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Beyond public view: Harper's Beyond the Border initiative a year later

| December 13, 2012
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U.S. surveillance and the National Security Agency

NSA Eagle. Photo: ElectronicFrontierFoundation/Flickr

Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was charged with a crime, but they have been tracked, surveilled, detained -- sometimes at gunpoint -- and interrogated, with no access to a lawyer. Each remains resolute in standing up to the increasing government crackdown on dissent.

Community members drop by CSIS offices with some questions

Photo: Mary Foster

Montreal -- Community members showed up at the offices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in Montreal yesterday morning, intent on engaging in a little role reversal. The group came equipped to photograph and interrogate people entering the offices in an action called "profile the profilers."

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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #202: Canada's surveillance society and the campaign against unions

February 10, 2012
| Micheal Vonn discusses coming bills to expand police surveillance powers, Stephen Staples on the national security establishment and Herman Rosenfeld analyzes the co-ordinated campaign against unions.
Length: 00:02 minutes
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