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Today in irony: Conservative facebook post may violate the government’s own proposed anti-terror law Article from CTV News Even some Conservatives say the party’s Facebook post promoting its anti-terrorism bill, using an image of a Somali militant and a quote threatening an attack on the West Edmonton Mall, was over

Want to learn more about secret police Bill C-51? Check out this great expert analysis by Voices-Voix What Happened Since the fall of 2014, the Harper government has introduced two significant bills to amend the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and other national security related legislation, identified as Bill C-51

A few years back, we told Vic Toews everything. Now, the government wants even more spying on our private lives. Tell them to back off at https://openmedia.org/stopc51/  

WATCH LIVE: Edward Snowden and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression talk security, privacy, and the surveillance state in Canada with the CBC’s Anna Maria Tremonti. You can also keep up with the questions with the #AskSnowden hashtag on Twitter. Click here to watch the talk live from the CBC read

Big news: tomorrow at 9:00 AM Pacific time (12:00 PM Eastern), Edward Snowden and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression will be doing a live question and answer session with the CBC. Since he blew the whistle on mass NSA spying on American citizens in 2013, Edward Snowden has received world-wide

Could disagreeing with the government land scholars in hot water under Bill C-51? Article by Kawmadie Karunanayake for The Varsity For the average Netflix-watching, Tumblr-scrolling Internet user, Bill C-51 doesn’t pose much of a problem. Though the new anti-terror legislation would effectively limit privacy rights for all Canadians, most people

Secret police Bill C-51 could take us down a very dangerous path. Help steer the government in the right direction at https://openmedia.org/spyonus Article by John Barber for The Guardian More than 100 Canadian law professors have warned the prime minister, Stephen Harper, that a sweeping new anti-terror law introduced by his

One of the big concerns we hear from our community is that there’s no-one in parliament that speaks Internet. Well, here at OpenMedia, we work day in and day out to inject Internet voices into democratic processes to ensure that the government hears our ideas and addresses our concerns. This

Principled Conservative blogger Connie Fournier details why she is against the government’s secret police Bill C-51. By Connie Fournier Much has been said recently about the “anti-terrorism” Bill C-51 that is currently being debated in the House of Commons. I have been quite vocal about the fact that I oppose this Bill,

Academics speak out against secret police Bill C-51. Article from The National Post Dear Members of Parliament, Please accept this collective open letter as an expression of the signatories’ deep concern that Bill C-51 (which the government is calling the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015) is a dangerous piece of legislation in

Why is CSE storing millions of emails that Canadians send to the government? Article by Nicole Bogart for Global Canada’s electronic spy agency collects and stores millions of emails sent to the government to check for malware and suspicious links, according to documents obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. But experts are concerned

Don’t miss this amazing live Q&A session with @CJFE and Edward Snowden – Wednesday, March 4 from 12 PM – 2 PM ET (9 AM – 12 PM PT). You can submit questions using the hashtag #AskSnowden on Twitter.  SNOWDEN LIVE: CANADA AND THE SECURITY STATE Join CJFE for a