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After two years of research and planning, Theatre Conspiracy is digging into the creation of the documentary-style play Extraction. Our international cast and team of theatre artists are in residence at The Cultch in Vancouver for the next couple of weeks to experiment before a work-in-progress presentation at Your Kontinent: Richmond International Film & Media Arts Festival on July 21. Continue reading “Extraction is in the works”
Terry Milewski
Politics
Online surveillance bill opens door for Big Brother – Politics – CBC News.
“Essentially, [this law] says that government agents may enter an ISP when they wish, without a warrant, and demand to see absolutely everything — including all data anywhere on the network — and to copy it all. If that seems hard to believe, let’s walk through it.”
Fast-moving news today about the new internet surveillance law, bill C-30.
Vic Toews, Canadian Public Safety Minister, has pulled the GW Bush card in the war against privacy: “You either stand with us, or you stand with the child pornographers.”
He denies saying this, but here’s the video:
In response, the anonymous Twitter user Vikileaks30 has launched a campaign of revealing private details of Toews’ own divorce case.
I won’t repeat any of those tweets here, since I can’t vouch for their truth.
Today, House of Commons staff handed out the “wrong” version of the new law allowing warrantless surveillance of internet traffic. The error revealed the guts of Conservative communications strategy: accuse defenders of privacy of supporting child predators.
It’s a strategy that backfired on then-opposition-leader, now Prime Minister, Harper when he accused PM Paul Martin of defending child molesters in the 2004 election. Now that Harper has a majority government, it might be more useful for battering down the scattered opposition.
Open Media.ca has a petition against the new law, bill C-30. The law grants unprecedented powers to police, and forces ISP’s to pay for surveillance technology.