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The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Canada, immigration raids and deportations are not entertainment!
It was revealed last month that Vic Toews, Canada’s Public Safety Minister, approved the raid, carried out for the Canada Border Services Agency’s reality television series.After the revelation, the BC Civil Liberties Association filed a formal complaint with the federal Privacy Commissioner on behalf of the migrant worker who was filmed. “Federal
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Supreme Court hears laptops and cell phones search and seizure case
By: BC Civil Liberties Association | Press Release: OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will be hearing arguments on March 27, 2013 in R. v. Vu. The Court will look at whether a search warrant for documents can also allow the search and seizure of personal computers and mobile phones
Continue readingImpolitical: A pattern to Jason Kenney’s online petition data mining
This story today rang a bell for me: “Jason Kenney’s office mined online petition to target message to gay Canadians.” Kenney’s office has done this before. About two years ago, I received an email from a long time reader of my blog outlining a similar email that they had received,
Continue readingImpolitical: Toews and all his eavesdropping
We have learned this week that the Canada Border Services Agency, under the leadership of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, will be seeking to audio record what travellers are saying in their cars at border crossings and in person at airports. See this report in the Toronto Star yesterday, for
Continue readingImpolitical: Harper’s extra-Parliamentary internet surveillance committee
This news is a new low in the Harper government’s ongoing debasement of Parliament’s role in Canadian democracy: In the months leading up to the introduction Bill C-30, Canada’s telecom companies worked actively with government officials to identify key issues and to develop a secret industry-government collaborative forum on lawful
Continue readingImpolitical: A House of Commons marker laid down for the C-30 rewrite
This was the text of a motion passed in the House of Commons last night. The motion was brought by Liberals with a view to the coming debate at committee over C-30, the Conservatives’ proposed and invasive internet surveillance legislation: That the House recognize: (a) the fundamental right of all
Continue readingImpolitical: The right thing to do
Case closed: Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae says one of his staffers was responsible for a series of anonymous Internet attacks aimed at Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. “I was advised yesterday that an employee of the Liberal research bureau in fact is responsible,” the chagrined Liberal leader told the
Continue readingImpolitical: Late night
“The state has no business in the hard drives of the nation.” You go, Rick Mercer!
Continue readingImpolitical: Keeping an eye on the ball that is C-30
More on C-30 here. On the one hand, there was this presentation from a Vancouver police official yesterday: “People need to focus and keep their eye on the ball,” said Warren Lemcke, Vancouver’s deputy chief constable. “We can’t monitor your e-mails. We can’t monitor your phone calls. We can’t monitor
Continue readingImpolitical: Conservatives against online spying & other notes
There is a letter cross-posted at OpenMedia.ca that has been sent to the members of the conservative Free Dominion site. It’s essentially an appeal for the Conservative base to contact their MPs and encourage them to speak out against C-30. This online spying legislation is antithetical to core conservative principles
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When The Right-Wing Offends The Right-Wing
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Continue readingImpolitical: Backtracking on #C30?
A quick post on the day’s events….in the wake of the tremendous backlash to the Conservative internet surveillance legislation, the Harper crew are making noises about amendments to C-30. See “Government willing to consider changes to online surveillance bill,” for example, where Conservative MPs Williamson, Anders and Tilson are cited
Continue readingImpolitical: El busto
Opinion is lining up firmly against the Harper government’s internet surveillance legislation. Harris: “Bill aimed at internet predators empowers Big Brother government.” The only thing that separates a democratic state from a police state is the notion of accountability. Police powers are restrained under the due process of our judicial
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Conservatives Insult Canadians’ Intelligence Once Again
While the Harper government has repeatedly shown its contempt for facts and statistics as it treads its demagogic path with abandon, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has achieved a new low. In language almost identical to that of George Bush after the terrorist attacks in New York, the Harper minion
Continue readingImpolitical: Disgraceful
A Conservative minister stated this in the House of Commons: But when Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia attacked the Conservatives for “preparing to read Canadians’ emails and track their movements through cellphone signals” – which does appear to be a severe distortion of the bill’s powers – Mr. Toews’s counterattack was
Continue readingImpolitical: Exposing the fakery matters
On the news of the fake citizenship reaffirmation ceremony hosted at Sun News at the urging of Jason Kenney’s office, Chris Selley of the National Post concluded this about the episode last week: “But that’s just the usual stuff and nonsense. I don’t see how any of it makes a
Continue readingImpolitical: (Un)Lawful Access
This looks like a great event for those in Vancouver on January 12th: (Un)Lawful Access: Premiere & Panel Discussion. It’s a premiere of a mini-documentary on the Harper government’s coming lawful access legislation. Additionally, the BC Civil Liberties Association is releasing a report they’ve done on the proposed law. Here’s
Continue readingImpolitical: Cotler incident may harm Conservative case for lawful access legislation
In the wake of the Speaker’s privilege ruling yesterday, the Conservatives are saying that “there will be no more phone calls to voters in Cotler’s riding, spreading the word that he was about to step down.” Take that for whatever it’s worth from these Conservatives. Until they’re caught in the
Continue readingImpolitical: Trackable you
Tell the kids to become experts in data management, more news in the form of yesterday’s Canada-U.S. deal that says there’s going to be a lot of use for the skill in the Canada of the near future. The tracking of exits from the country is a brand new feature
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