Cracks in the Mosaic: Part 2 - by Khalid M'Seffar
An audio documentary on how Canada’s War on Terror is affecting its immigrant communities. This episode is called National Security in Canada with: Peter Leuprecht, Desmond Morton, Ward Elcock and...
View ArticleTake Back the Days: Step By Step To Ottawa
Protesters march for 8 days and 200 kilometres to Parliament Hill to demand justice for non-status migrants.read more
View ArticleThe Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
Uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities and communities of colour, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least...
View ArticleNo One Is Illegal March on Ottawa Day 5
Each evening after walking, all the marchers participate in general assemblies to make decisions about the upcoming days.
View ArticleCracks in the Mosaic: Part 1 - by Khalid M'Seffar
An audio documentary on how Canada’s War on Terror is affecting its immigrant communities. This episode of Cracks in the Mosaic is called Canada's Anti -Terrorism Strategy- Overview Bill C-36 with...
View ArticleSophie
A hard-hitting animated film that tells the story of Sophie, a young Québecoise who wins a BBQ but refuses to take the prize when she realizes that racism has tainted the contest.
View ArticleWhose Rights Anyway? (clip 3)
Sophie Harkat describes how her life has changed since her husband was arrested under a security certificate. She is completely committed to fighting this detention and this work takes up much of her...
View ArticleWhose Rights Anyway? (clip 2)
Mahamed Harkat speaks to us from his detention centre and Matthew Behrens discusses Harkat's future if he is deported.read more
View ArticleWhose Rights Anyway? (clip 1)
The Kafkaesque story of Mohamed Harkat, detained without charge in a provincial jail in Ottawa since December 10, 2002.read more
View Articleyayacanada.com
yayacanada offers extensive information, commentary, and links to media pertaining to those detained under the Security Certificate act. Based in Ottawa, Canada, and run by Corinne Allan, yayacanada is...
View ArticleThe Canadian Arab Federation
The Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) is a national not-for-profit organization with a mandate to "identify, articulate, defend and otherwise pursue the interests of the Canadian Arab community". Since...
View ArticleAnice Wong: Filmmaking for Change
Anice Wong's film Whose Rights Anyway? was screened as part of the Measuring Security Measures tour. In this clip Wong describes her reasons for making the film. When she heard about the case of...
View ArticleLawyer Paul Copeland: The Tide is Turning
Ottawa lawyer Paul Copeland believes that pressure to change Security Certificate legislation is growing.read more
View ArticleAdil Charkaoui on the Media
Adil Charkaoui discusses the role of the media in his case.read more
View ArticleLawyer Julius Grey: Security Certificates and the Future
Julius Grey explains why Security Certificates are a threat to future justice in Canada.read more
View ArticleAdil Charkaoui: Not a Question of Balance
Adil Charkaoui on the absolute nature of human rights and freedom for all people.read more
View ArticleLawyer Julius Grey: Citizenship
Julius Grey on the danger of revoking citizenship.read more
View ArticleSophie Harkat: Arrested on Human Rights Day
Sophie Harkat discusses the situation of her husband, Mohamed, who is detained on a Security Certificate.read more
View ArticleLawyer Julius Grey: Cost/Benefit
Julius Grey differentiates between appropriate and inappropriate uses of the cost/benefit analysis.read more
View ArticleAhmad Jaballah: CSIS Interrogations
Ahmad Jaballah tells of the interrogation of his father, Mahmoud Jaballah, prior to his arrest in 2001.read more
View ArticleLawyer Julius Grey: The Individual
Julius Grey warns against statistics and urges us to recognize the value of the individual person.read more
View ArticleMathew Behrens: Imagine Being a Prisoner
Activist Mathew Behrens invites the audience to imagine themselves as detainees held without trial.read more
View ArticleLawyer Julius Grey: Against a Society of Squealing
Julius Grey on the right of the individual to disobey and to refuse to conform.read more
View ArticleArshad Khan: Racial Profiling in Canada
Filmmaker Arshad Khan, whose film Threadbare was screened as part of the Measuring Security Measures tour, talks about the disillusionment he experienced when he got involved in the plight of 19...
