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G20 protesters already being monitored by officials
June 8, 2010 – 12:44 pm | No Comment
G20 protesters already being monitored by officials

By Tom Godfrey
TORONTO – Hard-core protesters who plan to wreak havoc at the G20 summit will sneak into Canada from the U.S. through remote border crossings, police say.
The protesters likely won’t be boarding …

How George Galloway was barred from Canada in less than 2 hours – The British MP went from controversial to ‘inadmissible’ in just 102 minutes, and evidence suggests politics likely had a hand in slashing the red tape
April 26, 2010 – 2:23 pm | No Comment
How George Galloway was barred from Canada in less than 2 hours – The British MP went from controversial to ‘inadmissible’ in just 102 minutes, and evidence suggests politics likely had a hand in slashing the red tape

By Cambell Clark
Ottawa — It took less than two hours for Canadian Border Services Agency officials to declare controversial British MP George Galloway inadmissible to Canada. There was little doubt that’s what Immigration Minister Jason …

Court documents put spotlight on minister in banning of British MP
April 20, 2010 – 10:20 am | No Comment
Court documents put spotlight on minister in banning of British MP

By Cathryn Atkinson
The controversy behind the Canadian banning of outspoken British anti-war MP George Galloway is set to deepen — with potentially damaging implications for the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, and …

Civil-liberties group sounds alarm on racial profiling – Report details how people are treated under new security measures at borders
February 10, 2010 – 6:38 pm | No Comment
Civil-liberties group sounds alarm on racial profiling – Report details how people are treated under new security measures at borders

By Jim Bronskill
Ottawa — A civil liberties coalition says racial and religious profiling has become a fact of life at the Canada-U.S. border.
In a report released Wednesday, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group calls on …

Wesley Wark: Post-9/11 fatigue sets in – Wesley Wark, security specialist at the University of Toronto. A next chapter written by law enforcement sounds a lot better to Canadian ears than one written by a CSIS driven into Stasi terrain
November 24, 2009 – 2:53 pm | No Comment
Wesley Wark: Post-9/11 fatigue sets in – Wesley Wark, security specialist at the University of Toronto.  A next chapter written by law enforcement sounds a lot better to Canadian ears than one written by a CSIS driven into Stasi terrain

By Wesley Wark
Canada’s front-line national security agencies have been subjected to enormous and unprecedented stresses and strains in the past eight years. The fault lines are starting to show.
Remember that scene in John le Carré’s …

Judge slams search of terror suspect’s home – By Joanna Smith
June 25, 2009 – 10:26 am | No Comment
Judge slams search of terror suspect’s home – By Joanna Smith

By Joanna Smith

OTTAWA – A sweeping search through the home of a suspected terrorist – including a drawer full of underwear belonging to his wife – violated the man’s constitutional right to privacy, a Federal …

New Canada/U.S. border announcements
May 28, 2009 – 1:18 pm | No Comment
New Canada/U.S. border announcements

Following two days of meetings between Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and Canadian Public Safety minister Peter Van Loan, Canada and the U.S. have launched new joint border initiatives and issued a …

Al-Qaeda suspect to ask for return to prison. Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub will turn himself in, saying life under house arrest since 2007 has put strain on family
March 17, 2009 – 9:12 pm | No Comment
Al-Qaeda suspect to ask for return to prison. Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub will turn himself in, saying life under house arrest since 2007 has put strain on family

COLIN FREEZE
Globe and Mail
March 17, 2009 at 9:12 PM EDT
TORONTO – An Egyptian man accused of links to al-Qaeda plans to turn himself in to be returned to jail on Wednesday morning, with his wife …