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Closely Guarded is written by a man who was privy to some of the most closely guarded state secrets in Canada. From 1942 to 1973, John Starnes was engaged in such areas as communications intelligence and, during his tenure as the first civilian director-general of the RCMP Security Service, in counter-espionage and counter-subversion. His recollection of these confidential activities and the part he played in them is supported by a wealth of formerly classified official documentation recently released under the Access to Information Act.This is a highly personal narrative, brought vividly to life with excerpts from the letters that Starnes wrote home from London during the Second World War, when he moved in intelligence circles and met many prominent diplomats and policy-makers. His story recalls several of the key political moments of this century, including the creation of the United Nations, the glory days of External Affairs, the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, and the October Crisis in 1970.Starnes's memoir offers a fascinating look at Canada's security and intelligence work from the point of view of an official deeply involved in many covert government activities. It provides an insider's perspective on both the little-known world of the Canadian intelligence community and the international security and intelligence network in which Canada has participated. Written by the author of five spy novels, it will interest those who follow the history of Canada's undercover operations.
Intelligence officers --- Intelligence agents --- Intelligence service --- Starnes, John. --- Royal Canadian Mounted Police. --- Canada. --- 加拿大. --- R.C.M.P. Security Service --- RCMP Security Service --- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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A major book on Canada's most storied pre-World War I figure and early Confederation history.
Northwest, Canadian --- Police --- Soldiers --- History. --- History --- Steele, Samuel B. --- North West Mounted Police (Canada) --- 1841-1914 --- Canada --- Canada, Western. --- Canada. --- Biography / RCMP and Military History.
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The final volume of the Osgoode Society's Canadian State Trials series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats in Canada in the twentieth century.
Political crimes and offenses --- Trials (Political crimes and offenses) --- History. --- Canada. --- Canadian legal history. --- Cold War. --- FLQ. --- Gouzenko Affair. --- October Crisis. --- Oka Crisis. --- Osgoode Society. --- RCMP. --- War Measures Act. --- law and politics. --- national security measures. --- political trials. --- state trials.
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Beginning in the 1950s, alleged UFO sightings sparked tension between the Canadian government and its citizens. The public demanded investigation and disclosure while the state appeared unconcerned. In Search for the Unknown Matthew Hayes presents the first comprehensive history of UFO investigations in Canada.
Conspiracy theories. --- Government information. --- Unidentified flying objects --- Sightings and encounters. --- Canada. --- ATIP. --- North America. --- RCMP. --- UFO. --- access information. --- alien. --- archives. --- balloon. --- conspiracy theory. --- crash. --- crop circle. --- epistemology. --- evidence. --- extraterrestrial. --- government. --- hoax. --- military. --- ontology. --- paranormal. --- reliability. --- report. --- sighting. --- state. --- supernatural. --- transparency.
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Police corruption --- -Police corruption --- -343.9 --- Police --- Corruption --- Police misconduct --- Criminologie --(algemeen) --- Corrupt practices --- Royal Canadian Mounted Police --- Canada. --- Scarlet Force (Canada) --- Gendarmerie royale du Canada --- Royale gendarmerie à cheval du Canada --- RCMP --- R.C.M.P. --- GRC --- Mounties --- Canadian Mounted Police --- Royal North West Mounted Police (Canada) --- 343.9 Criminologie --(algemeen) --- 343.9 --- Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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This book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada, contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The book looks critically at the esteemed sixties' television show Wojeck, as well as the more recent series Da Vinci's Inquest, Da Vinci's City Hall, and Intelligence, and the controversial Durham County, a critically acclaimed but violent television series that ran successfully in both Canada and the United States. The essays in Detecting Canada look at texts from a variety of perspectives, including postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, and critical race and class studies. Crime fiction, enjoyed by so many around the world, speaks to all of us about justice, citizenship, and important social issues in an uncertain world.
