Mohandas Gandhi You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind
Benjamin Franklin They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
Downtown Toronto has been transformed quite effectively into an armed camp, with walls patrolled by a temporary paramilitary police garrison drawn from across the country. Members of this (in)security force designated as ‘guards’ have been given special powers to arrest and detain both residents and visitors to Toronto who, being near the G20 security zone, [...]
On April 27, Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons, ruled that Parliament had the right of access to unredacted documents in the Afghan detainee issue, in order to fulfill its constitutional duty to hold the government accountable. As many observers said at the time, this was a landmark ruling, in two senses.
First, it [...]
In a June 14 press conference, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced the introduction of new legislation that would create an arms-length civilian public complaints commission for the RCMP. The first reading version of the bill, formally entitled ‘An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act and to make consequential amendments to other [...]
The Government of Canada claims that it is both necessary and reasonable to spend close to a billion dollars of taxpayer money on security for the upcoming back-to-back G-8 and G-20 summits, in Huntsville and Toronto respectively. As is the norm with security practices, serious public debate about the benefits and costs of a given [...]
