14 posts in Civil Liberties from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether police can force Google to hand over the location of every phone near a crime scene. American licence-plate cameras…
Rights for some, but not for you. Here, a student government official tears down a free speech wall at Carleton. The wall was set up by the “Students for…
Here’s something I didn’t know 24 hours ago. Did you know that it is illegal for anyone in the National Capital Region to use the term “Parliament Hill” to…
During the London and UK riots last week, many commentators — myself included — wondered about a social media shutdown and mobile shutdown in affected areas.…
What mistake did these students make? They forgot to identify themselves as bombastic foreign Members of Parliament whom have provided material support to…
Sunday at around 5pm, the story hit the blackberries of government staffers and journalists alike in Ottawa that over 200,000 pages of classified documents…
Today Senator Doug Finley rose in the Senate to give notice that he would “call the attention of the Senate to the issue of the erosion of Freedom of Speech in…
The CRTC released a report on June 4th, 2009 titled “Review of broadcasting in new media, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-329.” However, on the CRTC…
“We have to chart a path somehow in which we make some hard choices, some lesser evils, that is to say I’m not sure we can keep to a pure civil libertarian…