a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)6h ago

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2241953/dene-nation-rcmp-security-service-files

i wonder if an incompetently run clown shoes regional clandestine disruption program would be good fodder for a serial drama; like could you make some kind of dipshit informant going into the most infamous dive bar in the place and announcing to everybody what he's up to actually believable tv? :P

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

Dene leaders say Mounties broke into and bugged office in Cold War-era disruption program

Radio-Canada.ca
Show threada kilo of saucepans (rakslice)6h ago
what's most interesting is the timeline; it seems like the replacement of mountie shenanigans with csis didn't change much (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_of_Inquiry_into_Certain_Activities_of_the_RCMP )
Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP - Wikipedia

Show threada kilo of saucepans (rakslice)
e.g. 90s https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/csis-indigenous-investigations-1990s-9.6979565
How investigating Indigenous activists became a CSIS priority for at least a decade | CBC News

Canada's spies subjected Indigenous activists to a series of “Native extremism” investigations for at least a decade beginning in 1988, in what internal documents show was a countrywide surveillance program that became more intrusive following the resistance at Kanehsatà:ke, or the Oka Crisis.

CBC
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Show threada kilo of saucepans (rakslice)6h ago
let's say one wonders if they'll be writing one of these in 40 years about the events of 2022
Show threada kilo of saucepans (rakslice)6h ago
like that episode the sirc was writing about, like evidently kearly was some kind of nut but what they took issue with (but evidently gave a pass to) was less than a dirty tricks campaign... the question is what are the ones they didn't write about
Show threada kilo of saucepans (rakslice)5h ago
let's say an apology is all well and good but maybe you should make an effort to establish the full details of what you're apologizing for, to the extent that living memory and whatever copies of officially destroyed files might be squirrelled away in peoples' attics will allow