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News Digest - Revue de l'actualité
January 23, 2014 - 23 janvier 2014  
Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent

Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist

The Guardian
21/01/2014 - In late 2013, official documents obtained under freedom of information showed that Canada's domestic spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), had ramped up its surveillance of activists opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline project on 'national security' grounds. The CSIS also routinely passed information about such groups to the project's corporate architect, Calgary-based energy company, Enbridge. Investigative journalist Steve Horn reports that TransCanada has also worked closely with American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies in attempting to criminalise US citizens opposed to the pipeline. Files obtained under freedom of information last summer showed that in training documents for the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), TransCanada suggested that non-violent Keystone XL protestors could be deterred using criminal and anti-terror statutes: "... the language in some of the documents is so vague that it could also ensnare journalists, researchers and academics, as well." 

 

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Ukraine passes anti-protest legislation

En Ukraine, la loi restreignant les manifestations promulguée

Ukraine's Big Brother text: "Dear subscriber, you are registered as participant in mass riot" 
Immigration and refugee rights
Immigration et droits des réfugié.es 
 
Refugee claims hit 'historic low' as Ottawa's policy faces fresh criticism

The Globe and Mail
22/01/2014 - The number of people claiming refugee status in Canada reached what Ottawa calls a "historic low" in 2013 after it brought in changes to speed up the program by deterring applicants from safer countries. The changes remain unpopular with refugee advocates who say valid claims are being brushed aside. Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has also lashed out at Ontario, one of many provinces continuing to provide health care for claimants who Ottawa says want to "game the system."
"From our perspective, it's a sad day when we say we've been receiving the smallest number of refugee claimants in decades. It means that fewer people have a chance at safety and security and a future," said Janet Dench, executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees. Ms. Dench outlines other problems with the changes. Refugee claimants have too little time to prepare for their cases to be heard, she said, particularly those suffering from trauma. 

 

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Canada won't accept Palestinian refugees displaced by controversial Israeli settlements: Immigration minister

Matthew Behrens: Canada's government-sponsored law-breakers 'push the border out' 
US, NSA and mass surveillance 
États-Unis, NSA et surveillance globale 

La NSA «opère de façon illégale» 
 
Agence France-Presse 23/01/2014 - Le programme autrefois ultra-secret de collecte des métadonnées téléphoniques aux États unis par l'Agence nationale de sécurité (NSA) est illégal, selon le rapport d'une commission de contrôle indépendante qui doit être publié jeudi, consulté par l'AFP. La commission consultative, créée par le Congrès en 2007, mais en sommeil jusqu'aux premières révélations d'Edward Snowden en 2013, est composée de cinq personnalités et a pour mission de déterminer si les programmes de renseignement américains ne violent pas la vie privée des Américains et respectent les libertés fondamentales. «La commission conclut que l'article 215 ne fournit pas de base légale pour soutenir ce programme», selon le rapport, dont les conclusions ont été adoptées par trois des cinq membres. Selon eux, les auteurs de la loi voulaient donner au FBI la possibilité d'obtenir sans mandat des métadonnées dans le cadre d'une enquête, mais pas la totalité des métadonnées du pays.

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Watchdog report says N.S.A. program is illegal and should end 

Catalog of the Snowden revelations

Lawfare 23/01/2014 - This page catalogs various revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding the United States' surveillance activities. Each disclosure is assigned to one of the following categories: tools and methods, overseas USG locations from which operations are undertaken, foreign officials and systems that NSA has targeted, encryption that NSA has broken, ISPs or platforms that NSA has penetrated or attempted to penetrate, and identities of cooperating companies and governments.

 
Autres nouvelles - More news
Anti-terror legislation
Législation anti-terroriste
Airport security
Sécurité à l'aéroport  
Drones
Guantanamo 
Harper in Israel 
Irak
Iraq
Omar Khadr 
Primauté du droit
Rule of law  

Rendition to torture
Renvoi vers la torture 

Terrorisme
Terrorism
Torture
Vie privée
Privacy  

War on terror
Guerre contre le terrorisme 
Miscellaneous
Divers  

 

 
CETTE SEMAINE / THIS WEEK
- Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist
- Refugee claims hit 'historic low' as Ottawa's policy faces fresh criticism
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The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG - Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC
Action 

Tell Harper: No Secret Spying! - Dites à Harper: Non à l'espionnage secret! 
 

Openmedia.ca - Nous devons profiter de ce moment - alors que les questions de vie privée sont à l'avant-plan - pour obtenir des réponses. Exigez du gouvernement qu'il arrête ce programme d'espionnage secret, et qu'il dise aux Canadiens exactement ce qui se passe. Nous méritons de le savoir. We need to use this moment-when privacy issues are in the spotlight-to get answers. Call on the government to stop this secretive spying scheme, and to tell Canadians exactly what's going on. We deserve to know.


 

What is the News Digest? Qu'est-ce que la Revue de l'actualité?

The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-eight Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 38 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.