Canada’s telecoms aid state surveillance by handing over personal data
Federal police agencies are making well over a million requests each year for personal subscriber information from the telecommunications companies.
•Ed Patrick
Ed Patrick
Canada’s spy agencies lied to the courts
The Canadian state’s principal spy agencies have been found by a senior federal judge to have “systematically” omitted and concealed information in numerous warrant applications
•Ed Patrick, Keith Jones
Canada facilitated NSA spying on 2010 G8 and G20 summits
With the support of the Communications Security Establishment Canada, the NSA spied on the 2010 G8 and G20 summits held in Ontario, Canada.
•Ed Patrick, Keith Jones
Canada’s Conservative government targets federal workers’ basic rights
Canada’s government plans to strip tens of thousands of federal workers of the right to strike, to block a challenge to its plans to cut pay and benefits and slash public services.
•Ed Patrick
CSEC’s spying: What Canada’s elite don’t want the public to know
The government, opposition and corporate media are determined to keep Canadians in the dark about the activities of CSEC, the Canadian counterpart and partner of the NSA.
•Ed Patrick
Canada’s Communications Security Establishment part of a secret state-within-the-state
Most Canadians had never heard of the Communications Security Establishment prior to last month’s revelation that it has been metadata mining Canadians’ electronic communications since 2005. And Canada’s elite is determined to keep it that way.
•Ed Patrick, Keith Jones
Canadian government proposing draconian criminal sanctions for masked protesters
Canada’s parliament is on the verge of adopting a law that would make persons wearing a mask at a police-designated “unlawful assembly” liable to a 5-year prison term.
•Ed Patrick
Canada’s government continues to persecute “child soldier” Omar Khadr
Canada’s Conservative government is continuing the decade-long vendetta Canadian and U.S. authorities have mounted against Omar Khadr, the “child soldier” who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for the past decade.
•Ed Patrick
Canada: Conservatives’ reactionary “tough on crime” bill soon to become law
A top priority of Canada’s Conservative government is to pass an omnibus anti-crime bill replete with socially regressive measures. Taken together, these measures represent a wholesale repudiation of the notion of rehabilitation, in favor of punishment and vengeance.
•Ed Patrick
Toronto Mayor moves to gut city jobs and services
Claiming a $750 million budget shortfall, Toronto’s municipal government is moving forward with plans to cut vital public services and eliminate thousands of public transit, fire department, library, and other city-worker jobs.
•Ed Patrick