Crime on television --- Roman policier canadien --- Criminalité à la télévision --- Crime in television --- Television --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- . --- Alias Grace. --- Anthony Bidulka. --- Australian detective fiction. --- Beryl Langer. --- Canadian Psycho. --- DaVinci's Inquest. --- Durham County. --- Eric Wright. --- Gail Bowen. --- Giles Blunt. --- Gothic RCMP. --- Howard Engel. --- Indigenous detective fiction. --- Jennifer Andrews. --- Manina Jones. --- Margaret Atwood. --- Peter Robinson. --- Thumps DreadfulWater. --- Wojeck. --- canadian detectives. --- canadian mystery writers. --- canadian tv detectives. --- detective fiction. --- mystery.
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"This book investigates the surveillance of the women's liberation movement by the RCMP's Security Service, beginning in the late 1960s and stretching into the mid-1980s during the feminist second wave. It is based upon a close reading of thousands of pages of documents declassified under Canada's Access to Information Act (ATI). Spotted Throughout with Red considers both the machinations of the security service and the rise and fall of the feminist movement, with particular attention paid to its broad transnational origins and influences and the elusive quest for unity across lines of ideology, identity, and sexuality, among other markers of difference. Spying on the women's liberation movement is an example of the broadening of state surveillance from a narrow anti-Communist focus to a variety of domestic targets identified with the left. At the same time, state surveillance of the women's liberation movement, which focused mainly on gender equality, differed from spying on other women's organizations connected to trade unionism or communism. Crucially, the files show how this male-dominated police force, staffed only by men until 1974, had particular expectations and interpretations of the women liberationists' appearance and behaviour which coloured their understanding of a movement intent on sparking a revolutionary reboot of gender relations. They also reveal the use of women informants, which significantly troubles the notion of sisterhood and has potentially serious consequences for those who took part in the movement. The authors reflect on the historiographical, methodological, and ethical challenges associated with using state surveillance files. Rising to the surface is the form and texture of everyday activism and surveillance, and the multiple ways in which those quotidian realities interconnected over time. By positioning surveillance of the women's liberation movement in Canada firmly within the context of the Cold War, the book aims to contribute to scholarship in surveillance studies, widen our understanding of state surveillance during the "long sixties," and to provide a new perspective on the history of feminist activism. More broadly, domestic surveillance of second wave feminism is a critical bridge linking a period that concentrated on communism and subversion in the late 20th century to a focus on terrorism and extremism in the 21st century."--
Royal Canadian Mounted Police --- Intelligence service --- Internal security --- Women --- Feminism --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Counter intelligence --- Counterespionage --- Counterintelligence --- Intelligence community --- Secret police (Intelligence service) --- Public administration --- Research --- Disinformation --- Secret service --- History. --- History --- Political activity --- Emancipation --- Canada. --- Scarlet Force (Canada) --- Gendarmerie royale du Canada --- Royale gendarmerie à cheval du Canada --- RCMP --- R.C.M.P. --- GRC --- Mounties --- Canadian Mounted Police --- Royal North West Mounted Police (Canada)
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If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of a new book by Steve Hewitt. Spying 101 provides new insight on the previously secret operations of one of Canada's most powerful institutions and best-known national symbols, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For more than eighty years, the RCMP and its younger counterpart, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), have been conducting covert investigations within the hallowed halls of Canadian universities in an attempt to discover 'subversive' activity among faculty, employees, and students, and, periodically, to hunt for spies and terrorists. Information has been collected on thousands of Canadians, including prominent individuals such as Pierre Berton, Peter Gzowski, Lotta Hitschmanova, and RenT LTvesque. Spying 101 offers a fresh examination of the relationship in the intelligence field between the RCMP and federal departments, such as National Defence and External Affairs, and its political masters, including Pierre Trudeau. Hewitt also explores the complicity of the RCMP in the handling of the anti-APEC protests at the University of British Columbia in 1997 and offers an overview of the current work by Canada's intelligence services at the nation's universities. Relying on thousands of pages of previously secret RCMP and government documents, and on recollections of participants including former members of the RCMP Security Service, Spying 101 offers a vivid portrait of a crucial, yet unstudied, chapter in the history of the world's most famous police force.
