So remember how the Cons withdrew their just-tabled internet surveillance bill, the Lawful Access Act, on Feb 14 and replaced it an hour and 15 minutes later with the identical but renamed Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, a bill which mentions neither children nor predators? Coincidentally, the US Protecting
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Campaign Research Con cats are out of the bag
> Campaign Research client and House Speaker Andrew Scheer ruled it “reprehensible” while Campaign Research client and Con House Leader Peter Van Loan defended it as “vital free speech”, but Campaign Research cofounder Nick Kouvalis put it best when he described his firm’s now infamous phone calls to Lib MP
Continue readingEverybody loves a SIRCus
> In response to media reports that CSIS had been complicit in the detention of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik in Sudan, outgoing CSIS director Jim Judd requested that CSIS watchdog and review panel, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, “investigate and report on the performance of the Service’s [CSIS’s] duties and
Continue readingG20 investigation: RCMP spies vs conspirators
> The JIG is up. An RCMP-led Joint Intelligence Group comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call “one of the largest domestic intelligence operations in Canadian history”. Constable Bindo Showan of the Ontario Provincial Police, one
Continue readingOutsource This! Boeing and Lockheed Martin war machines ‘full of fake Chinese parts’
> The Telegraph : Thousands of U.S. warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Senate committee. In total, the committee said it had found more than a…
Continue readingTransCanada : an "American company"
Hey, did you think that TransCanada, the company intending to extend the Keystone XL pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to the Free Tariff Zone refineries in Texas, was a Canadian company? Me too. Must be something about that name. And the fact…
Continue readingOur "world class" tarsands PR monitoring plan
This week saw our federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers, minus Ontario, trot out a joint communique describing the tarsands as "sustainable and responsible", even as the Cons were simultaneously slashing the federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency budget by 43% and its staff by…
Continue readingSeconded …
To the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: I am writing to you as a last resort. I realize this is a very long shot, but I have no other recourse. The Canadian government has been hiding…
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