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Category Archives: Charter and Constitutional Rights
The no-knock entry: Why are some Canadian police behaving like Americans?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-the-no-knock-entry-why-are-some-canadian-police-behaving-lik Related Black community demanding answers from police in man’s falling death Anthony Aust fell to his death after Ottawa police executed ‘no-knock’ raid of family’s apartment CBC News · Posted: Oct 19, 2020 4:58 PM ET | Last Updated: … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Charter and Constitutional Rights, justice, News and politics, security
Tagged armed, Canada, no knock, Ottawa, police, US, violent
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RCMP and CBSA officers to face questions over Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in extradition case
Posted in Canada, Charter and Constitutional Rights, international, law, News and politics
Tagged cbsa, charter, China, extradition, Huawei, Iran, Meng Wanzhou, rcmp, rights, sanctions, US
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Federal Court rules Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement unconstitutional | Globalnews.ca
The US no longer considered a safe third country due to imprisonment when asylum seekers returned to the US including children. https://globalnews.ca/news/7205230/federal-court-rules-canada-u-s-safe-third-country-agreement-unconstitutional/
Court challenge launched over Ontario disclosure of COVID-19 testing with police
Court challenge launched over Ontario disclosure of COVID-19 testing with police https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-court-challenge-launched-over-ontario-disclosure-of-covid-19-testing/ Safety of first responders is important and so is preventing misuse of private health information. Hopefully they can find the right balance and have independent and effective oversight … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Charter and Constitutional Rights, healthcare, News and politics
Tagged access, covid, covid-19, healthcare, information, oversight, police, private
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Clearview AI to end facial-recognition services in Canada, privacy commissioner says
July 9 2020 Clearview AI to end facial-recognition services in Canada, privacy commissioner says https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-clearview-ai-to-end-facial-recognition-services-in-canada-privacy/ Related Facial recognition firm Clearview AI probed by U.K., Australia for privacy issues https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-business/european-business/article-facial-recognition-firm-clearview-ai-probed-by-uk-australia-for/
Posted in Canada, Charter and Constitutional Rights, international, News and politics, Privacy, security
Tagged ai, Australia, Canada, cleaview, facial recognition, investigation, Privacy, rcmp, UK
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Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
Zachary McCoy used an exercise-tracking app, RunKeeper, to record his rides.. image: Agnes Lopez / for NBC News Big data when used without limits or oversight often results in privacy breaches and wrongful assumptions. Police can now get personal details … Continue reading
Posted in Charter and Constitutional Rights, Computers and Internet, constitution, justice, law, News and politics, Privacy
Tagged burglary, court order, data, data providers, Google, illegal, injunction, location, police, predictive policing, Privacy, search, suspect, suspicion, third party, wrongful
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Does the B.C. gas pipeline need approval from hereditary chiefs? – Macleans.ca
Protesters at a rally in Vancouver in support of pipeline protesters in northwestern B.C. (Darryl Dyck/CP) — This explains the two types of indigenous leadership, what role they each play and why they are often not in agreement. There is … Continue reading
Posted in Charter and Constitutional Rights, law, News and politics, Oil and Gas, Sustainability
Tagged aboriginal, bc, Canada, chiefs, elected, First Nations, gas, hereditary, indigenous, leaders, oil, protests, territory, Unist’ot’en, Wet’suwet’en
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The strange tale of the paid protesters supporting Meng Wanzhou at her extradition hearing
Demonstrators outside B.C. Supreme Court on Day 1 of Meng Wanzhou’s extradition hearing Monday. Actor Julia Hackstaff, far right, says she was told she was appearing as an extra in a movie shoot. (Georgie Smyth/CBC) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paid-protesters-meng-wanzhou-1.5434613
Posted in Canada, Charter and Constitutional Rights, international, justice, law, News and politics
Tagged bc, Canada, China, extradition, fake, Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, protesters, supreme court, trial
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Ontario using new law to suppress suits over negligent government conduct, lawyers say
Ontario using new law to suppress suits over negligent government conduct, lawyers say https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-using-new-legislation-to-shut-down-class-action-suits/ Comments Very dangerous precedence. Instead of dealing with systemic issues in the justice system and elsewhere in government they have removed the ability to sue them … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Charter and Constitutional Rights, healthcare, justice, law, News and politics
Tagged Accountability, dangerous, liability, ontario, precedence
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Jury trials at risk as judge strikes down federal ban on peremptory challenges enacted after Boushie case
JUSTICE WRITER PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 6, 2019 SEAN FINE https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-judge-strikes-down-federal-ban-on-peremptory-jury-selection/
Posted in Canada, Charter and Constitutional Rights, justice, law, News and politics
Tagged aboriginal, appeal, charter, colton bushie, discrimination, indigenous, jury, legislation, rights, selection, Stanley, supreme court
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