{"id":6506,"date":"2015-03-14T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2015-03-14T18:56:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:56:25","slug":"bill-c-51-day-of-action-protests-denounce-new-policing-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6506","title":{"rendered":"Bill C-51 &#8216;Day of Action&#8217; protests denounce new policing powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/bill-c-51-day-of-action-protests-denounce-new-policing-powers-1.2994226\" target=\"_blank\">Bill C-51 &#8216;Day of Action&#8217; protests denounce new policing powers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May join protests in Montreal, Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protests are underway\u00a0across Canada against the government&#8217;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&#8217;s spy agency.<\/p>\n<p>NDP\u00a0leader Tom Mulcair\u00a0joined hundreds In Montreal in a march through the city. One protester held up a poster saying &#8220;C-51 is an act of terror,&#8221;\u00a0while others carried red &#8220;Stop Harper&#8221; signs.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was expected to end in front of the riding office ofLiberal Leader Justin Trudeau. Trudeau has said his caucus will vote\u00a0in favour of the bill.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/bill-c-51-hearings-diane-ablonczy-s-questions-to-muslim-group-mccarthyesque-1.2993531\">Bill C-51 hearings: Diane\u00a0Ablonczy&#8217;s\u00a0questions to Muslim group &#8216;McCarthyesque&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/bill-c-51-committee-hears-monologues-but-few-questions-1.2992615\">Anti-terror\u00a0bill committee hears monologues, but few questions<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/bill-c-51-privacy-watchdog-daniel-therrien-blocked-from-committee-witness-list-1.2991265\">Privacy watchdog blocked from witness list<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/proposed-csis-powers-a-constitutional-mess-former-watchdog-warns-1.2991660\">Proposed\u00a0CSIS\u00a0powers a &#8216;constitutional mess,&#8217; says ex-watchdog<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NDP\u00a0MPs\u00a0Craig Scott and Linda Duncan were part of the crowd gathered\u00a0outside Canada Place in downtown Edmonton. Some placards\u00a0called the bill &#8220;criminalization\u00a0of dissent&#8221; and warned &#8220;big brother is watching you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Protesters said they are worried the bill will be used to harass or\u00a0silence critics of government&#8217;s environmental and aboriginal policies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill C-51 &#8216;Day of Action&#8217; protests denounce new policing powers NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May join protests in Montreal, Toronto Protests are underway\u00a0across Canada against the government&#8217;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&#8217;s spy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4167,3083,3915,103,186,3484,4169,657,749,4168],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-anti-terror-bill","tag-bill-c-51","tag-bill-c51","tag-canada","tag-csis","tag-dissent","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-protests","tag-stephen-harper","tag-tom-mclair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}