Impolitical: Disgraceful
A Conservative minister stated this in the House of Commons: But when Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia attacked the Conservatives for “preparing to read Canadians’ emails and track their movements...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Mike de Souza’s report on the Cons’ attempts to hide both the oil industry’s involvement and its own lack of credibility is well worth a read in full. But...
View ArticleImpolitical: El busto
Opinion is lining up firmly against the Harper government’s internet surveillance legislation. Harris: “Bill aimed at internet predators empowers Big Brother government.” The only thing that separates...
View Articlecmkl: Michael Geist on the Harper government’s new “Lawful Access” law: it’s bad
University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist has a really good summary and critique of the Tories’ new bid to give police “Lawful Access” to ISP data and to require ISPs to install snoopware. It’s...
View ArticleImpolitical: Backtracking on #C30?
A quick post on the day’s events….in the wake of the tremendous backlash to the Conservative internet surveillance legislation, the Harper crew are making noises about amendments to C-30. See...
View ArticleImpolitical: Hilarious spin
Well now, he is the omniscient one: “Harper sensed cyber outrage was looming.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper had already made the decision to kick a controversial cyber crime bill to committee even...
View ArticleImpolitical: Conservatives against online spying & other notes
There is a letter cross-posted at OpenMedia.ca that has been sent to the members of the conservative Free Dominion site. It’s essentially an appeal for the Conservative base to contact their MPs and...
View ArticleImpolitical: Family Day drive-by blogging
Well it’s a holiday of some kind in Ontario today, that Family Day thingy. Whatever you may be doing, have a good one. Here’s a bunch of reading material, for lack of better terminology, for your day...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Border deal between Canada and U.S. raises privacy concerns
A recently unveiled border security agreement between Canada and its neighbour to the South requires Canada to step up security measures, and share more information on Canadians with the U.S. The new...
View ArticleImpolitical: Keeping an eye on the ball that is C-30
More on C-30 here. On the one hand, there was this presentation from a Vancouver police official yesterday: “People need to focus and keep their eye on the ball,” said Warren Lemcke, Vancouver’s deputy...
View ArticleImpolitical: Late night
“The state has no business in the hard drives of the nation.” You go, Rick Mercer!
View ArticleImpolitical: A pause on the internet surveillance bill?
So reports the Globe late last night: “Ottawa hits pause on Web surveillance act.” The Harper government is temporarily parking controversial legislation that would grant new powers to authorities to...
View ArticleImpolitical: The right thing to do
Case closed: Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae says one of his staffers was responsible for a series of anonymous Internet attacks aimed at Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. “I was advised yesterday that...
View ArticleImpolitical: A House of Commons marker laid down for the C-30 rewrite
This was the text of a motion passed in the House of Commons last night. The motion was brought by Liberals with a view to the coming debate at committee over C-30, the Conservatives’ proposed and...
View ArticleImpolitical: A short C-30 video
“OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis and Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian debate whether the powers proposed in Bill C-30 are needed to battle cybercrime. More at: http://bit.ly/wvdZLb.”
View ArticleImpolitical: Routine cellphone tracking in the U.S.
There is a must read as context for the Canadian C-30 legislation that is pending, the lead from the New York Times today: “Police Tracking of Cellphones Raises Privacy Fears.” The American Civil...
View ArticleImpolitical: The #TellVicEverything sequel: #TellDaveEverything
I was half joking in my post yesterday about the need for a #TellDaveEverything hashtag in the U.K. on the occasion of the U.K. Tories introducing their own intrusive internet surveillance legislation....
View ArticleImpolitical: Harper’s extra-Parliamentary internet surveillance committee
This news is a new low in the Harper government’s ongoing debasement of Parliament’s role in Canadian democracy: In the months leading up to the introduction Bill C-30, Canada’s telecom companies...
View ArticleImpolitical: Benchquest: The what to do with Vic Toews saga rolls on
Just reading Tim Harper’s latest, hot off the internets: “Vic Toews and his quest for the bench.” This part jumped out: The Court of Appeal post is a federal appointment and Harper is believed to have...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Geist: Setting the Stage for the Next Decade of Open Access
A group of researchers from around the world have been discussing a plan for ‘open access’. Their goal is one that would remove barriers to obtaining educational materials online so that the worldwide...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Hakan Bengtsson offers some useful discussion about the challenges facing Sweden’s social democratic system – as the same factors being used to prevent the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Don Pittis writes that it will take far more than words and sentiments to reverse the trend of growing income inequality. Elaine Power points out that...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.– Thomas Frank writes that a progressive party can only expect to succeed if it places principles of equality and workers’ interests at the core of...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how a change in government hasn’t done anything to slow the spread of Canada’s surveillance state – both in terms of intrusive new legislative proposals, and a continued determination to...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canada and “Five Eyes” spying partners must respect...
The final communiqué issued by the “Five Eyes” surveillance alliance after a recent meeting in Ottawa suggests what might turn out to be a made-in-Canada global encryption backdoor. The post Canada and...
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