Archive by month: May 2013

RCMP and Industry Canada IP Addresses Found To Be Downloading Torrents

May 17, 2022

There has been some buzz recently surrounding the Montreal corporation Canipre, an organization which claims to perform "Canadian Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement." In light of the methods Canipre is using to attempt to enforce intellectual property rights, we thought it was time to renew our hunt to see if we could find copyright infringement in other parts of our government. Last year, the Pirate Party of Canada found evidence of copyright infringement from inside the House of Commons....
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Lets talk about Mincome

May 15, 2022

While I was going through our new policy points of the Pirate Party of Canada one by one. One policy in particular caught my eye and intrigued me. This was a policy that made so much sense that the only thing that does not make sense is why the government isnt already doing it! That policy that caught my eye was Mincome (a portmanteau of Minimum Income). Of course it goes by many other names Guarnteed Annual Income, Negative Income Tax, Basic Income, Basic Income Guarentee, but no matter what na...
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Pirate Party is Pleased To Announce New Policy

May 6, 2022

Toronto - The Pirate Party of Canada is launching it's first comprehensive policy, with topics ranging from defence to health, we want to better represent Canadians and give a clear picture as to what our party is about. "The Pirate Party is a progressive movement, and it is time that our party step up and outline what it is that we stand for." States party leader, Travis McCrea. "Mincome was effective before, and other basic income programs are showing success internationally; Drug patents a...
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Transparency and Truth in Food Labeling

May 6, 2022

When citizens are informed, they make better choices. In the same way, The Pirate Party of Canada recognizes that for an open market to thrive the choice of the consumer is paramount. With increasing health concerns such as serious allergies, uncertainty of the long-term health effects of GMOs, and deadly food contamination, transparency and truth in food labeling is important to protect the health of the Canadian citizen. Use of vague and misleading labels such as “natural flavours” should be...
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Make Employment Insurance Fairer

May 5, 2022

Employment Insurance premiums make up big part of regular deductions on a worker's paycheques. Hard working Canadians pay the premium with expectation that it is their insurance should they lose their job. It is important to preserve that trust by making sure workers are paid the entitled amount promptly when the needs arise. We will make sure funds for Employment Insurance are managed responsibly and all efforts are made to avoid cutting of benefits during times of economic downturn or increas...
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Show Me What Democracy Looks Like

May 1, 2022

As a minor party in Canada, life is tough, we have limited funds and resources and have to nearly exclusively rely on word of mouth. To help raise awareness of our party, and to help spread the message of what we do, we send out press releases to about 500 different papers and journalists across Canada. Most of the time, these go unanswered and unreported on. It happens, we are a minor party and these papers have topics that will appeal to the mainstream more and sell more papers. Many of th...
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