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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 …

Spying on us doesn’t protect democracy. It undermines it – By branding protesters and mainstream Muslim activists as extremists, the police are effectively criminalising dissent
November 4, 2009 – 4:18 pm | No Comment
Spying on us doesn’t protect democracy. It undermines it – By branding protesters and mainstream Muslim activists as extremists, the police are effectively criminalising dissent

By Seumas Milne
There’s nothing new about British governments spying on their own citizens. From the time of Elizabeth I’s spy chief Francis Walsingham to the legendary agent provocateurs of the years after Waterloo to the …