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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'publicsafety'

November 23, 2007

Dual protests are set for tomorrow afternoon in Vancouver and Toronto in an effort to maintain media awareness of the misuse of force by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that led to the death of Robert Dziekanski, captured on video by a witness. The video, since viewed (in its various incarnations) by millions of people, documents a confused and clearly agitated Dziekanski sweating and pacing until a fatal confrontation with four RCMP officers killed......

Continue Reading "Taser Terror "

December 20, 2004

Like most media outlets, Torontoist loves those hot button issues. And right now, what hot button issue is hotter than Canadian spies operating overseas? In a year-end interview with the Edmonton Sun, Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan finally got around to addressing Canada's imminent spy problem. "We may want to redefine the existing section of the CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) legislation to give them broader powers abroad, and perhaps to gather different kinds of......

Continue Reading "Spies Like Us"

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