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Is Canada flexing its muscles in the spying world?

This fall, the iconic British spy movie character James Bond, inspired by author Ian Fleming's past as an officer in the Navy Intelligence, will celebrate his fiftieth anniversary.

Of course, James Bond's movies, beyond their obvious commercial intent and Hollywodian glamour, fitted extremely well in a political context of a cold war era where the "good guys" were represented by the Western/American cops and the "bad guys" were represented by the Eastern/Russian spies. Britain, as an ex-empire, developed a thorough expertise in the spying game. Regardless of the legitimacy of their acts, the agents of the Military Intelligence MI5 and MI6, who worked for "Her Majesty," built a strong reputation.

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Dear cool apps: Why are you spying on my phone calls?

Bob Chandler

| June 10, 2012

Guest post by Michelle Langlois

I got a new smartphone seven months ago, and it's a pretty handy little gadget. I'll never get lost again since I have a map that can pinpoint my location down to whether I'm in the front or back of my house. I downloaded a banking app that lets me check my balance, pay bills, and transfer funds whenever I want to do it. And, of course, I can tweet, foursquare, play Frozen Bubble, and watch YouTube any time I like.

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Perversity and honour: Scenes from a terrorist's election campaign

Two weeks ago, Hollywood liberal and all-around gorgeous good guy George Clooney hosted a glad-handing fundraising event that, according to the Patriot Act's broad provisions, should have landed him and fellow attendees Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand, Tobey Maguire, and Robert Downey, Jr., behind bars for violating broadly designed material support for terrorism laws.

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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.

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Community members drop by CSIS offices with some questions

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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G20 report: Continued crackdown on dissent, demanding accountability

February 7, 2012

| Our G20 report includes updates from the May 2010 police slaying of Junior Manon and his family's quest for justice, the call for police accountability and a crackdown on another anti-police blogger.

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Video: (Un)lawful Access Townhall with Andrew Cash, Jessie Hirsh, Steve Anderson and Ron Deibert

How far is the Conservative government planning on going with its "Lawful Access" online snooping bill?

Think police should have access to YOUR Internet and cell phone records without a warrant? Watch the rebroadcast of the (Un)lawful Access Townhall Meeting! Held November 18, 2011 in Toronto, and hosted by Andrew Cash, MP for Davenport, with guest speakers: Ron Deibert from Citizen Lab/Canada Centre, U of T, Steve Anderson from Openmedia.ca, and Jesse Hirsh, President, Metaviews.ca.

Join the fight to stop this invasive legislation and protect our privacy rights. If enough of us speak out now, the government will have no choice but to stop this mandatory online spying scheme. Sign the petition by Openmedia.ca

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CEP, Council of Canadians demand answers to RCMP spying on activists

Council of Canadians

| November 24, 2011

RCMP records obtained under freedom of information legislation reveal a disturbing relationship between the national police force and corporations.

According to a CBC news report, the Joint Intelligence Group, an RCMP-led intelligence team that has extensively spied on community organizations and activists, "made a series of presentations to private-sector corporations, including one to 'energy sector stakeholders' in November 2011. Other corporations that received intelligence from police included Canada's major banks, telecom firms, airlines, downtown property companies and other businesses seen to be vulnerable to the effects of summit protests."

The Council of Canadians and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada demands answers.

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Giorgio Mammoliti's red scare at Toronto city hall

It's hard to explain to anyone under 30 (who'd have been 8 when the Berlin Wall fell) what the Cold War was like, or even that it happened. Clashes between "communism and freedom," a readiness to incinerate the planet, stalking "subversives." A culture bathed in politics. The Hollywood red scare, the career of Ronald Reagan: from B-actor to president. And spy mania. It seems as remote as the Middle Ages yet many of us were there.

If you want your kids to understand the Middle Ages, you can take them to Medieval Times at the CNE. If you want give them a sense of the Cold War, take them to a council meeting at city hall. Look for Giorgio Mammoliti.

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Stop spying on Canadians

July 29, 2011

| The Canadian government claims that a new bill before Parliament will protect our privacy. Steve Anderson of OpenMedia.ca disagrees.

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