The day pipeline security followed me — and what I learned later about Canada’s spy agency
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8 min. readAs the federal government designates resource extraction projects in the ‘national interest,’ the companies building...
Hello, CSIS!
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This post originally appeared on the Dogwood Initiative blog. I should confess: I talk to lamp...
Unconventional Adventures: Tracing Our Energy Lifecycle Almost Turned this Filmmaker into a Terrorist and Polar Bear Snack
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Fracking, open pit oilsands mining, underground steam injection, mountain top removal mining, Arctic oil drilling...
How Stephen Harper Used God and Neoliberalism to Construct the Radical Environmentalist Frame
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Stephen Harper’s efforts to frame environmentalists as radicals who deserve to be investigated by the...
VIDEO: Canada Has a Troubling Definition of ‘Threat’
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The government defines a threat completely differently than a citizen does. We think of threats...
What’s More Worrying? Bill C-51 or the Fact That So Many People Don’t Know What’s In It?
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Far more disturbing than what’s in Bill C-51 is the fact that most Canadians don’t...
CSIS “Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny” Spying on Me (Or You For That Matter)
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When I asked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) whether it has files on me...
Canada and the Politics of Fear: Anti-Terrorism, Surveillance and Citizenship in a Changing World
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The Harper government — like so many governments that have come before it and will come after...
Group Calls for Formal Ethics Inquiry into Spy Watchdog Turned Enbridge Lobbyist Chuck Strahl
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Public interest group Democracy Watch released a letter (link to pdf) to ethics commissioner Mary...
