Border (In)security: Deportation is Not Entertainment

A Panel Discussion Presented by the Criminology Voices Series and the Critical Criminology Working Group Featuring Micheal Vonn, BC Civil Liberties Association, on the implications of turning CBSA raids into entertainment […]

What’s bogus?

The government is keeping us busy this week. Two days after tabling the “lawful access” bill, government tabled Bill C-31, the so-called “Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act”, a draconian overhaul […]

Meaning what you say, saying what you mean

Last Thursday, the Conservative government reintroduced its so-called anti-smuggling bill. The bill seeks to penalize asylum seekers who attempt to enter Canada through purportedly “irregular” means by creating two classes […]

CBSA laptop search documents

In late February, shortly after the story we posted about the Canada Border Services Agency delaying our request for documents on their policies on searching laptops and other personal electronics, […]