When the Cops Come Calling: An Expert Workshop for Journalists
Peter Jacobsen, a CJFE director whose clients include the Globe and Mail, CTV, Corus and other media, will discuss the current state of media law with Susan Harada, head of journalism at Carleton University on October 10th at the Canada 2020 Studio at 35 O’Connor St., Suite 300. Admission is free.
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Free expression groups oppose Ontario government plan for universities and colleges
The Center for Free Expression and the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression deplore the Ontario Government's attempt to influence, through intimidation and the withholding of funds, the internal autonomous decision-making processes of Ontario universities and colleges in matters of free expression.
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Two-Thirds of Canadians Say Journalistic Source Material Should be Shielded From Police
But Canadians divided over whether security agencies should use public data to monitor citizens
TORONTO (May 22, 2018) – A strong majority of Canadians say journalists should not be required to turn over confidential information to police, according to a survey released today. But Canadians are divided over whether national security agencies should have the power to collect and analyze publicly available information on Canadians.
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Hard Questions for Canada’s Most Secret Agency
The lack of transparency of Canada’s signals intelligence agency, the CSE, makes it impossible to fully understand how it operates, or how the proposed CSE Act will change elements of its operations. Before having a debate about what the CSE should be allowed to do under the new law, we need to better understand both its past and present conduct.
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Why we sent copies of a video game to Canada's Parliament and Senate
CJFE has partnered with publisher Surprise Attack Games to send 443 license keys for the video game Orwell: Ignorance is Strength to Canadian Members of Parliament and Senators. We are doing this as part of an educational initiative to familiarize Canada’s lawmakers with the ethical implications of new espionage powers that would be created for Canada’s spies following the passage of Bill C-59, An Act respecting national security matters. CJFE is concerned that many of the same fictional powers on display in Orwell: Ignorance is Strength are being made available to Canada’s very real cyber spies through Bill C-59, a deeply troubling update to the widely opposed Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015 (Formerly, Bill C-51).
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Facebook TwitterSo sounds like you are ready for Big Papa Gov to regulate the news. Sounds like China Turkey and other authoritarian regimes.
How about this " fake news" we supposedly need 5o be protected from. Do you have ANY good examples of fake news that have ACTUALLY harmed us?