Canada
Canada Says Critics Don’t Understand Its Surveillance Bill
They do. That’s the problem.
Canada’s Pay-To-Play Press Pass
The government built a press pass out of a tax form and the prime minister’s office helped decide who got one.
Anonymous Canadian Sues DHS to Stop Google From Revealing His Identity Over Critical Posts
The US government is using a 96-year-old customs fraud statute to hunt down a Canadian over tweets.
Canada House of Commons Tracks Online Posts About MPs
Parliament will not say what’s in the database, only that it sorts your posts by tone.
Cybersecurity Experts Demand Canada Scrap Bill C-22 Backdoor
The bill that promises not to surveil Canadians requires a year of every Canadian’s location data sitting on private servers.
Canada’s Carney Revives Online Censorship Bill
The bill that died with Trudeau’s election call is back, and so is the advisory panel that wrote it.
Canada’s Public Safety Minister Defends Mass Surveillance Bill
The minister insists the bill targeting every Canadian’s location data, movement patterns, and daily routines isn’t a surveillance bill.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians
The government insists it isn’t surveilling ordinary Canadians; it’s just requiring every company to store their location data, device information, and daily movements for a year, just in case.
Court Confirms Trudeau’s Emergencies Act Invocation Against Freedom Convoy Was Illegal
The damage is already done, but it turns out freezing the bank accounts of civil liberties protesters was never legal to begin with.
Faith on Trial in Canada as Parliament Moves to Rewrite the Rules of Speech
The fight over Bill C-9 concerns “hate speech” and the struggle over who defines the boundaries of faith.
Digital IDs and AI Dreams: How Canada and Europe Plan to Sync the Future
As Europe and Canada link their digital identity and AI systems, the line between secure connectivity and centralized oversight grows increasingly thin.
Edmonton Becomes First in Canada to Test Facial Recognition Body Cameras in Police Pilot Program
A city becomes a testing ground for the uneasy fusion of public safety and algorithmic gaze.