Posted by admin on Jul 23rd, 2010
Toronto — Globe and Mail Update Friday, Jul. 23, 2010
Canada’s national security agency does not have an “effective mechanism†for ensuring it does not rely on evidence obtained by torture, the Federal Court has found. The court sided with a man accused of terrorist links, who Ottawa is trying to deport, in finding there are “reasonable grounds†to believe some of the information against him was obtained through torture and is therefore inadmissible. Mohamed Mahjoub was arrested in 2000 and held on a national security certificate, accused of links to an Egyptian Islamic terrorist organization.
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Posted by admin on Jul 9th, 2010
By Chad Skelton, Vancouver Sun July 9, 2010
VANCOUVER — The Canada Border Services Agency now admits it has no proof that 25 Sri Lankan boat migrants it labelled as terrorists and kept behind bars for months were in fact members of the outlawed Tamil Tigers. Last month, The Vancouver Sun obtained a secret CBSA report that stated there were “reasonable grounds” to believe a third of the 76 migrants who arrived in B.C. on the Ocean Lady migrant ship last October were members of the Tamil Tigers.
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Posted by admin on Jan 20th, 2010
By Adrian Nieoczym, Kelowna.com, Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The police took a special interest in an anti-Olympics speaking tour’s Kelowna stop last night. And while the cops say they are just doing what’s necessary to keep the Olympics safe, critics contend their actions are intimidating and an attack on the right to dissent. About 15 minutes before the talk began, according to event organizers, a uniformed RCMP officer dropped by the Okanagan College classroom where it was being held to check up on what was going on. Once the talk was over, one of the speakers, Aboriginal activist Ska-Hiish Manuel, was approached in the college parking lot by a waiting member of the special Vancouver 2010 Joint Intelligence Group.
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Posted by admin on Jan 15th, 2010
January 15, 2010, CBC News
The federal government is prepared to release the remaining 25 Tamil migrants held in Vancouver on suspicion of links to terrorism since they arrived in Canada three months ago. The men were among the 76 passengers and crew of a ship seized off Vancouver Island Oct. 17. All of the men claimed refugee status, saying they were fleeing the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Fifty-one of the men were eventually released after posting bonds and agreeing to appear when summoned for hearings on their refugee claims.
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Posted by admin on Jan 7th, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010 CBC News
Training airport officials to examine a passenger’s body language and behaviour could help identify potential threats that other high-tech screening methods might miss, says a Canadian security expert. Arne Kislenko, an professor of international relations at the University of Toronto and a former senior security officer at Lester B. Pearson Airport in Toronto, believes airport security staff shouldn’t rely solely on screening technology like the new full-body scanners. The machines, which cost $250,000 each, are able to see through clothing and allow a screening officer to see whether someone is carrying explosives or other dangerous items.
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