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Canadians Are F**ked: Secret RCMP Report
Canadians Are F**ked: Secret RCMP Report A previously secret (and still heavily redacted) RCMP report warns the Canadian government to expect civil unrest once citizens realize how totally screwed the economic situation is, the National Post reports. “The coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier […]
Five Arrested at Fairy Creek Old Growth Blockade
Five Arrested at Fairy Creek Old Growth Blockade ‘Protracted stand-off’ predicted. Barred journalists ask court to rule RCMP ‘exclusionary zone’ illegal. Members of the Fairy Creek Blockade earlier this spring, when an in-depth Tyee article reported why they risked arrest to oppose Teal-Jones timber company logging on one of Vancouver Island’s last old-growth watersheds. Photo by Ken Dawson. […]
RCMP Secret Facial Recognition Tool Looked for Matches with 700,000 ‘Terrorists’
RCMP Secret Facial Recognition Tool Looked for Matches with 700,000 ‘Terrorists’ Emails expose the BC force’s previously unknown purchase, which broke rules. Critics worry about privacy, racial profiling and false positives. Documents obtained by The Tyee identify the BC RCMP as IntelCenter’s first publicly revealed facial recognition service client. The firm’s military, intelligence and law […]
Privacy Commissioner Launches Investigation of RCMP Internet Unit
Privacy Commissioner Launches Investigation of RCMP Internet Unit The probe comes after Tyee reports on Project Wide Awake and web spying. Here are some questions to pose to the force. A series of Tyee reports unmasking social media spying efforts by the RCMP spurred NDP MP Charlie Angus to call for a federal investigation. Illustration by […]
Keying off Tyee RCMP Revelations, MP Angus Wants an Investigation
Keying off Tyee RCMP Revelations, MP Angus Wants an Investigation Exposé on Project Wide Awake web spying adds reasons to consider changing privacy law, Angus says. NDP MP Charlie Angus says Monday’s Tyee report showed an RCMP ‘fast and loose with basic principles of jurisprudence and justice.’ Photo via Shutterstock. Revelations in The Tyee’s recent report on […]
FOI Documents Confirm RCMP Falsely Denied Using Facial Recognition Software
FOI Documents Confirm RCMP Falsely Denied Using Facial Recognition Software Its contract with Clearview AI started in October, but the force was still denying using the controversial technology three months later. The RCMP denied using facial recognition software on Canadians three months after it had entered into a contract with controversial U.S. company Clearview AI, […]
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports Newspaper cites planning documents that called for ‘lethal overwatch’ to ensure pipeline built. The RCMP were prepared to use snipers with shoot-to-kill orders when they launched a raid to remove Indigenous protesters slowing pipeline construction in Wet’suwet’en territory, the Guardian reported today. The exclusive […]
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 […]
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp In Canada, armed forces raided native Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia Monday, with at least 14 arrests being reported. Land defenders faced off with Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the police breached two checkpoints set up to keep pipeline workers out […]
Neil Macdonald: Government sensitivity over you hearing about ‘sensitive’ information
Neil Macdonald: Government sensitivity over you hearing about ‘sensitive’ information Deputy minister calls in the RCMP after media leaks at her department Canadian democracy has, we are told, been maliciously undermined at Citizenship and Immigration, and the department’s top public servant is determined to set things right, on behalf of the Canadian people. Deputy Minister […]
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 […]
NEW CANADIAN COUNTERTERRORISM LAW THREATENS ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS
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 […]
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 […]
Canadian police say Valentine’s Day mass shooting plot foiled
Canadian police say Valentine’s Day mass shooting plot foiled TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian police said on Friday they foiled a plot in which at least two people allegedly planned to commit a mass shooting in the East Coast province of Nova Scotia on Valentine’s Day. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement the […]