Internal security --- Intelligence service --- College students --- College teachers --- Counter intelligence --- Counterespionage --- Counterintelligence --- Intelligence community --- Secret police (Intelligence service) --- Public administration --- Research --- Disinformation --- Secret service --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Academicians --- Academics (Persons) --- College instructors --- College lecturers --- College professors --- College science teachers --- Lectors (Higher education) --- Lecturers, College --- Lecturers, University --- Professors --- Universities and colleges --- University academics --- University instructors --- University lecturers --- University professors --- University teachers --- Teachers --- College life --- University students --- Students --- History --- Political activity --- Faculty --- Education --- Royal Canadian Mounted Police --- Canada. --- Scarlet Force (Canada) --- Gendarmerie royale du Canada --- Royale gendarmerie à cheval du Canada --- RCMP --- R.C.M.P. --- GRC --- Mounties --- Canadian Mounted Police --- Royal North West Mounted Police (Canada) --- History. --- Gosset, William Sealy --- Kanada --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canad --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanak --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canad --- Yn Chanadey --- Canada --- Puissance du Canada --- Kanadier --- Provinz Kanada --- 01.07.1867 --- -Internal security --- Dominio del Canadá --- Kaineḍā --- Kanakā --- Republica de Canadá
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"In Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds, Sandra Lambertus asks this question of the media coverage of the largest RCMP operation in Canadian history - the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff." "Drawing from extensive newspaper, television, and radio news coverage, legal and law enforcement documents, and ethnographic interviews with journalists, RCMP officers, and Native leaders, Lambertus examines the construction and dissemination of vilifying stereotyped portrayals of Native people. Employing a variety of methodologies including discourse analysis, the investigation shows how the values and perspectives of local communities, media, and law enforcement became overshadowed by those of 'outsiders' during the course of the event. The study culminates with an assessment of the structural elements that contributed to the damaging media portrayals. Provocative and convincingly argued, Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds opens new avenues for the study of the representation of minorities in the news and for the study of news media in general."--Jacket.
Gustafsen Lake Standoff, B.C., 1995 --- Shuswap Indians --- Secwepemc Indians --- Shushwap Indians --- Indians of North America --- Salishan Indians --- Gustafsen Lake Confrontation, B.C., 1995 --- Gustafsen Lake Crisis, B.C., 1995 --- Gustafsen Lake Occupation, B.C., 1995 --- Gustafsen Lake Siege, B.C., 1995 --- Gustafsen Lake Stand-off, B.C., 1995 --- Ts'peten Standoff, B.C., 1995 --- Press coverage. --- Civil rights. --- Government relations. --- Government relations --- Royal Canadian Mounted Police. --- British Columbia --- Ethnic relations. --- Politics and government. --- Canada. --- Scarlet Force (Canada) --- Gendarmerie royale du Canada --- Royale gendarmerie à cheval du Canada --- RCMP --- R.C.M.P. --- GRC --- Mounties --- Canadian Mounted Police --- Royal North West Mounted Police (Canada) --- Colombie-Britannique --- British Columbia (Colony) --- Colony of British Columbia --- United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia --- Brits-Kolombië --- Britaniya Kolumbiyası --- Брытанская Калумбія --- Brytanskai︠a︡ Kalumbii︠a︡ --- Britanska Kolumbija --- Британска Колумбия --- Britanska Kolumbii︠a︡ --- Colúmbia Britànica --- Britská Kolumbie --- Britisk Columbia --- Britisch-Kolumbien --- Briti Columbia --- Βρετανικη Κολομβια --- Vretanikē Kolomvia --- Province of British Columbia --- B.C. (British Columbia) --- BC --- C.-B. (Province) --- Vancouver Island (Colony)
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