Fred Joseph Ernst

ATIP/FOI specialist. Unrelenting public interest research. State crime. Statecraft. Strategic Communication. COIN.

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

Canadaland 2021/09/20. "Essentially you have a police state" - former B.C. Supreme Court judge Wally Oppal on the RCMP. https://t.co/uAvjHrhIyn

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

2023.10.16. In testimony to parliamentary committee re. Canadian government's compliance with the Access to Information Act, Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard explains that "Government institutions now routinely violate this law on a daily basis." https://t.co/pROOH2X8bs

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Feds have filed so many legal challenges to block disclosure of public records that @OIC_CI_Canada has increased spending on lawyers. “Gov’t institutions now routinely violate this law on a daily basis.” https://t.co/zhV76dkygf #cdnpoli #cdnfoi #ATI

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2022/12/20 St. Louis Public Radio. NGA's nearly $2 billion new western headquarters reflects data's growing role in warfare https://t.co/yLBjiA43GF

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Blacklock’s evicted by Parliamentary Press Gallery executives accompanied by armed police.

UNLOCKED: https://t.co/P1lORUWQkR

@CdnHeritage @pablorodriguez #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #subsidies

[CP24 @CP24]

Canadian Civil Liberties Association takes government to court over Emergencies Act
https://t.co/ydyrfpqkyA

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

"Incredibly dispiriting to hear President Biden's (Acting) SG argue to SCOTUS that a prisoner who was tortured by US agents shouldn't be permitted to testify in court about his torture", says @JameelJaffer https://t.co/zDo3aAUFc2

[Jameel Jaffer @JameelJaffer]

This really important case—to be argued before SCOTUS this morning—is really about accountability, not secrecy. The stuff the government says is secret is well known. The Q is whether the courts will acknowledge what everyone already knows to be true. https://t.co/q9D2eeKXnx

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

National Post 2021/09/27. Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians, Forces report says. https://t.co/zh2NcQ9DH3

[Fionnuala Ní Aoláin @NiAolainF]

How do we undo the human rights catastrophe that 9/11 spawned? We need to fundamentally undo counter-terrorism as we know it.

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

2021/06/22 The Intercept. U.S. Military Training Document says Socialists Represent "Terrorist" Ideology. https://t.co/VfoBnkWypL

[Canadian Civil Liberties Association @cancivlib]

#BREAKING It’s a Black Friday of rights slashing by Queen’s Park today, risking a rash of racial profiling and overbroad police powers, presuming everyone outside guilty until proven otherwise. The mobility rights restrictions fail to achieve constitutional proportionality.

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

2021/01/26 The Guardian. William Shawcross’s selection for Prevent role strongly criticised https://t.co/S7ha5msTVn

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

2020/12/27 Canadaland. COMMONS: The Police – Dirty Tricks https://t.co/36c06yyEY3

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

2020/12/17 Reuters. U.S. whistleblower was pressed to exaggerate leftist role in urban protests, lawyer says https://t.co/O57XlDYGr7

[Fionnuala Ní Aoláin @NiAolainF]

Nearly 20 years after 9/11, one might ask, where do we stand now in terms of counterterrorism ... https://t.co/I5K1RWlTjj

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

Bed of Lies: "... a web of state-spun lies." Cara McGoogan investigates one of Britain's biggest secrets with the women who unearthed the truth. Every Tuesday. https://t.co/qRIZ46zYl7

[Peter Geoghegan @PeterKGeoghegan]

Remember government’s secretive Freedom of Information ‘Clearing House’ we exposed earlier this week?

No 10 says it's all lawful. But data protection expert Jon Baines took a deep look and found Whitehall might be breaking the law.

Latest @openDemocracy https://t.co/4ZkvLu9StL

[Peter Geoghegan @PeterKGeoghegan]

Great to see @openDemocracy 's revelations about the secretive Cabinet Office unit screening journalists and blocking freedom of information featuring heavily in today's Times. https://t.co/46vpwpDM1l

[Dean Beeby @DeanBeeby]

RCMP backlog of requests is "shocking"; 92% of requests are beyond legal deadlines; Mounties decline to co-operate with info commissioner's probes; info systems are "archaic," regularly crash, no maintenance contract. And Cda's ATIA system on verge of "collapse." #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

[Fred Joseph Ernst @FredjosephErnst]

2020/06/19 Macleans. The Nova Scotia Shooter Case has Hallmarks of an Undercover Operation. https://t.co/T0lyAe0PF8