Blog
Yves Engler
| The Five Eyes arrangement has made Canada complicit in belligerent U.S. foreign policy. It's time for a debate about Canadian participation in the "Anglosphere's" intelligence-sharing agreement. |
Columnists
Monia Mazigh
| This week, a French judge ordered the release of Hassan Diab from jail while an investigation into his case continues. Canada should follow suit and give Diab due process. |
Columnists
Matthew Behrens
| Instead of questioning the mandates and core practices of secretive, unaccountable security agencies, efforts are underway to save the system by putting up some nice-looking window dressing. |
Columnists
Monia Mazigh
| What factor is common to Canada, Sweden and Denmark? The snow, perhaps? The social programs? How about rendition to torture? |
Columnists
Matthew Behrens
| The long-running extradition saga of Dr. Hassan Diab -- sought by French authorities for a 1980 crime he did not commit -- took a dramatic turn when the Supreme Court refused to hear his final appeal. |
Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| The Harper government has noted that Canada doesn't torture people -- but ducks the question about whether Canadian authorities have used information obtained by others through torture. |
Columnists
Amy Goodman
| Lost in the Beltway power struggle between Sen. Dianne Feinstein and the CIA is the untold story of the United States' secret policy of torture and rendition. |
Blog
Maher Arar
| Why have our societies become conditioned to accept torture? The main reason is that intelligence agencies and politicians have mastered the "art" of demonizing terror suspects. |
Columnists
Amy Goodman
| 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. |
Blog
Maher Arar
| A new directive issued by the Minister of Public Safety removes any ambiguity about the government's position on the use and sharing of information that is likely derived from torture. |
Blog
Maher Arar
| In a carefully worded directive, obtained by Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, Public Safety Minister Vic Towes instructs CSIS to accept information under torture. |