“Confiscate and revoke the passports and citizenship of those involved in terrorist activities including their immediate family. Muslims protect Muslims.” That’s the anonymous comment made by one self-identified Atlantic Canadian as part of the federal government’s online public consultation on national security. The feedback was collected last fall to gain insight into what reforms Canadians […]
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Paris to weigh heavily on Halifax International Security Forum
[IMage-1] Paris will be a hot topic of conversations this weekend when international government and military officials meet with academic and corporate leaders at the annual Halifax International Security Forum. As Stefon would say, this forum has everything: Peter MacKay, ISIS, a badass new Minister of Defence, wordplay, the military-industrial complex, Charlie Hebdo, New Brunswick […]
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Get out and shut down Bill C-51 (before it’s too late)
[Image-1] Halifax will join cities across the country on Saturday to protest a bill giving Canada’s intelligence agency sweeping surveillance powers. A broad coalition of citizens and advocacy organizations are concerned the federal government’s Anti-Terrorism Act will create a secret police force and impinge on democratic dissent. Simultaneous demonstrations are planned in cities across Canada […]
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Drew Butler arrested, released over Mic Mac Mall threats
[Image-1] “I just kept telling them, ‘I don’t know what’s going on.’” Drew Butler didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. The 24-year-old had been playing video games yesterday at his Clayton Park apartment while Halifax Police were frantically trying to arrest him. Someone had anonymously sent in a tip to the cops that […]
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OneLight Theatre’s Terror within
“We are all affected by war, whether we realize it or not,” says Shahin Sayadi, artistic director of Halifax’s OneLight Theatre. “It influences so much, from the price of food and gas, to our connections with soldiers who go and come back, or who go and don’t. “And since 9/11, we are all forced to […]