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RCMP commissioner expects Air India bombing report to sharply criticize Mounties
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
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But William Elliott says that's "fair and reasonable" given the problems plaguing the Canadian intelligence community at the time. Continued Below "I think there were a lot of things that were a long way from ideal," Elliott said in an interview. A...
Tags: William Elliott, RCMP, national security, Air India, CSIS, india bomb, Dennis O'Connor, Canada, Ottawa, Air India Flight 182, Maher Arar, Airport security, RCMP Security Service, Scandals surrounding the RCMP, Public Safety Canada, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Human rights mess goes beyond Tories
Halifax :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Montreal S tephen Harper's Conservatives did not initiate the culture of casual indifference to Canada's legal humanitarian obligations that has surfaced periodically in the national capital over the past decade, although they did reinforce it. After...
Tags: Canada, Afghanistan, Richard Colvin, Mr. Colvin, afghans prisoners, Halifax, Loya jirga, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Anti-communism, NATO, War in Afghanistan, Politics, War Conflict, Abousfian Abdelrazik, 39th Canadian Parliament, Liberal Party of Canada, Canadian response to Omar Khadr, Stephen Harper, Maher Arar, Omar Khadr, Kandahar, Military history of Canada, Gordon O'Connor, Taliban, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, Amir Attaran, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Year of birth uncertain, Islamic terrorism, Islamism
Arar-case lawyer sees torture déjà vu
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility In light of the human rights record of Afghanistan, you would expect that officials would check it out," says Paul Cavalluzzo. Afghanistan's widely criticized record on human rights should have been enough for Canadian officials to suspect detainees in...
Tags: Paul Cavalluzzo, human rights, Afghanistan, Arar, rights records, Syrian, Mr. Colvin, Canadian, Richard Colvin, Kabul, War in Afghanistan, Franco Pillarella, Abdullah Almalki, Public inquiries, Maher Arar, Human rights abuses, Politics
Time for truth about torture | Colin Horgan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility Time for truth about torture After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vital One man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin...
Tags: Richard Colvin, Afghanistan, Canadian, Kandahar, Human rights abuses, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, War Conflict, Military history of Canada, Canada's role in the invasion of Afghanistan, Peter MacKay, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, Human rights in Afghanistan, Politics, Public inquiries, Maher Arar, Stephen Harper, Glyn Berry, Colvin, Gordon O'Connor
RIGHTS-US: Justice to Probe Detainee Abuses
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 days ago
Credibility Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to release a long-delayed report prepared in 2004 by the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used by the CIA and some of its contractors against...
Tags: Iraq, Baghdad, Waterboarding, Violence, Enhanced interrogation techniques, Black site, Maher Arar, Human rights abuses, Torture in the United States, War crimes, Politics
Legislation to Limit Use of State Secrets Privilege an Uphill Battle
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility But, in court cases, his lawyers have followed paths identical to those used by George W...This approach to secrecy, manifested in his use of the state secrets doctrine, has triggered widespread disappointment among the progressive wing of his supporters.
Tags: NSA, Obama, George W. Bush, secrets privileged, bush administrations, obama administrations, Senate Judiciary Committee, Democratic Congress, CIA, Shubert, San Francisco, National Security Agency, Evidence law, State Secrets Privilege, NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, Maher Arar, Privacy of telecommunications, Mass surveillance, United States government secrecy, Politics, Law Crime
Sgt. Patrick Tower and Maher Arar, 2006
Toronto :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility Tower become the first ever Canadian to receive the Star of Military Valour. The courageous soldier saved at least four comrades in a brutal Afghanistan firefight. The Globe and Mail Two products of the post-9/11 world: One, a decorated soldier who fought...
Tags: Muslim-Canadian Maher Arar, Canada, Toronto, Politics, Maher Arar, Patrick Tower, Arar
Mould affecting Ottawa housing tenants' health
Aleppo :: Syria | 21 days ago
Credibility An Ottawa city councillor is questioning why a provincial bill aimed at limiting corporate contributions to municipal election candidates doesn't just ban those donations. Some residents of a west-end Ottawa community housing development say unchecked...
Tags: Maher Arar, Syria, U.S, An Ottawa, Mr. Arar, New York, United States, Mr Arar, extraordinary rendition, Canada
Liberals vow to change bankruptcy laws
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility New business managers will swear to "oppose corruption and dishonest practices" as they graduate in Ottawa this weekend. Powder contained in an envelope that prompted an anthrax scare at a Hamilton group home likely doesn't pose a danger, police say.
Tags: Canada Revenue Agency, Michael Ignatieff, U.S, Ottawa, Maher Arar
Victoria Times-Colonist, Canada: National security laws shouldn’t blanket blunders: judge
Ottawa :: Canada | 4 months ago
Credibility Security agencies cannot hide behind national secrecy laws to protect themselves from public embarrassment, says one of Canadaâs top jurists. Federal Court of Canada Justice Simon Noel used that reasoning two years ago to order the federal government...
Tags: Canadaâ, Maher Arar, Mr. Arar, arar remains, U.S
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