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Canada to launch no-fly list in June
May 12, 2007 04:30 AMTonda MacCharles
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA–A Canadian "no-fly" list of people to be barred from boarding domestic and international airline flights is set to take effect June 18, just as the busy summer flying season gets underway.
The move, nearly six years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, amounts to a flight blacklist of people "reasonably suspected" by federal officials as immediate threats to the safety of commercial aircraft, passengers or crew.
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'Get a passport,' envoy say
May 14, 2007 01:53 PMCanadian Press
CHAMPLAIN, N.Y.
The U.S. ambassador to Canada is telling Canadians not to take any chances at land border crossings and to get their passports ready.
“What I tell Canadians is the same thing I tell Americans, is, with all due respect, get a passport — that is the sure thing,” David Wilkins said today.
The U.S. ambassador said there are a lot of “mixed messages,” but he pointed out that a passport law has been passed and is in place.
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Don't get caught without a visa
Jim Middlemiss, Financial Post
Published: Wednesday, February 14, 2007Cal Bricker knows the ins and outs of crossing the Canada-U.S. border on business. Mr. Bricker, the vice-president of public affairs for the Canadian operations of Waste Management reports to the company's Houston office and heads to the United States once a month to meet with executives. Before taking this job, Mr. Bricker lived and worked in the United States --back during 9/11.
Then, he says, you would be met with military troops packing M-16s at most airports, even if it simply involved domestic travel. There were often secondary security checks and Mr. Bricker says he was often "hauled out of line" once he produced his Canadian passport.
"You don't have that anymore," Mr. Bricker says. Aside from usual weather delays and beefed up screening requirements, crossing the border isn't so bad compared to immediately after 9/11.
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OSC goes on record against 'passport' model
Will not join provincial coalition, prefers a single national securities watchdog
JANET MCFARLANDThe Ontario Securities Commission will not join a coalition of provincial securities commissions adopting a new "passport" model of regulation for Canada, arguing it will add little to the existing system of securities regulation.
OSC chairman David Wilson said yesterday the commission wants to see a common securities regulator set up in Canada, and supports the Ontario government's position that it cannot endorse the proposed passport model without a clear indication that it will be a stepping stone toward national regulation.
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Passport backlog raises security concerns
Updated Fri. Mar. 16 2007 12:54 PM ETKathy Tomlinson, CTV News
Ontario resident Diana Mayer looked in her rural mailbox by the side of the road, saw the envelope from Passport Canada, and thought there must be a mistake.
"I thought, no -- this couldn't possibly be my passport," Mayer told CTV. "This shouldn't be happening."
Mayer knew the government is only supposed to send passports out by courier or registered mail. She was right -- the package didn't include her new passport. But what she did find inside bothered her just as much.
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