RCMP News Release in response to a Globe and Mail article - William J.S. Elliott, Commissioner - Lawrence Martin suggested that my use of the title Assistant Deputy Minister in relation to the senior executive communications position the RCMP intends to establish deserves an explanation and the consideration of additional facts. I agree.
As Mr. Martin [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Big Brother'
Re: “A plan to muzzle the RCMP?”
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Big Brother · Broken Force · Commissioner of the RCMP · Political/Government Interference or Involvement
Kafka in Canada: RCMP’s secret files fuel controversy
April 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Rosie Lombardi (InterGovWorld.com) - Privacy organizations are calling for intensified scrutiny and oversight of the RCMP’s information management practices, which have failed to comply with government policy for almost 20 years.
Serious issues were brought to light in a recent audit of the RCMP’s exempt files conducted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada [...]
Tags: Abuse By Mounties · Attempted Cover Up · Big Brother · Breach Of Trust · Broken Force · Commissioner of the RCMP · Corruption within the RCMP · Human Rights · Mounties Breaking The Law · Mounties Investigating Mounties · Public Complaints · RCMP Oversight · Senior Management · Shoddy Investigations · Your Tax Dollars In Action
Fall on sword or become ‘roadkill,’Fall on sword or become ‘roadkill,’ Mountie told Mountie told
April 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Essica Leeder, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A high-ranking Mountie ensnared in the RCMP pension scandal said the House of Commons’ top legal officer privately offered her a chance to avoid becoming “roadkill” in a campaign to have her cited for contempt of Parliament.
The proposal by veteran law clerk Rob Walsh would have required that [...]
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Information stewardship still open to breaches
March 10th, 2008 · No Comments
David Canton (London Free Press) - There is a troubling worldwide trend to increased government surveillance and collection of personal information on individuals. Does it enhance public safety and law enforcement or is it just “security theatre” that tends to make people conform to social norms because they think they are being watched?
The Ontario Privacy [...]
Tags: Big Brother · Mounties Breaking The Law · RCMP · Senior Management
Watching me, watching you
February 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Editor’s Viewpoint, Bay St. George, N.F. (The Georgian) - Well-known children’s author and cartoonist Dr. Seuss has pleased generations with his snappy rhymes and clever witticisms.
One of his most famous and oft repeated phrases is, “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t [...]
Tags: Big Brother · RCMP
RCMP Improving Management of Its Exempt Data Banks in Response to Privacy Commissioner’s Report
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
RCMP Press Release - Ottawa — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police today announced measures to improve the management of its exempt data banks by implementing all of the recommendations concerning the banks made by Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart in her report to Parliament.
“We will be implementing every one of this report’s recommendations,” said Chief Superintendent [...]
Tags: Big Brother · RCMP
RCMP improperly hiding information in secret data banks: privacy watchdog
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Ottawa (Canadian Press) - Canada’s privacy watchdog has uncovered numerous problems with secret RCMP data banks that hold sensitive information about Canadians.
In a special report to Parliament, Jennifer Stoddart suggests two data banks operated by the Mounties have become uncontrolled hiding places for personal information.
The RCMP has two so-called exempt banks, one containing criminal intelligence [...]
Tags: Big Brother · RCMP · RCMP Oversight
Canada working with FBI on ’server in the sky’
January 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Bill Curry, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - Canada is working with the FBI on a system called Server in the Sky that would see fingerprint and iris scan data shared around the world to nab individuals running from the law.
The personal information on the database would be used by Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia [...]
Tags: Big Brother · RCMP
RCMP kept a close eye on Levesque
November 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Elizabeth Thompson (Montreal Gazette) - A secret RCMP file on former Quebec Premier Rene Levesque alleges that he suffered from sexual problems and was so drawn to very young women that it left his party at times in an embarrassing situation.
New files obtained by The Montreal Gazette under the Access to Information and Privacy Act [...]
Tags: Big Brother · RCMP
RCMP whistleblowers honoured in private
June 29th, 2007 · No Comments
Jessica Leeder and Greg McArthur, Globe and Mail
Five whistle-blowers who jeopardized their careers trying to force the RCMP to investigate allegations of internal corruption, nepotism and mismanagement were quietly awarded the force’s highest honour in a closed ceremony this week.
Gathered with their families around a horseshoe-shaped table at an upscale Ottawa steakhouse Wednesday, the cadre [...]
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