Mill v. Kant
Craig Forcese considers Vic Toews’ directive to CSIS.
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torture
The Commons: The wild west
Who needs warning shots when you’ve got torture?
The ticking time bomb
The idea that torture might be used to obtain the information necessary to avert a terrorist attack was revived in the wake of...
The Commons: Starring Vic Toews as Kurt Russell
Conservative ministers have shown tremendous hypothetical courage in the face of hypothetical danger
’On the same moral ground as regimes like Syria’
Paul Dewar blasts Vic Toews’ directive .
The Commons: The government’s tortured answers on torture
Imagine a riddle wrapped in an episode of ’24’
Exceptional circumstances
As I reported in September, the Harper government quietly directed CSIS in December 2010 that it could make use of information...
Absurdity, there and here
The Harper government is disappointed with Hamid Karzai’s demand that all American-held detainees be turned over to Afghan...
Absurdity, here and there
The latest squabble over Afghan detainees, national security and access to information involves hairdos. Meanwhile, Hamid Karzai...
Goodbye to the NDS?
An interesting exchange—and perhaps even a straight answer—from Question Period yesterday.