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CANADIAN SECURITY
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PM slammed, defended for 9/11 remarks
CBC.ca, Friday, September 13, 2002
" 'You cannot exercise your powers to the point of humiliation for the others,' Chrétien said. 'And that is what the Western world – not only the Americans, the Western world – has to realize. Because they are human beings, too.' The prime minister also said that if the gap between rich and poor continues to grow, there will be 'long-term consequences' within a few decades. 'And necessarily, we’re looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And the 11th of September is an occasion for me to realize it even more.' "
The Most Dangerous Cities in Canada
Macleans, Monday, March 24, 2008, p. 38-42
"The top three high-crime communities also have proportionately the largest urban Aboriginal populations of any Canadian cities…The gross overrepresentation of Aboriginals in custody is both an indicator of the problem and part of the reason it is perpetuated," 41.
Tories warned about stand on natives
Globe and Mail, Wednesday, April 9, 2008, p. A10
"The Conservative government’s 'to bad, so sad' approach to Canadian aboriginals will be to blame if natives increasingly turn to confrontation and protest, former prime minister Paul Martin warned…"
The state of emergency
Ottawa Citizen, Saturday, April 12, 2008
"After the terrorist attacks on the US, government officials promised a plan to secure our critical infrastructure. Seven years later, it still hasn’t happened."
In their own fanatical words
National Post, Saturday, April 26, 2008, p. A16
Latest terror threats ‘scare us’: senior Mountie. Detailed plots to harm Canadians ‘keep me awake at night’, Ottawa Citizen, Thursday, May 8, 2008
"The RCMP is investigating seven suspected terrorist plots so disturbing they 'keep me awake at night,' the senior Mountie for national security disclosed yesterday."
Aboriginal Protests Watched by CSIS
National Post, Friday, June 27, 2008, p. A6
"Canadian security officials kept a close watch on aboriginal rights protests across the country last summer, fearing violence and disruption, according to newly declassified government documents."
CSIS turning to natives in search of information
Globe and Mail, Saturday, November 29, 2008, p. A4
"Canadian spies are trying to recruit informants on a Quebec Mohawk reserve, telling their targets they’re probing the national security threat posed by radical native groups… "
Suspected spy ring in Canada for years: report
National Post, Friday, December 5, 2008, p. A9
"A suspected foreign spy network operated in Canada for at least five years using a myriad of corporations and Canadian banks to buy restricted material, move money and circumvent export controls… "
We Need People
National Post, Thursday, March 12, 2009
"The RCMP told us last year that it only has the resources to track one-third of the Canadian criminal organizations that it knows exist."
Greenpeace shuts down Shell mine - Concerns raised after 20 activists breach security, halting operations for hours, EdmontonJournal.com, Wednesday, September 16, 2009
"Alberta’s vast oilsands operations could be vulnerable to terrorist attack… after more than 20 Greenpeace activists infiltrated Shell’s Muskeg River Mine, prompting the company to shutter its 155,000-barrel-a-day operation for several hours."
Think we’re immune to terrorist attacks?
National Post, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, p. A14
"Almost any government attempt to fight terrorism is portrayed as an overreaction or an assault on liberty."
Canadians embrace new role for military”
Globe and Mail, Friday, November 6, 2009
"Canadians largely support a military presence in Canada’s north, but that’s a matter of 'standing on guard' for sovereignty, not advancing into war."
Baby-boom exodus threatens policing
Ottawa Citizen, Saturday, November 14, 2009
"The question that needs to be asked is, are we at risk, are we vulnerable in Canada for safety and security in the future?"
Undermining the rule of the law
National Post, Friday, November 20, 2009, p. A14
"It is not only the preferential treatment of aboriginals that corrodes the rule of law, it is also the abandonment of non-aboriginal citizens by their government and the police – the way the Browns felt forced to defend themselves as a last resort – that damages the web of society."