Spying on Professors and Students

[Sasha]

Just a brief note on Canada's slowly evolving police state.

Montreal author David Bernans made international headlines in 2006 when he was prevented from holding a reading of his novel North of 9/11 on the campus of Concordia University. While university administrators had cited security concerns as cause for the rejection, they were quick to reassign blame to a clerical error once journalists came calling. Documents recently obtained through access to information legislation show that the writer was in fact under observation by security personnel.
Link:
http://artthreat.net/2009/11/concordia-university-spied-novelist/

University of Ottawa - Rancourt alleges that as early as Sept 2007, the university hired then-student Maureen Robinson to investigate him. He claims she created Facebook and email accounts under the pseudonym Nathalie Page in order to “infiltrate” student activist groups, and report her findings to dean of science André Lalonde.
Links:
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/02/27/cover-ups-101-at-university-of-ottawa/
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/02/10/rancourt-saga-continues/


A Canadian human rights group is accusing the University of Ottawa of “spying” and attempting to stifle free speech after top university administrators considered preventing a well-known Burmese activist from speaking on campus.
Link:
http://www.dvb.no/news/canadian-uni-%E2%80%98spying%E2%80%99-on-burmese-students/8674

Then they throw this in to tie Canada to the US - 'Reds under the bed! Muslims all around!' and all that. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Link:
http://www.canada.com/news/world/Ottawa+probes+ties/3220696/story.html