View ArticleLawyer Sharryn Aiken: A Lot of Work to be Done
Law Professor Sharryn Aiken describes the relationship between Canada and the United Nations.read more
View ArticleHeather Mallick: Human Rights in the Canadian Media
Journalist Heather Mallick tries to explain why Canadian media are so poor at covering human rights stories.read more
View ArticleLawyer Sharryn Aiken: An Absolute Travesty
Toronto Lawyer Sharryn Aiken on the Canadian government?s justification for Security Certificates.read more
View ArticleNaava Smolash: Media Framing
Media Researcher Naava Smolash asks the audience to notice media frames and questions which vision of reality is naturalized in media representations. She gives examples from newspaper articles about...
View ArticleLawyer Sharryn Aiken: A History Lesson
Toronto Lawyer Sharryn Aiken discusses the history of the Security Certificate in Canadian law.read more
View ArticleNaava Smolash: A Short History of Fear Mongering
Media Researcher Naava Smolash cites some historical precedents for media coverage that incited fear by racializing representations of Germans, Austrians, Italians and other so called "enemy groups"...
View ArticleRiad Saloojee: Why The Media Is The Way It Is
Riad Saloojee tries to explain why problems in the media exist.read more
View ArticleRiad Saloojee: The Media Unpacked
Riad Saloojee on the problems in media coverage of security issues and how to move forward in spite of them.read more
View ArticleYasmin Jiwani: Media Concentration
Yasmin Jiwani discusses the effects of media concentration on Canadian society.read more
View ArticleYasmin Jiwani: Racism in Canada
Yasmin Jiwani on the challenge of fighting racial profiling in Canada.read more
View ArticleYasmin Jiwani: Security or Terrorism?
Communications professor Yasmin Jiwani asks us to deconstruct the Security/Terrorism discourse in the media.read more
View ArticleLawyer Zool Suleman: Self-Internment
Immigration lawyer Zool Suleman describes the phenomenon that he calls "self-internment", where people in affected communities do not come forward to speak out against racial profiling and unjust...
View ArticleWithout charge, without trial, without hope
First published in Maclean's, June 7, 2006 by Alexandre Trudeau read more
View ArticleThe Other Arars: When the Exception is the Rule
Abdullah Almaki, a Canadian engineer who was abruptly arrested on a visit to Syria in May 2003 was one of the featured speakers. Almaki spent almost two years in Syrian prisons, where he was...
View ArticleAdil Charkaoui
Adil Charkaoui spent almost two years in prison, on the basis of secret suspicions and under threat of deportation to torture. In February 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the "security...
View ArticleEp. 66: PART II: Welcome to Guantanamo North...
We've been holding back over the last two weeks only to bring you a comprehensive new 3-part podcast!read more
View ArticleEp. 67 - PART III: Welcome to Guantanamo North...
We've been holding back over the last two weeks only to bring you a comprehensive new 3-part podcast!read more
View ArticleSmokescreen, an insider's book on CSIS
We live, we are told, in a dangerous world. More than six years after the Sept. 11, 2001, multiple terrorist attacks against the United States and despite spending billions of collective dollars on the...
View ArticleCoalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
The Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui formed in Montreal in a matter of days after Charkaoui's abrupt arrest. The Coalition is an alliance of Muslim groups, refugee and immigrant rights...
View ArticleAdil Charkaoui & Justice
Adil Charkaoui was finally released from prison on bail. It is only fitting that his name is a translation for "justice."
View ArticleReunited!
In 2006, wrongly accused suspected-terrorist, Mohamed Harkat was released from prison and reunited with his beloved wife, Sophie.Sophie had led many protests and demonstrations against her husband's...
View ArticleSecurity Certificates and Secret Trials in Canada, Part 1 of 2
This podcast, from Community News Net and CKUT radio, addresses what producers have called a "not so fundamental right". The topic covers the issue of security certificate and Bill C-3 where at least...
View ArticleWhat is a Security Certificate or Bill C-3?
By Coalition Justice for Adil CharkaouiA "security certificate" is part of the Canadian immigration system. It has been around since 1976, with the current process adopted in 1988 for non-citizens. The...
View ArticleBill C3: Security Certificate Special Advocate Model
This podcast clearly defines Bill-C3 and the situation taking place here in Canada where individuals are subject to the highly controvercial "security certificate" process.read more
View ArticleEp. 97 - Canada's National (In)security 2009
With now eight years to reflect and look back, Canada’s so-called ‘security measures’ adopted within the climate of the post-September 11, 2001, ‘war against terrorism’ have inarguably shown that...
View Articlehe sings
Political and critical view of the capture of Omar Khadr by the US in 2002. Poem and voice by Fortner Anderson. Music, noise and tape manipulation by tape/head. Recorded in Montreal in 2006. Also see...
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