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20th Century Laws Meet 21st Century Surveillance: Why Metadata Surveillance is a Serious Concern
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- June 11, 2013
by Michael Geist Published on www.michaelgeist.ca, June 11, 2013. The concerns about telephone and Internet surveillance moved north yesterday as the Globe revealed that Canada has its own metadata surveillance program. The program was discontinued in 2008 after concerns that it could involve illegal surveillance of Canadians, but was secretly restarted in 2011. It is
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In Defense of Academic ‘Fiddling’
- Analysis
- June 10, 2013
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 2013 Are political scientists failing to play their part as critics of the government in Canada? Lawrence Martin thinks so. Writing in the Globe and Mail last week, he lamented that academics are busy working on narrow research projects, instead of using their privileged positions to find fault
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Migrants’ Global Ties Challenge Canada to Make Big-Picture Policy
- Analysis
- June 7, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, June 6, 2013 The American writer Maya Angelou was referring to deep matters of the heart when she said, “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” The claim may resonate emotionally – but in the realm of global
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How Not to Spend $75 Billion
- Analysis
- June 6, 2013
Humanitarian motives are given as the justification for a whole series of foreign policy endeavours nowadays, from the most peaceful forms of foreign aid through to full-scale military invasion and occupation of foreign countries. How is that working out? Two books published this week provide some answers. The first book, titled How to Spend $75
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