Posted by admin on Dec 4th, 2008
By Christopher Rocchio, 12/04/2008
ABC has announced Homeland Security USA, a new reality series that will focus on the work of various border protection agencies in their effort to stop illegal smuggling and immigration, will premiere Tuesday, January 6 at 8PM ET/PT. Homeland Security USA was shot on location throughout the country and was filmed in cooperation with numerous government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, United States Citizenship & Immigration Services, the Secret Service, Customs & Border Protection and Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
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Posted by admin on Nov 4th, 2008
Kim Bolan. Canwest News Service. Tuesday, November 04, 2008
VANCOUVER – Every Indian national who wants to visit Canada must now answer a sweeping questionnaire that asks if they or any of their relatives around the world have ever had links to militant groups such as the Babbar Khalsa or the International Sikh Youth Federation. The form demands details of any arrests or criminal charges laid against the applicant or any family members, and whether they have ever served in the police or any paramilitary force.
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Posted by admin on Oct 21st, 2008
CBC News, Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The actions of Canadian officials contributed indirectly to the torture of three Arab-Canadian men in Syria, a federal inquiry has concluded. “I found no evidence that any of these officials were seeking to do anything other than carry out conscientiously the duties and responsibilities of the institutions of which they were a part,” former Supreme Court of Canada justice Frank Iacobucci concluded in his report, made public Tuesday, 22 months after the inquiry began. The probe focused on whether the detentions of Abdullah Almalki, Muayyed Nureddin and Ahmad El Maati resulted from the actions of CSIS, the RCMP and the department of Foreign Affairs and whether Canadian consular officials acted appropriately in the cases.
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Posted by admin on Aug 9th, 2008
CBCÂ Friday, August 8, 2008
The fate of the first person tried in an alleged homegrown terrorist conspiracy to “cripple Canada” that captured headlines around the world two years ago rested with an Ontario judge Friday as the trial ended with the defence pressing for the man’s acquittal. Superior Court Justice John Sproat was left to decide between defence suggestions the plot was a “jihadi fantasy” the accused knew nothing about, and Crown assertions he was a knowledgeable and willing participant in a potentially deadly conspiracy.
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Posted by admin on Aug 8th, 2008
CBCÂ Friday, August 8, 2008
The United States will unveil new border surveillance measures Friday in a move that has one New Democratic MP decrying what he sees as the “weaponization” of the Canada-U.S. frontier. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is slated to open an air and marine border-monitoring outpost just north of the Detroit-Windsor border at Selfridge Air National Guard Base on Lake St. Clair in Michigan.
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