Oct. 28, 2014 –
Globe and Mail – Sean Silcoff
Tories to table expanded security bill
Guess what? The security agency, CSIS, already has what tools they need according to Conservative MP Deborah Grey who chairs the Security Review Committee. The problem instead is the process to oversee the agency. “CSIS may be casting too wide a net during some of its wiretaps and Internet intercepts, while noting that CSIS regional surveillance teams “operate in total isolation … and communicate only sporadically” with one another and headquarters.” Experts are sceptical that anything further can help prevent the ‘lone wolf.’ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-to-table-expanded-security-bill/article21311502 Related article: Globe and Mail Steven Chase, Josh Wingrove and Colin Freeze Ottawa eyes deeper security overhaul http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/bill-expanding-csiss-powers-to-be-tabled-monday/article21312859 Related article: Toronto Star – Chantel Hébert Jason Kenney would be ideal terror point man for Harper http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/27/jason_kenney_would_be_ideal_terror_point_man_for_harper_hbert.html Related article: CBC News – Brian Stewart Analysis: Don’t overload CSIS: The case for a separate foreign spy agency – New spying powers don’t resolve CSIS’s central problem http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/don-t-overload-csis-the-case-for-a-separate-foreign-spy-agency-1.2814885 Related article: CBC News – Susana Mas CSIS powers beefed up under new bill tabled by Steven Blaney http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-powers-beefed-up-under-new-bill-tabled-by-steven-blaney-1.2814314 Related article: Global News – Laura Stone ‘Distorted world view,’ not mental illness, drove terrorists: RCMP http://globalnews.ca/news/1637417/zehaf-bibeau-cited-canadas-foreign-policy-religion-in-video-made-before-ottawa-attack
The Canadian Law Times –
The Hill: Liberal justice critic hopes to address other areas besides crime
Liberal justice critic Sean Casey from Prince Edward Island thinks that there is a wider sense of justice than just criminal justice. “I want justice policy to be built around a restorative and rehabilitative approach to criminal justice founded on social science instead of ideology and bumper stickers,” says Casey, a likely Minister of Justice under a Liberal government. http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201410274277/commentary/liberal-justice-critic-hopes-to-address-other-areas-besides-crime?utm_source=responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CLNewswire_20141027
Rabble.ca – Harsha Walia
No safe haven: Canada’s ‘managed migration’
Jose Figueroa came to Canada in 1997 and was approved in principle for permanent residency. Now he is in hiding to avoid deportation years later for his political opposition to a US backed dictator in El Salvador and very much missing his two Canadian born children. Very unusual, you say? Not so says Walia! It is called ‘managed migration’ and the US Immigration points to Canada for the excellence of its model. http://rabble.ca/news/2014/10/no-safe-haven-canadas-managed-migration
Prison Reform Trust (UK)
Bromley Briefings Prison Fact-file
This report draws a distressing picture of UK prisons calling it “a stark and disturbing picture, and saying that “warning signs reveal a prison system under unprecedented strain.” The fact-file report is 81 pages and available in downloadable pdf format, offering a comprehensive topic commentary and good factual material for the topic comparison with other jurisdictions.. http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/Bromley%20Briefings/Factfile%20Autumn%202014.pdf?dm_i=47L,2X6KC,6JSCMH,AJZVV,1
Government of Manitoba – Bill 60
The Restorative Justice Act
The act has not yet gotten consent but the purpose of the act is clear: “to support the development and use of restorative justice programs in Manitoba.” The act also makes it clear that RJ can be used before or after the charges. The justice department is to develop policies to be applied. https://web2.gov.mb.ca/bills/40-3/b060e.php