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National security and accountability
Sécurité nationale et responsabilité
Trudeau's decision on national security file promising and risky, experts say
The Toronto Star 11/11/2015 - Goodale, a past cabinet minister under former prime ministers Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien, chairs another cabinet committee on Canada in the World and Public Security, and Trudeau took charge of the even smaller group of trusted ministers to oversee intelligence matters. [...] Roach said with the positioning of Trudeau and Goodale on the file, the government may actually be "inching towards" the kind of accountability envisaged by the Air India inquiry, which was that "at the end of the day, someone has to be in charge, and we can't exist in this environment of bureaucratic defensiveness and plausible deniability." "One of the concerns we have about the way we manage national security and  anti-terrorism in our country is that no one's in charge, or on some issues everyone's in charge," said Forcese. Roach served as an adviser on judicial inquiries into two national security system failures - the American rendition to torture of Syrian-Canadian Maher Arar, and the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182. Both urged stronger review of spy and policing agencies. [...] Overall, the three academics argued Tuesday for a broad and open discussion about many of the security law reforms that the Conservatives rushed in last year in the wake of court defeats and the October 2014 attacks on Canadian soldiers by ISIS-inspired assailants in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Ottawa. Wark called for a formal public cross-country consultations on Canada's national security system. They said it is unfathomable that the federal government has never conducted a public "lessons learned" exercise into the security and intelligence failures that led up to those events and which led to such a transformation of the legal system.
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Ottawa Citizen 09/11/2015 - On Nov. 19, Diab's Paris lawyers will appear before a panel of three other judges in an effort to have intelligence evidence in the case withdrawn on the basis that it is unreliable and flawed. Canadian federal prosecutors, who acted for the French government during Diab's extradition hearing, were forced to withdraw the intelligence because they didn't know its source and couldn't prove that it had not been gleaned from  torture. If the lawyers' bid is successful, prosecutors would be left with several other pieces of evidence, the most important of which is analysis of writing taken from a Paris hotel register. Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger ordered Diab's extradition in 2011 after saying that he found the handwriting evidence "illogical, very problematic, convoluted, very confusing with conclusions that are suspect." Maranger said that if a fair trial were held in Canada, it would be unlikely Diab would be convicted, but the judge added that the low threshold of Canadian extradition law left him with no choice but to hand the academic over to France. A decision on the Nov. 19 application will take about a month Read more - Lire plusCanada must demand fair investigation by France in case of Hassan Diab |
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Islamophobie
Islamophobia
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Migration and refugee rights
Immigration et droits des réfugié.es
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Press freedom
Liberté de la presse
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Privacy
Vie privée
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Reflections on the war on terror
Réflexions sur la guerre au terrorisme
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Surveillance
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Torture
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Action
NEW Tell Prime Minister Trudeau to consult with Canadians now, while there's still time to undo C-51
OpenMedia - Prime Minister Trudeau has said C-51 is a top priority,1 but we must ensure Canadians are at the centre of the process. If we aren't consulted, we could miss our chance to fully repeal the dangerous powers in this bill. C-51 was rammed into law  without meaningful public consultation. Its unprecedented new spy powers are too far-reaching to address behind closed doors. Over 300,000 Canadians have spoken against the reckless, dangerous, and ineffective bill. If we don't act quickly, we'll lose our chance. ACT NOW: Tell Prime Minister Trudeau to launch a public consultation.
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Action
Let Khaled leave Egypt!
Free Khaled Al-Qazzaz - Write to your MP to ask them to urge the Egyptian authorities to remove the travel ban on Canadian resident Khaled  Al-Qazzaz so he can finally be free after being detained without charges for a year and a half and released since January 2015 but prevented from leaving the country.
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Action
Saudi Arabia: Stop the execution of juvenile activist Ali al-Nimr
Amnesty International - Two courts have upheld the death sentence against a Shi'a activist. He has exhausted his appeals and may be executed as soon as the King ratifies the sentence. Ali al-Nimr was sentenced to death on 27 May 2014 for offences he is alleged to have committed when he was 17 years old. The court seems to  have based its decision on "confessions" which Ali al-Nimr has said were extracted under torture and other ill-treatment and has refused to look into this allegation. When Ali al-Nimr was arrested in February 2012 he was not allowed to see his lawyer. He has said that GDI officers tortured him to make him sign a "confession". Read more and sign the petition now!
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Action
PM Trudeau: Call on the UAE to free Canadian citizen Salim Alaradi now!
ICLMG - Salim Alaradi, a Canadian citizen and father of 5 young children, has been detained without charge in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)  since August 2014. We are also worried that he was tortured. His health is deteriorating quickly as his family has informed us this week. Write to Prime Minister Trudeau to urge him to call on the UAE to free Salim Alaradi now!
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Action
Signez la pétition pour libérer le blogueur saoudien Raif Badawi
 Amnistie internationale - Raif Badawi, prisonnier d'opinion en Arabie saoudite, risque la mort pour avoir offert un débat sur la liberté religieuse. Exigeons des autorités saoudiennes que les coups de fouet cessent immédiatement, que Raif soit libéré sans condition, et qu'il soit réuni avec sa famille réfugiée au Canada. Exigeons de cet État qu'il respecte ses obligations en matière de droits humains et qu'il abolisse la flagellation.  English petition
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Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
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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. +++
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.
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d'un article litigieux du Code de la sécurité routière. Celui-ci interdit «toute action concertée» destinée à entraver la circulation. Mais cette disposition «enfreint les libertés d'expression et de réunion pacifique protégées par les chartes québécoise et canadienne», écrit le magistrat. «Cette limitation n'est pas justifiée dans le cadre d'une société libre et démocratique.» Le gouvernement a six mois pour modifier le Code de la sécurité routière afin de se conformer à la décision de justice.
previously argued that ending the collection of just one person's telephone information records would be so technically challenging that it would be forced to shut the entire program down. On Monday afternoon, Department of Justice spokesperson Nicole Navas would only say that "the government is reviewing the decision." The NSA was already rushing to make its Congressionally mandated November 29 deadline to shut down the program and replace it with something more targeted.
university's Human Rights Research and Education Centre and Centre for International Policy Studies, "Arar +10" reviewed the state of national security and human rights in Canada a decade after a public inquiry was established to investigate the rendition to Syria and torture of Canadian citizen Maher Arar. From a range of panels key recommendations emerged. The conference's recommendations are particularly timely as the new federal government prepares to introduce legal and other reforms reversing or revising national security and citizenship laws and practices.
promote and favour the interests of Canadian mining companies and to influence decisions over extractive projects and related policies. The trend of repression and deregulation in Canada to favour mining, oil, and gas projects is consistent with the model that the Canadian government promotes abroad. Concluding with a series of ideas and recommendations for discussion, the report seeks to spur debate and foster creative action to protect dissent in defence of land and the environment, and to question Canada's role in promoting the underlying economic development model that is putting communities at such a deadly disadvantage.
