Reg Whitaker joins Prism as a regular contributor

I would like to inform our readers that Reg Whitaker has joined the Prism family of respected contributors. I am sure you all know Mr. Whitaker and the excellent advisory role he played at the O’Connor Inquiry.  He is the author of many books and has extensive experience in National Security matters.
Reg Whitaker is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University, and [...]

Maureen Webb joins Prism as a regular contributor

I would like to inform our readers that Maureen Webb has joined the Prism family of respected contributors. Maureen is a long-time social activist. She has extensive experience and knowledge in all subjects related to total surveillance society such as data mining. She has written an excellent book about the subject that I recommend to everyone. Here is her complete biography:
 
 

 
Maureen Webb is a human [...]

50 years for the guilty, and only ten (or seven) for the innocent

I was stunned to learn through this Ottawa Citizen article that an Afghan man was imprisoned for seven years at the infamous Bagram base based on suspicions that he was the ”main money handler for Osama bin Laden”. It turned out Mr. Wazir was no more than a simple family man who was trying hard to feed his family. [...]

New Publication Schedule for PRISM

We’ve decided to change our publication date from mid-month to the first of the month, allowing us to be better synchronized with readership. By moving our publication date to the beginning of the month, it will be easier for our readers to know when to expect new featured content.
Along with this change we’ll be continuing [...]

Karl Rove: torture was justified and a cause for pride

In his newly published book Courage and Consequences, Karl Rove, Bush’s top political strategist, defends the use of Waterboarding after dismissing that it constitutes torture. In a BBC interview he even goes further: “I am proud that we kept the world safer than it was, by the use of these techniques. They’re appropriate, they’re in [...]

New Review Mechanism Announced for the RCMP

The Government of Canada has recently heeded long-standing calls for responsible oversight of the RCMP, announcing it will create a new and independent watchdog agency that will have broader powers to investigate and review complaints against the RCMP.
The Government states that “in response to concerns expressed by the public, provinces and territories, parliamentary committees and [...]

McGill University Symposium on Counter-Terroism and Civil Liberties – Panel 1: Canadian Intelligence

McGill University Symposium on Counter-Terroism and Civil Liberties – Panel 2: Crafting a Charter Compliant Security

McGill University Symposium on Counter-Terroism and Civil Liberties – Panel 3: Secure Partnership: US and Canada’s National Security Policies

McGill University Symposium on Counterterrorism and Civil Liberties, streaming live from Prism

Confirmed speakers: Warren Allmand, Alfred Alan Borovoy, Paul Champ, François Crépeau, Paul Dewar, Pearl Eliadis, Craig Forcese, Paul Kennedy, Simon Potter, Noël St. Pierre, Alexandre Trudeau.
The Symposium on Counter-Terrorism and Civil Liberties is the unprecedented collaborative effort of several groups at McGill’s Faculty of Law, including the Human Rights Working Group, the Muslim Law Students [...]