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How to recognize author scams
Frustrations with Access to Information in Canada
A CBC news team has published a story about the RCMP’s spying on Indigenous leaders in the 1970s and 80s. A sub plot to the story is the frustration that the CBC journalists encountered in their year’s-long effort to obtain information from the RCMP Security Service files. This is a frustration with which I am only too familiar. Canada's Access to Information system is broken and must be fixed.
A Communist for the RCMP
Frank Hadesbeck was a long-time civilian informant for the RCMP over a span of 35 years. In this and future blog posts, Dennis Gruending, author of A Communist for the RCMP, explains how he researched and wrote this unique book.
