Three weeks after Donald Trump won a historic victory to become the 45th president of the United States, the media postmortems continue. In particular, the role played by the media and technology industries is coming...
Impeding Trump Inauguration Prompts Internet Archivists To Seek Asylum in Canada
Nov 30, 2016 10:07 am UTC| Commentary Politics
The internet is a pretty big place and contains a lot of information. Since it would be difficult to find all this information on ones own, archivists gather all existing data to organize them and make searching for...
US Election Series: Wisconsin denies Jill Stein’s request for hand count
Nov 29, 2016 10:07 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Wisconsin Elections Commission Chairman, Mark Thomsen, a Democrat, announced earlier that the committee would follow through with Steins recount request but denied a request that the recount be conducted by hand. According...
US Election Series: How much votes Clinton needs to win to turn the outcome?
Nov 28, 2016 10:04 am UTC| Commentary Politics
It is now official that Hillary Clintons campaign will support the recount effort in key battleground states. On Saturday, in a post on Medium, Marc Elias, the Clinton teams general counsel, said the campaign would take...
US Election Series: Clinton backs Stein’s recount, America closer to chaos
Nov 28, 2016 05:58 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Over the weekend, Hillary Clintons campaign said that they would join Green Party candidate Jill Steins petition to recount the votes in Wisconsin and would also join recount process in two other key battleground states;...
US Election Series: Jill Stein raises $4.5 million to challenge election outcome
Nov 25, 2016 07:29 am UTC| Commentary
This years green party candidate Jill Stein has raised about $4.5 million via crowdfunding and looking to raise more in order to challenge the outcomes of the election in several key swing states. She is planning to...
The Alberta government is interfering in public sector bargaining on an unprecedented scale
Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants