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Cops, spies and journalists: Top Mountie Bob Paulson speaks out

May 18, 2016

Cops, spies and journalists: Top Mountie Bob Paulson speaks out Spying by officers was not approved, RCMP commissioner says – so officers kept asking In a broad and candid statement to CBC News, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson explains why (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) Terry Milewski has worked in fifty countries during 38 years with the CBC. […]

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Canada Steps Out of Peacekeeper Role and into the Unknown

May 25, 2015

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 […]

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CSE worried about how its use of Canadian metadata might be viewed

April 22, 2015

CSE worried about how its use of Canadian metadata might be viewed Questions over spy agency’s definition of ‘tracking Canadians’ Canada’s electronic spy agency fretted over how its collection of cellphone and email metadata might be perceived even before CBC published a story on the agency using Wi-Fi data to track airport passengers, new documents obtained by CBC […]

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NEW CANADIAN COUNTERTERRORISM LAW THREATENS ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS

March 30, 2015

NEW CANADIAN COUNTERTERRORISM LAW THREATENS ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS Geraldine Thomas-Flurer, who campaigns for environmental protection on behalf of indigenous First Nations in Canada, wasn’t surprised when, in 2012, she found out that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been keeping tabs on her. The Toronto Star that year obtained documents showing that federal police had monitored private meetings […]

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What You’ll Have to Do to Stay Under the Radar if Bill C-51 Becomes Law

March 23, 2015

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 […]

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Bill C-51 ‘Day of Action’ protests denounce new policing powers

March 14, 2015

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 […]

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Let’s Not Sacrifice Freedom Out Of Fear

March 4, 2015

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 […]

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Tory Bill To Boost CSIS Spying Powers Abroad Is Constitutional, Official Says

November 25, 2014

Tory Bill To Boost CSIS Spying Powers Abroad Is Constitutional, Official Says. (Reuters) – Scuffles erupted after Hong Kong authorities cleared part of a pro-democracy protest camp in the bustling district of Mong Kok on Tuesday following a court order to reopen a road, with several demonstrators taken away in police vans. The gritty, working-class […]

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Canada Hit by Blowback |

October 26, 2014

Canada Hit by Blowback |. On October 16,press reports informed us that Canada was about to “update” its national security legislation to, you guessed it, better fight terrorism. Specifically, this new legislation is ostensibly designed to not only better counter actual terrorism, but “potential” terrorism: “Canada’s Minister of Public Safety joined justice ministers from across the country in […]

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Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That ‘A Terrorist’ Attacked Its Soldiers – The Intercept

October 22, 2014

Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That ‘A Terrorist’ Attacked Its Soldiers – The Intercept. (updated below – Update II) TORONTO – In Quebec on Monday, two Canadian soldiers were hit by a car driven by Martin Couture-Rouleau, a 25-year-old Canadian who, as The Globe and Mail reported, “converted to Islam recently and called himself Ahmad Rouleau.” One […]

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