​​Beyond inevitability: the alternative of nonviolence to the Troubles

“What is clear is that the history of Northern Ireland offers both cautionary lessons and sources of hope.”

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CBC News has obtained a newly declassified copy of the RCMP Security Service's nearly 1,700-page intelligence dossier on the Dene Nation which confirms the Mounties had five paid informers "targeted specifically" against the organization as late as September 1978, in an extensive intelligence probe already five years old by then.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/dene-nation-rcmp-security-service-files-9.7139036?cmp=rss

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Why Mounties paid 5 informers to spy on Dene leaders: Inside a secret surveillance operation | CBC News

Dene leaders believe the RCMP Security Service in the 1970s broke into their office in Yellowknife, bugged it, stole and leaked material while aiming to discredit them via Operation Checkmate, a national disruption program.

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Duheme's statement comes after calls from Indigenous leaders and Anandasangaree for the Mounties to take accountability and make amends following a years-long CBC Indigenous investigation revealed the RCMP Security Service ran covert surveillance, had informants and engaged in countersubversion against the First Nations, Inuit and Métis rights movements.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-response-indigenous-spying-operation-9.7141533?cmp=rss

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RCMP commissioner regrets Indigenous spying program that spanned over a decade | CBC News

The RCMP commissioner says he expresses sincere regret for an extensive spying program that targeted hundreds of Indigenous people following a CBC Indigenous investigation.

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The organizations that police monitored included the Métis Society of Saskatchewan and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians — precursors to today's Métis Nation—Saskatchewan and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/rcmp-native-extremism-files-metis-nation-sask-9.7138693?cmp=rss

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Indigenous activists in Sask. among those targeted by RCMP spying in 1970s | CBC News

Reports on Indigenous organizations in Saskatchewan are among previously classified RCMP Security Service files released to CBC under the Access to Information Act. Bruce Flamont says he is not surprised. He saw officers surveilling him in the 1970s.

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Former Assembly of First Nations national chiefs Phil Fontaine and Ovide Mercredi, who are from First Nations within Manitoba, appear in the RCMP Security Service intelligence files. So does Eric Robinson, who went on to become a Manitoba cabinet minister and deputy premier.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rcmp-intelligence-files-indigenous-leaders-activists-9.7140524?cmp=rss

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Historic RCMP spy program targeted early Indigenous rights movement in Manitoba | CBC News

Two future national First Nations leaders, a deputy premier and a city councillor are among the prominent Manitobans who appear in declassified intelligence files from years of RCMP spying on the Indigenous rights movement in the Cold War era.

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Newly released RCMP Security Service files reveal that it amassed more than 900 pages of intelligence on the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) over more than a decade.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/bc-first-nations-rcmp-spying-70s-9.7136440?cmp=rss

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Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs targeted by RCMP spies in 1970s 'Native extremism' program | CBC News

Newly released RCMP Security Service files reveal that it amassed more than 900 pages of intelligence on the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs over more than a decade. First Nations leaders say they were undeterred by RCMP surveillance and instead remained focused on fighting for their rights.

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