http://travelwatchlist.ca en The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) in cooperation with civil liberties groups and partners from the labour movement released on February 10, 2010, its long-awaited report on border controls and infringements to travellers’ rights. http://travelwatchlist.ca/News/Travellers_urged_to_ In the face of growing surveillance of travellers, many individuals are being caught in the web of government watch lists.Civil liberties groups and major labour unions are pooling their efforts to document how these measures are violating our privacy and mobility rights. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:19:00 -0400 31998 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/Alistair_Butt Alistair Butt is a name that appears on a watch list used by Canadian airlines. For at least two Canadian boys who share that name, travelling by air has become a nightmare. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:11:00 -0400 31928 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/Dr_Munir_ElKassem Dr. Munir El-Kassem, director of Clinics at the School of Dentistry at the University of Western in London, was detained and fingerprinted during a stopover at the Detroit airport on May 5, 2007 on his way to give a lecture at an interfaith conference in Milwaukee. The respected Muslim community leader, university chaplain and well-known advocate for interfaith dialogue, was questioned for four hours and asked whether he knew Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and whether he loved “God or Allah”. The whole ordeal left him shaken, angry and feeling dehumanized. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:16:00 -0400 31929 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/Andrew_Feldmar Andrew Feldmar a 67-year old well-known Vancouver psychotherapist, was on his way to pick up a friend at the Seattle airport in August 2006 when he was stopped at the Peace Arch border station in Blaine, Washington. A U.S. Customs and Border protection guard typed his name into an Internet search engine, which turned up a 2001 article written by Mr. Feldmar about experimenting with LSD in the 1960s. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:32:00 -0400 31932 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/Robert_and_James_Ken The names of Senator Colin Kenny's sons - Robert, a Toronto Crown attorney and James, a student - are on a no-fly list. When their father asked the Transport minister to help, he was referred to a U.S. government website. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:02:00 -0400 31983 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/a48502b856a4db Well-known U.S. peace activists Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin were denied entry to Canada on October 22, 2007 because their names were on an FBI crime database meant to track potential terrorists, fugitives and violent criminals. They were told they couldn’t enter Canada until they were “rehabilitated,” but seven months later after a New Democratic Party MP vouched for them they were allowed to speak at a peace conference in Vancouver. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:42:00 -0400 31934 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/Ali_SeifEnnasr Ali SeifEnnasr travelled from Ottawa to Chicago on October 22, 2006 to attend a two-week training session before taking up a new job in Toronto with a U.S.-based employer, a business consulting firm. But the Tunisia-born Canadian never got to attend the training and in the process, lost his job. He was detained at the O’Hare airport by several FBI and Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security officials, put in a cell overnight and sent back to Canada the next day allegedly because he was a threat to national security. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:49:00 -0400 31935 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/News/US-watch-list-hits-o According to a tally released on July 14, 2008 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) there are now one million names on the "terrorist" watch list. The list also contains the names Canadians and is used to compile the U.S. no-fly list, routinely used by airlines in Canada to screen travellers flying within the country and internationally. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:52:00 -0400 32307 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/News/Confidential-informa Laptops, digital music players, personal data assistants and BlackBerry devices are considered “goods” by customs officers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, and can be searched and seized without a warrant. Although these electronic devices may contain confidential information or trade secrets, rules and regulations in the U.S. and Canada allow their search and seizure even in the absence of any suspicion against the traveller. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:39:00 -0400 32880 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/News/Canadas-No-fly-list A graduate student from Montreal has become the first person denied permission to fly under Canada’s controversial “No-fly list” which came into force 15 months ago, prompting a constitutional challenge to Transport Canada's Passenger Protect Program. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:41:00 -0400 32882 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/Glenda-Hutton A 66-year-old former school secretary from Vancouver Island has had to shelve her retirement dream of travelling the world because her name is on a secret no-fly list. She has no criminal record, has never had any problems with the law but she can't get her name off the U.S. watch list. Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:02:00 -0500 33856 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/News/No-evidence-demonstr Despite repeated requests by Canada's Privacy Commissioner, Transport Canada has provided "no evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of no-fly lists." In her annual report tabled in Parliament Jennifer Stoddart criticizes the Passenger Protect Program which threatens Canadians' right to privacy and their fundamental rights. Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:27:00 -0500 34038 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/News/Canada-must-fight-US A coalition of 38 national organization urges Transport Minister John Baird to strongly oppose the new U.S. rules which will have a serious impact on the rights of Canadian travellers and visitors to Canada. Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:06:00 -0500 34231 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/Mike-Miles Wisconsin log cabin restorer Mike Miles is considered undesirable in Canada because of his long string of misdemeanor convictions for non-violent peace activism in the U.S., but last May he was allowed to enter Manitoba simply by paying $200. Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:55:00 -0500 34620 at cupe.ca http://travelwatchlist.ca/stories/Jos-Santos Langley resident José Santos shares the same name as a man wanted for murder in 25 U.S. states. Every time he travels to the U.S. he's detained and singled out for secondary interrogation. Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:29:00 -0500 34619 at cupe.ca