The Secret Trial 5, director Amar Wala’s first feature, is an engaging and enraging look at five men labelled security risks by the Canadian government and detained without trial for a combined total of 30 years in prison, and another 20 years (and counting) under strict house arrest. Shot over
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Does the terrorist threat justify the snooping? Not according to the stats
British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking about the need for mass surveillance of communications, talked about keeping concerns about civil liberties “in proportion.” Perhaps what should be kept in proportion is his enthusiasm for mass snooping. Mr. Cameron and other national leaders justify their obsession about security and its attendant
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: C-24 In Conjunction With C-23 As Instruments Of Voter Suppression
There has been a lot of attention on Bill C-23 the last week or so, and in particular the parts of it which appear to be tools that can be used for voter suppression. In discussing the Voter ID requirements of Bill C-23, I became very concerned that this government
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Caught in an apparent conflict like Chuck Strahl? No problem! Just double down!
Manning Centre-Security Intelligence Review Committee Chair and Enbridge lobbyist Chuck Strahl. Below: Former would-be Reform Party prime minister Preston Manning; Reform Party prime minister in waiting Jason Kenney. All these slightly out-of-focus profile shots were taken by your blogger during his infiltration of the 2013 Manning Centre conference in Ottawa. When
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Under Canadian terrorism laws, Mandela would be considered a terrorist
by: Obert Madondo Its ironic, isn’t it? Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the leader of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition, four provincial premiers, three former prime minister, two former governors general, MPs, a senator, and the head of the Assembly of First Nations, are in South Africa to convey of our collective last respects to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: FINTRAC collecting personal banking information of innocent Canadians
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart accuses FINTRAC of collecting the personal banking information of thousands of innocent Canadians. The post FINTRAC collecting personal banking information of innocent Canadians appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: My take on Line 9
Over the last year, there has been a huge amount of debate over Enbridge wanting to reverse the flow of oil in a major pipeline — “Line 9” — from east to west, to west to east. The claim has been made that an already fractured pipeline could become even
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: MexAmeriCanada, Version 2013
Welcome to the United States of MexAmeriCanada. Represent! I was just thinking a few days ago how I haven’t used the MexAmeriCanada tag for a while. Did I cause this to happen, in some cosmic kind of way? In the old days it was Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE MISSING TERRORIST SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS
In April of this year the RCMP announced that they had uncovered a bio-terrorist threat involving two Canadian scientists working for the innocuous sounding: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The agency itself had been in the news lately due to regulatory failures leading to a number of food poising cases from bacterial outbreaks in
Continue readingMusings on Canadian Politics: Islamic extremism and the power of an idea in the internet age
The comical, if it weren’t so serious, attempt by a couple of disaffected WASPs to murder, Boston Marathon style, Canada Day revellers at British Columbia’s legislature shows the power of an idea in the internet age. The bombing suspects, John Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody, planned to detonate a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’m Sure It Is Just A Coincidence …
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Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden [VIDEO]
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘” don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things” Video available on YouTube We recommend: The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Snooping #freebrad: Tweeting Bradley Manning Trial Before US Military Court CIA whistleblower
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Omar Khadr moved to Edmonton prison after months in solitary confinement
Former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr has been transferred to the maximum-security Edmonton Institution in Alberta after spending months in solitary confinement at Millhaven penitentiary in Ontario, where a fellow inmate once threatened his life. The post Omar Khadr moved to Edmonton prison after months in solitary confinement appeared first on
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Woolwich attack on British soldier Lee Rigby was not ‘terrorism’
The killing on an off-duty British soldier on a street in Woolwich, London, had all the ingredients loved by the tabloids… dark skinned Muslim assailants armed with knives and machete… a white well liked military man wearing a Help for Heroes shirt. Had to be an act of terrorism, right?
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Dissent or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide
By: Center for Media and Democracy | Press Release: MADISON, WI – May 20 – DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy today released the results of a year-long investigation: “Dissent or Terror: How the Nation’s Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.” The
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Could You Become a Victim of Car-Hacking?
It’s not carjacking. Nobody with a gun jumping into the driver’s seat and speeding off with your ride. It’s car-hacking. A cyber criminal hacking into a car’s computer systems to wreak havoc. Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said while he’s excited about safety improvements through
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Activist Assata Shakur put on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list: reeks of political targeting
In the weeks following the Boston bombing, an icon of the black liberation struggle in the U.S., Assata Shakur, has turned up on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. The timing is far from coincidental. It’s the first time a woman has been placed on the bureau’s terrorist list… in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Radio Free Canada: The Cultivation Of Fear And Other Tory Sins
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Radio Free Canada: The Cultivation Of Fear And Other Tory Sins
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