The federal government’s no-fly list still includes children who have been confused for potential terrorists—and those errors could soon be exacerbated
Once reserved for “immediate” threats to airplanes, the country’s no-fly database is about to get much bigger
One very long delay at the airport
How an artist snitches on himself to elude FBI
Newly released documents reveal why CSIS placed Hani Al Telbani on Canada’s ‘no-fly list’
New documents reveal a fight over defining an ‘immediate threat’
A Montreal Muslim stuck on the no-fly list is fighting to get off
Al Telbani is on the no-fly list, but how many others are there?
In this week’s magazine, Mike Friscolanti and I write about the only guy to have ever been denied entry onto an airplane for being on Canada’s no-fly list. Also, Gilles Duceppe is in trouble. Read more after this little jump here.
According to two exclusive reports in Maclean’s (here and here) the man—a Concordia University master’s student named Hani Al Telbani—was not allowed past the check-in counter when he showed up for a flight at Trudeau Airport in early June. Instead of a boarding pass, a Transport Canada official handed him an ‘Emergency Direction’ that declared him “an immediate threat to aviation security.” It marked the first and only time a passenger has been denied boarding as a result of Canada’s new no-fly list.