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They hate us for our Charter

03/01/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Uncanny resemblance, isn’t it?  Your “values” aren’t looking too good at the moment, Mr Blaney. Having rushed the 62-page omnibus anti-terrorism bill C-51 through Parliament, the Cons are now demanding it be rushed through committee as well. They wanted to restrict expert testimony to three Public Safety Committee meetings — with one of them taken […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abdullah Almalki, BIll C-51, Canada, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Charter of Rights, CIA, Conservatives, CSIS, Dept of Justice and Public Safety, Jean Chretien, Joe Clark, John Turner, Maher Arar, New Democrats, Paul Martin, Public Safety Committee, RCMP, Security Intelligence Review Committee, Solicitor General of Canada, Stephen Harper, Steven Blaney, Supreme Court of Canada, Syria, terrorism, Thomas Mulcair

Canadians & torture: We like to watch

12/17/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Canada’s collateral fallout from the Senate Intelligence Committee summary on the torture of prisoners at CIA “black site” prisons around the world: A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney’s office said Wednesday that Canada does not engage in, or condone, torture by national security agencies but …  Canada will act on ‘a tip […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Abu Zubaydah, Bruce Carson, Canada, CIA, CSIS, FBI, Guantanamo, Jim Judd, Maher Arar, Omar Khadr, Richard Colvin, Senate Intelligence Committee, Stephen Harper, Steven Blaney, torture, U.S. politics

Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?

08/09/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiastically repeated across our national press: CBC: CSIS file reveals plot to bomb […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Adil Charkaoui, Canada, Canadian politics, CanWest, CBC, CSIS, CTV, France, Jason Kenney, LaPresse, law, Maher Arar, Ottawa Citizen, terrorism, Toronto Star, U.S.

Lessons for Project Samosa

08/31/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP’s latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows for far more pants-pissingly terrorfying conjecture than […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian Press, CanWest, CTV, Maher Arar, Media, Ottawa Citizen, RCMP, terrorism

Day One in Khadr’s kangaroo court

05/02/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Below: Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights Watch is interviewed as she leaves the courtroom on Day 1 of Obama’s first big pretrial for a military commission into the possible terrorist actions of a 14-year old. Terrible sound, I know, but well worth it for her explanation of how after Khadr has been tortured […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, law, Maher Arar, Omar Khadr, torture, US, US military

Ottawa expands its terror kit

04/26/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Your government announced on Friday that it needs more powers to combat terrorism. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson: “These provisions are necessary to protect our country from the threat of terrorism.” A redo of the panicky, now-defunct Anti-terrorism Act of 2001, the new Combating Terrorism Act includes preventive arrest and forcing people to testify […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Afghanistan, Alykhan Velshi, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, George Galloway, Lawrence Cannon, Liberals, Maher Arar, Mohamed Harkat, Peter Van Loan, Rob Nicholson, terrorism, torture

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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