Posted by admin on Mar 12th, 2009
By Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service. March 12, 2009
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OTTAWA — Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, who introduced legislation Thursday to revive lapsed anti-terrorism measures, said it is necessary to give police additional powers “if and when” they need them, even though they never have been used. Nicholson defended his controversial bill as a hip-pocket type of law, so nobody can come back to the government in the event of a terror attack to ask why it didn’t do more to prevent the attack.
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Posted by admin on Mar 12th, 2009
Globe and Mail. March 12, 2009
MONTREAL and OTTAWA — More than 100 Canadians have chipped in airfare and exposed themselves to criminal prosecution in an effort to force Ottawa to allow a Canadian citizen to fly home from Sudan, where he’s been stranded since being labelled an al-Qaeda operative by the United Nations. The donors, including teachers, students and a couple of dozen university professors from across Canada, bought a $997 airline ticket for Abousfian Abdelrazik.
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Posted by admin on Mar 2nd, 2009
A new memo shows just how far the Bush administration considered going in fighting the war on terror.
Michael Isikoff. Newsweek Web Exclusive
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside the United States, deploy high-tech surveillance against U.S. citizens and potentially suspend First Amendment freedom-of-the-press rights in order to combat the terror threat, according to a memo released Monday.
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Posted by admin on Feb 21st, 2009
February 21, 2009. Lesley Ciarula Taylor. Toronto Star
The case of a 53-year-old Colombian refugee fighting deportation on evidence she is forbidden to read has taken a chilling turn with something she can read. A Colombian newspaper, citing Canada’s security service as the source, printed her sons’ names and locations, making them targets in the country’s bloody civil war. “This was shocking to me,” said Amparo Torres. “This puts in danger the lives of my sons. If they are killed, the responsibility belongs to CSIS.”
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Posted by admin on Feb 20th, 2009
Thu. Feb. 19 2009. CTV.ca News Staff
The security budget for the 2010 Winter Olympics will be $900 million, government officials said Thursday, ending months of rampant speculation about the massive figure. Initially, Olympic officials estimated that security costs for the Games would come in at only $175 million. Since then, that number has ballooned as security experts grappled with the massive undertaking of dealing with the expected flood of visitors, athletes and officials.
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