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Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media
Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media Surveillance is going ahead without oversight or accountability, for one. You should care, even be scared, by The Tyee’s reports on the RCMP’s “Operation Wide Awake,” a secretive and unsupervised social media monitoring operation. We’re already deep into a new era. Police — and businesses […]
RCMP Has Yet to Complete Privacy Assessment on Social Media Surveillance Tech
RCMP Has Yet to Complete Privacy Assessment on Social Media Surveillance Tech Calling ‘Project Wide Awake’ a test lets police dodge assessments, says BCCLA. An RCMP spokesperson said the “Project Wide Awake” program is still in the design stage — which is short of “official” implementation that requires a report on effects to personal privacy. Micheal […]
How Citizens Can Stop the Big Five’s Disastrous Fossil Fuel Funding
How Citizens Can Stop the Big Five’s Disastrous Fossil Fuel Funding Canada’s major banks have financed $464 billion worth of fossil fuel projects since 2016. My first bank account was with RBC, back when they were still into being called “Royal.” I didn’t so much as choose them as just follow my parents, like you […]
Throwing Money at Media Won’t Fix Canada’s News Deficit
Throwing Money at Media Won’t Fix Canada’s News Deficit We need to reform government so citizens have a reason to care, and slash secrecy that prevents journalists from doing their jobs. But as one of this country’s digital journalism pioneers (I founded a popular online investigative news site called Public Eye before such ventures became fashionable), I […]
RCMP’s Social Media Surveillance Symptom of Broad Threat to Privacy, Says BCCLA
RCMP’s Social Media Surveillance Symptom of Broad Threat to Privacy, Says BCCLA Micheal Vonn isn’t surprised by RCMP’s ‘Project Wide Awake’ — but she’s worried. It’s not surprising the RCMP is using sophisticated software to monitor the social media activities of Canadians, said Micheal Vonn, policy director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. But it […]
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay Auditor general says oil and gas commission hasn’t ensured companies will pay cleanup costs. The polluter-pay approach isn’t working in British Columbia’s oil and gas patch. The province’s energy regulator hasn’t secured enough money from companies to cover the estimated $3-billion cleanup costs for 10,672 inactive […]
Alberta’s Mega Oil and Gas Liability Crisis, Explained
Alberta’s Mega Oil and Gas Liability Crisis, Explained A Supreme Court ruling now forces firms to clean up abandoned wells before paying creditors. That doesn’t solve much. Just how will an increasingly indebted industry, hobbled by low energy prices and rising costs, find the up to $260 billion needed to clean up its inactive pipelines, wells, plants […]
When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police
When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police It’s become routine, but ignores latest law on rights and title, say experts. RCMP action against the Wet’suwet’en last week was intended to send a message, says professor Jeffrey Monaghan. Photo by Michael Toledano. The use of heavily armed RCMP to enforce a court injunction and tear […]
BC Energy Minister on Her Site C Reversal: No Regrets
BC Energy Minister on Her Site C Reversal: No Regrets Michelle Mungall once firmly opposed the mega-dam. Now she’s a powerful figure in a ‘complicated’ party. Critics criticize. But once you’re in government, says Energy Minister Michelle Mungall, ‘It’s not so easy to put your mark in the sand and say it’s never going to […]
Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline?
Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline? Challenge to energy project’s approval brings threats to Smithers activist. Smithers resident Michael Sawyer claims the Coastal GasLink project lacks the required federal approvals and wants the National Energy Board to review it. Photo by Dan Mesec. The $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline may face a bigger threat than the […]
