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Colin Freeze retweeted
I wrote over 1,200 stories for VICE (a few of which are actually good!) so to choose a some to highlight here is hard but I’ll try.
1/4 So one of the things that appears to be at issue here may relate to whether police have ways to access, through data broker vendors, to geolocation data posted by users of specific Internet services....
Privacy Commissioner raises concerns over RCMP’s use of private tech to surveil web theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
4/4 Bottom line is that the @PrivacyPrivee v @rcmpgrcpolice spat shows tensions over what is fair law-enforcement 'open source' intelligence-gathering circa in 2024 -- especially when police hire vendors with ex-@CIA OSINT types
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1/3) Industry pushback preceded government decision to leave in limbo a regulatory law passed in hopes of saving lives : #nspoli FOI
Nova Scotia reviewed bar-bouncer law shortly after man’s death, but left it inactive, documents show /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
3/3) One additional consequence of the 13-year legal void is that a 1970s law remains in place despite it being "outdated" and "not amended in 45 years"
Colin Freeze retweeted
Two women were murdered in 1983. Four decades later, Toronto police used genetic genealogy to solve the case theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
From CP's @JimBronskill , China tangents arose in R v. Ortis:
"Ortis saved a document with images of business cards of two [PRC] diplomats"
Later a judge wrote this “could be interpreted as circumstantial evidence of Mr. Ortis preparing to share" classified material
What the Cameron Ortis jury didn’t hear during weeks of testimony theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
From @shanedingman , news of a major #cdnpoli real estate prosecution collapsing apparently due to delay (R v Jordan). “We cannot begin, let alone complete, a trial on the merits in the allotted time."
Crown stays charges of bid rigging in condo renovations theglobeandmail.com/real-est…
Colin Freeze retweeted
Crown stays charges of bid rigging in condo renovations theglobeandmail.com/real-est…
If the ranks of @FBI special agents declined dramatically, Americans would debate whether
that's a get-out-of-jail-free card for spies, terrorists, mobsters
But a new #cdnpoli study suggests that's quietly been happening in Canada @rcmpgrcpolice
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Fix the RCMP or create a new federal force, parliamentarians tell government theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
A 2021 tragedy is front page news as prosecutors reveal arguments that the accused is alleged to be a confessed white nationalist.
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Here, a @globeandmail video from 2021 highlighting the immigrant family killed in the strike:
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Colin Freeze retweeted
“Every night is a nightmare.” Ryan Sawyer’s death puts #NovaScotia’s failure to bring its own bouncer law into force under spotlight, from @Colinfreeze and me #NSpoli #NSlegislature theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
In this @globeandmail story, @LindsayLeeJones and I explore how a man's death in Halifax speaks to a regulatory vacuum -- and a systemic #cdnpoli & #nspoli failing, when statutes are kept in stasis as legislatures defer proclamation powers to cabinet.
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Further to today's #cdnpoli G&M story theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… researchers are now tweeting actual aide-memoire memos of 1971 Canada's spy chief's "cause for uneasiness" re: PMO overtures to RCMP
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1/2 For #cdnpoli purposes its so serendipitous that the illustrating photo has John Turner ( a security dove) whispering counsel in (security hawk) Pierre Elliott Trudeau's ear. According to 1969 cabinet minutes, they argued about how to use soldiers and police in Quebec
Pierre Trudeau’s office ran secret intelligence unit to quell separatist movement in Quebec, researchers find theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
Here's what @globeandmail reported in 1992 about the '69 cabinet minutes and future PM John Turner's "eloquent, dove-like pleas" to PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau. (Sorry no URL for 92 article)
