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From policing cyber crime to tackling foreign interference and contract policing — are we asking too much of the RCMP? @spaikin.bsky.social puts the question to Jason Easton, @cattunney.bsky.social (CBC), and Kent Roach ( @uoftlaw.bsky.social) tonight at 8/11pm
June 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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What's behind the proposed changes to the RCMP's mandate and mission? At 8/11pm with national security reporter @cattunney.bsky.social (CBC), "Canadian Policing" author Kent Roach (@uoftlaw.bsky.social), former Trudeau senior advisor Jason Easton, and @spaikin.bsky.social.
June 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Poilievre disagrees with conservative dean Preston Manning that a Carney win will fuel Western secession. @cattunney.bsky.social reports. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Poilievre disagrees with conservative dean Preston Manning that a Carney win will fuel Western secession | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promoted national unity and downplayed former Reform leader Preston Manning's argument that a vote for Mark Carney's Liberal is a vote for Western secession during...
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April 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
cattunney.bsky.social
In an exclusive interview, Trudeau laid out why he believes the Mounties should get out of the boots-on-the ground policing they provide in provinces across the country and focus on national crimes instead.

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In one of his final moves as prime minister, Trudeau argues for bold RCMP reform | CBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using some of his final hours in office to call for a drastic and controversial shakeup to one of the country’s most emblematic institutions: the RCMP.
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March 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Canada's cyber intelligence agency is warning that countries including China, Russia and Iran will "very likely" lean on artificial intelligence to try and interfere in the upcoming federal election and mislead voters.
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China, Russia will 'very likely' use AI to target Canadian voters: Intelligence agency | CBC News
Canada's cyber intelligence agency is warning that countries including China, Russia and Iran will "very likely" lean on artificial intelligence to try and interfere in the upcoming federal election a...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Live updates as Canada fights back against 25% U.S. tariffs | CBC
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March 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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a woman in a fur coat is standing in the dark with her arms outstretched and a cooler in her hand .
ALT: a woman in a fur coat is standing in the dark with her arms outstretched and a cooler in her hand .
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January 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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RCMP asks for help handling troubling number of kids radicalizing online, @cattunney.bsky.social reports. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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RCMP asks for help handling troubling number of kids radicalizing online | CBC News
When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs. Now the Mountie says there’s a growing need to teach counter-radicalizatio...
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December 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Ex-min says CSIS's national security fears were key to his decision to deny Canadian a passport. Abousfian Abdelrazik is suing Ottawa for $27M, accusing it of contributing to his mistreatment abroad @cattunney.bsky.social reports. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Ex-minister says CSIS's national security fears were key to his decision to deny Canadian a passport | CBC News
Former foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon says that while he received conflicting advice about whether to issue an emergency passport  to a Canadian citizen living in exile in Sudan, he was sway...
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December 10, 2024 at 10:25 PM
cattunney.bsky.social
Not enough of you treat Little Women (2019) as a Christmas rewatch and it shows
December 9, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Senators amend error in cybersecurity bill that could have cancelled half of it, @cattunney.bsky.social reports. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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December 6, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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One detail that struck me in this story is how Daniel was the only person covering the trial of a mafia hitman in a city the size of Montreal.

To add to your list of the effects of dying local journalism: The fact covering this trial solo helped make him a target.
November 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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The RCMP says it's considering deploying Mounties-in-training to help police the Canada-U.S. border as political anxiety over border control mounts in the face of tariff threats from the incoming Trump administration.

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RCMP commissioner open to deploying cadets to harden the border | CBC News
The RCMP says it's considering deploying Mounties-in-training to help police the Canada-U.S. border as political anxiety over border control mounts in the face of tariff threats from the incoming Trump administration.
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December 3, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Fate of cybersecurity bill targeting Huawei uncertain after senator finds 'drafting error,' @cattunney.bsky.social reports www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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November 29, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Parole board to hear serial killer Paul Bernardo's latest bid for release, Bernardo has been designated a dangerous offender and denied parole twice already, @cattunney.bsky.social reports. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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November 26, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Public Safety Minister LeBlanc "has been assured by the chairperson of the Parole Board she is RECONSIDERING" decision to bar French and Mahaffy families from addressing Bernardo in person next week, says his office just now
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The lawyer representing the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy — tortured and killed in two of the most heinous crimes in modern Canadian history — argues his clients have a right to confront their daughters' killer in person.

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November 20, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Boissonnault out of cabinet after shifting claims about Indigenous heritage

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Boissonnault out of cabinet after shifting claims about Indigenous heritage | CBC News
Alberta MP Randy Boissonnault has resigned from cabinet amid allegations about his business dealings and criticism of his shifting claims about his Indigenous ancestry.
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November 20, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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The lawyer representing the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy — tortured and killed in two of the most heinous crimes in modern Canadian history — argues his clients have a right to confront their daughters' killer in person.

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November 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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Trial of alleged neo-Nazi terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' begins in Ottawa

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Trial of alleged neo-Nazi propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' begins in Ottawa | CBC News
Using the online alias "Dark Foreigner," an Ottawa man made hate propaganda videos and images for an international neo-Nazi organization to promote hatred against Jews and others, federal Crown prosecutors alleged at the beginning of Patrick Gordon Macdonald's trial on Monday.
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November 19, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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The Canadian Security Intelligence Service's objective was to keep Abousfian Abdelrazik detained in Sudan, a former diplomat who worked on the case testified Monday.

Abdelrazik is suing Ottawa for $27M, accusing it of contributing to his mistreatment abroad

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CSIS did not want Abdelrazik to return to Canada, former diplomat tells court | CBC News
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service's objective was to keep Abousfian Abdelrazik detained in Sudan, a former diplomat who worked on the case testified Monday in a hearing on the Montreal man's lawsuit against the federal government.
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November 18, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Conservative MPs frustrated after Poilievre bars them from promoting housing fund: sources. One party source says MPs are being prevented from helping cities 'for partisan reasons' www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli
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November 14, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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"We live for books."
Umberto Eco.

🎨Friedrich Frotzel, The old book case, 1929.
November 13, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Ottawa Playbook Scoop:

Conservative MP Jamil Jivani catching up over lunch Wednesday with law school pal and Vice President-elect JD Vance in the Senate dining room.

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Ottawa Playbook
Ottawa and Washington on split-screen in the early days of Trump 2.0.
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November 14, 2024 at 12:51 PM
cattunney.bsky.social
The size and unique mandate of the RCMP makes this the largest and most ambitious rollout of body cameras in Canada.

The RCMP's profile also likely means its program will attract added scrutiny over when the cameras are used and who gets access to the footage.

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RCMP prepares to deploy body cameras to thousands of officers nationwide | CBC News
The RCMP is set to give an update today on its plans to attach cameras to frontline officers later this month, marking a monumental shift in how Mounties and Canadians interact.
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November 14, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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The former premier of B.C., John Horgan has died. More coming.
A bald man.
November 12, 2024 at 7:34 PM