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Secret Bans, Secret Trials: The Canadian ‘No-Fly’ Lists
Secret Bans, Secret Trials: The Canadian ‘No-Fly’ Lists First in a series to help you participate in the federal consultation on national security. Protesters opposing Bill C-51 in Vancouver last year. Now they can tell the government what changes are needed. Jeremy Board, Creative Commons licensed. [Editor’s note: The federal government’s consultation on national security provides a rare […]
Privacy Advocates Fear Bill C-51 Consultations Will Be Skewed
Privacy Advocates Fear Bill C-51 Consultations Will Be Skewed Backgrounder on national security written to address policy concerns, not the public’s, says OpenMedia. The Liberal government has announced wide-ranging consultations on national security, including Bill C-51. Photo by Kent Lins, Creative Commons licensed. A Liberal government plan to hold public consultations on national security including changes […]
Post Paris, Are Canada’s Internet Privacy Laws at Risk?
Post Paris, Are Canada’s Internet Privacy Laws at Risk? Attacks may renew calls to go beyond Bill C-51 and restrict encryption technologies. The Paris attacks have also escalated calls to reconsider plans to reform Canadian privacy and surveillance law, a key election promise from the Trudeau government. Photo by Garry Knight, Creative Commons licensed. As […]
Canada Steps Out of Peacekeeper Role and into the Unknown
Canada Steps Out of Peacekeeper Role and into the Unknown The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), intelligence, and border surveillance agencies have drawn hundreds of millions of dollars to “combat terrorism” in a federal budget that made special reference to the murder of two Canadian soldiers in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Ottawa last October. While there is […]
Sorry Liberals, ‘Oversight’ Won’t Fix Menace of a Terror Bill
Sorry Liberals, ‘Oversight’ Won’t Fix Menace of a Terror Bill Party’s position on C-51 is downright surreal, and solution to fix it equally flawed. The House of Commons sent Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, to the Senate on Wednesday, where it is expected to quickly pass and become law. One-hundred-and-eighty-three Conservatives and Liberals voted in […]
Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons
Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons Passed third reading by a margin of 183 to 96 The federal government’s controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won the approval of the House of Commons. The Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51, easily passed third reading by a margin of 183 to 96, thanks to the […]
Bill C-51 opposition tweeted by Margaret Atwood, Sarah Harmer
Bill C-51 opposition tweeted by Margaret Atwood, Sarah Harmer Liberals say they’ll vote in favour of Bill C-51, despite hoping for changes Canadian author Margaret Atwood and singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer are voicing complaints about the Conservatives’ proposed anti-terrorism bill, asking Liberal MPs from their communities to vote against it. In particular, Harmer and Atwood have got their backs up […]
What You’ll Have to Do to Stay Under the Radar if Bill C-51 Becomes Law
What You’ll Have to Do to Stay Under the Radar if Bill C-51 Becomes Law Bill C-51 is an omnibus anti-terrorism bill that grants CSIS new information sharing powers and converts CSIS from a covertintelligence gathering organization to acovert enforcement agency. No wonder Canadians don’t know what the heck is going on! Ms. Soapbox is here to […]
Bill C-51 ‘Day of Action’ protests denounce new policing powers
Bill C-51 ‘Day of Action’ protests denounce new policing powers NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May join protests in Montreal, Toronto Protests are underway across Canada against the government’s proposed anti-terrorism legislation, which would give police much broader powers and allow them to detain terror suspects and give new powers to Canada’s spy […]
Edward Snowden Calls Canadian Intelligence Oversight Among ‘Weakest’ In Western World
Edward Snowden Calls Canadian Intelligence Oversight Among ‘Weakest’ In Western World U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden criticized the inadequate oversight of Canada’s intelligence operations on Wednesday, calling its framework “one of the weakest” in the Western world. In a live chat moderated by CBC Radio host Anna Maria Tremonti, Snowden touched on the […]
Let’s Not Sacrifice Freedom Out Of Fear
Let’s Not Sacrifice Freedom Out Of Fear A scientist, or any knowledgeable person, will tell you climate change is a serious threat for Canada and the world. But theRCMP has a different take. A secret report by the national police force, obtained by Greenpeace, both minimizes the threat of global warming and conjures a spectre of threats […]
Bill C-51 aims to ‘remove terrorist propaganda’ from internet
Bill C-51 aims to ‘remove terrorist propaganda’ from internet Free speech, privacy concerns raised about anti-terrorism bill’s internet clauses The anti-terrorism bill unveiled Friday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper includes a section that gives his government the power “to order the removal of terrorist propaganda” from the internet. That would still require a judicial order, […]
