Mar 31, 2015 CBC News – Kady O’Malley Bill C-51 amendments seem unconnected to committee process - Not one Conservative MP publicly voiced concerns during last week's marathon hearings The changes to C-51 from the clause-by-clause review in … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
Two Canada’s, too?…
March 29, 2015 by
Mar 29, 2015 Ted Talks - Anand Giridharadas: A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided A Ted talk (almost 20 minute video) that is an inspiring story about one of the myriads of consequences to the 9/11 incidents. It's … [Read more...]
Pounding the pulpit…
March 27, 2015 by
Mar 27, 2015 Toronto Star – Editorial (March 27, 2015) Flaying the Anti-Terrorism Act: Public support for the Anti-Terrorism Act has plunged dramatically as Canadians learn of the details. Pardon the expressions but the Toronto Star is … [Read more...]
Islamophobia on the rise…
March 26, 2015 by
Mar 26, 2015 Toronto Star – Allan Woods Islam needs to reform or leave, says Canadian leader of PEGIDA movement PEGIDA (the name is a German acronym for Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West) has arrived in Canada, … [Read more...]
Canada – against the stream…
March 23, 2015 by
Mar 23, 2015 The Sentencing Project (US) – Marc Mauer Testimony to Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections: “A Proposal to Reduce Time Served in Federal Prison” The Sentencing Project is a Washington based research group that … [Read more...]
CBA no to C-51…
March 22, 2015 by
Mar 22, 2015 National Newswatch – Jim Bronskill, Canadian Press Canadian Bar Association denounces government’s anti-terrorism bill The CBA assessment of C-51: the anti-terrorism bill contains "ill-considered" measures that will deprive … [Read more...]
C-51: A Trojan horse…
March 20, 2015 by
Mar 20, 2015 iPolitics - Michael Geist How dangerous is C-51? You might be surprised. In the light of the testimony of witnesses to date, Geist thinks “the proposed legislation is an unprecedented undermining of Canadian privacy … [Read more...]
NCR…
March 19, 2015 by
Mar 19, 2015 Toronto Star – Amy Dempsey Study disputes 'not criminally responsible’ myths The finding of not-criminally responsible (NCR) has re-surfaced in the light of the “life-means-life” legislation proposed by the federal … [Read more...]
Truth matters!
March 17, 2015 by
Mar 17, 2015 National Newswatch – Don Lenihan Do truth and values (still) matter in politics? Lenihan draws attention to the imitation of American Republican style politics where perception is king and truth or evidence does not matter: what … [Read more...]
The lone wolf…
March 16, 2015 by
Mar 16, 2015 Toronto Star – Alex Boutilier CSIS highlights white supremacist threat ahead of radical Islam According to internal documents from CSIS, it appears that there is likely a higher threat to terrorism from ‘lone wolf’ individuals … [Read more...]