Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

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Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
Tello,Carlos
Article
2014
Recent RCMP report warns that Canada's energy sector is more at risk from domestic environmental extremists than from religiously inspired terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and ISIS.
Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Palmer, Bryan D.
Book
2008
A history of social movements of the 1960s, including Canada’s student and anti-war movements, the rise of women’s liberation, labour agitation, and Quebec’s independence movement.
The Committee for the Defense of Democratic Rights
Article
1978
A Law Union pamphlet regarding the legality of national security measures.
Crimes of the Secret Police: Bombers, Burglars, Bullies, Barn-Burners And Dynamite Thieves
Dion, Robert
Book
1982
An account of crimes committed by the RCMP security service in the name of national security.
The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?
Weinberg, Paul
Article
2013
The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close ...
The police vs. the law
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1981
One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police are supposed to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
The Praxis Affair
Weinberg, Paul
Article
2015
A cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups be...
The Praxis Affair: There's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada
Weinberg, Paul
Article
2015
This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting g...
Raising the Workers' Flag: The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Endicott, Stephen L.
Book
2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks' campaign
Article
1999
The Mounties bombed an oil installation as part of a dirty tricks campaign in their investigation into sabotage in the Alberta's oil patch.
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: The War Series, Part II, 1942-1945
Kealey, Gregory S.; Whitaker, Reg
Book
This volume completes the series of Security Bulletins for World War II, discussing security concerns and underlying ideology of the Secret Service.
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: The Depression Years, Part I, 1933-1934
Kealey, Gregory S.; Whitaker, Reg
Book
This volume begins a series on the Depression years, discussing security concerns and the underlying ideology of the Secret Service.
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: The Early Years, 1919-1929
Kealey, Gregory S.; Whitaker, Reg
Book
This volume contains materials received through the Canadian Access to Information legislation, providing an overview of the genesis of the RCMP.
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: The War Series, 1939-1941
Kealey, Gregory S.; Whitaker, Reg
Book
It contains reports the RCMP issued to government of "subversive" activity, now held by CSIS. It covers a time when the CPC was illegal.
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: The Depression Years, Part II, 1935
Kealey, Gregory S.; Whitaker, Reg; Manley, John
Book
This fully-indexed volume documents the RCMP's surveillance of the CPC, unions, and unemployed organizations, with coverage of the 1935 election.
RCMP - The Real Subversives
Fidler, Richard
Book
1978
A critique of the motives and actions of the RCMP.
The RCMP versus the 'anti-petroleum movement'
Article
2015
Canada's political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.
The RCMP vs. the People: Inside Canada's Security Service
Mann, Edward, & Lee, John Allan
Book
1979
An examination of the RCMP's Security Service and its abuses of power.
Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Whitaker, Reg; Kealey, Gregory S.; Parnaby, Andrew
Book
2012
A history of political policing in Canada.
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
Nikiforuk, Andrew
Book
2015
A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of B...
Speech by Aubrey Golden to the N.F.U. Convention
Golden, Aubrey
Article
1977
A speech given to the National Farmer's Union regarding the differences between a police force and a security service and the importance of keeping the two seperate.
Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities 1917 - 1997
Hewitt, Steve
Book
2002
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 'subv...
Submission to the MacDonald Commissionon the R.C.M.P
Article
The authors of this submission are concerned with the presence of the RCMP Security Services at events such as trade union meetings.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - June 1977: Volume V Number 6
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the mos...
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - October 1977: Volume V Number 8
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the mos...
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - November 1977: Volume V Number 9
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the mos...
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press: Volume VI Number 7
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the mos...
The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
Lipton, Charles
Book
1967
An account of trade union evolution as a whole for the period 1827-1959, as well as an ouline of continuing sphere's of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better c...
An Unauthorized History of the RCMP
Brown, Caroline and Lorne
Book
1973
A critical history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Uncivil Obedience: The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
Borovoy, A. Alan
Book
1991
How to push for social change without breaking the law.
Underground Times
Verzuh, Ron
Book
1989
The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
Whose National Security?: Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies
Kinsman, Gary; Buse, Dieter K.; Stedman, Mercedes
Article
2000
Examines RCMP monitoring of trade unionists, Left-wing political groups, students, gays and lesbians, feminists, consumers' associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereignist...

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Before Parliament Hill attack, RCMP got 3 warnings, reduced patrols
Documents show Mounties reduced patrols prior to shootings, despite 3 separate warnings
Beeby, Dean
2015
Mounties received at least three warnings of potential terrorist attacks on uniformed officers before last year's shootings on Parliament Hill, yet the RCMP wound down extra patrols around the parliam...
Spy Wars
Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost
Granatstein, J.L.; Stafford, David
1990
A survey history of Canad'as "secret" history.

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Socialist Rights Defense Fund
Organization profile published 1978
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1978