Reading Time: 4 minutes The answer to addiction will not be found in the industries of incarceration and prescription
Tag: Police
Beyond carding: how police surveillance has dangerously evolved
Reading Time: 7 minutes The end of carding won’t cease the gathering of information. Instead, it will be entered into police data bases without the public’s knowledge
Forget about speeders, let’s crack down on driving while phoning
Reading Time: 4 minutes You just don’t have the necessary eye-hand-ear co-ordination to drive and carry on a conversation at the same time, not even if you’re using Bluetooth
B.C. money-laundering crackdown carries hidden costs
Reading Time: 4 minutes The province needs to get its house in order. That means, among other things, good old-fashioned police work
Municipalities must protect against cyber attacks
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian towns and cities hold valuable data yet are poorly prepared to detect and fend off attacks
Are we using Google Translate responsibly?
Reading Time: 3 minutes As with many new technologies, there are limits as to when this software can and should be used
Inside ‘a tap on the back’ that ruined a 40-year policing career
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C.’s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner is a watchdog that barks public interest but whose bite is about self-interest
We need breathalyzer testing on demand
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bill C-46 would contribute to public safety, help address the serious court backlog problem and save taxpayers a lot of money
Adrift and perilously close to abandoning ship
Reading Time: 4 minutes After more than a little high-seas misadventure, the Frankie finally proves seaworthy – and sanitary
Your home is your castle? Maybe not in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes People have a right to defend themselves, their family and their property. The Crown may not understand that but two juries have shown they did