By Paul Weinberg, IPS, Feb. 28 2011

TORONTO – The just-announced Canada-U.S. security perimetre discussions are comprehensive and potentially wide-ranging and could impact Canadian sovereignty. However, the domestic opposition appears to have been caught off-guard. It is hard to fight a deal when Ottawa and Washington are offering few details, said Vancouver-based international lawyer, author and commentator Michael Byers in a recent interview with IPS. “The people who are opposed to this are left pointing at shadows rather than anything concrete,” he noted.

» click here to continue reading

By JUDITH LAVOIE, Timescolonist.com, January 11 2011

An associate professor at the University of Victoria was investigated by the FBI after a student complained about remarks she was alleged to have made during a lecture in the U.S.

» click here to continue reading

By Sophie Harkat, Rabble.ca, January 11, 2011

Eight years ago, on Dec. 10th, 2002, Mohamed Harkat was arrested and thrown in jail for alleged and unproven terrorism offenses, and faces deportation to his native Algeria. His wife Sophie describes the impact of the prosecution against him and of the recent judicial setback in his case, when Justice Simon Noel upheld the security certificate issued against him.

» click here to continue reading

Vancouver: Tuesday, 23 November, 6pm. Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street

Between 17 and 23 November 2010, Abousfian Abdelrazik will be speaking at public events organized in five cities across Western Canada. Sponsored by: BC Federation of Labour; Canadian Labour Congress (Pacific Region); RAGA Center for Race Autobiography Gender and Age (UBC); Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements (SFU); No One Is Illegal-Vancouver; Vancouver District Labour Council (VDLC). More info: noii-van@resist.ca

It is now over sixteen months since Mr. Abdelrazik returned to Canada after six years of exile – which included two years of arbitrary and abusive detention and a further year trapped within the Canadian consulate in Khartoum. As Federal Court judge Russell Zinn concluded, Mr. Abdelrazik’s initial detention probably took place at the request of CSIS, Canada’s spy agency.

» click here to continue reading

Friday, November 5, 2010, CBC News

Air Canada has ordered its staff to subject anyone connected to Yemen to undergo extra security checks after the discovery last week of two packages containing explosives that originated from the country. A memo, circulated at several major Canadian airports, directs Air Canada staff to take aside any passenger who was born or is a resident in Yemen, is travelling to or transiting through Yemen, or has started a trip in the country. The passenger, who will already have gone through normal security, will be taken to a so-called sterile area for a second and more thorough search.

» click here to continue reading