Tag Archives: Surveillance

Keeping an Eye on the Panopticon

February 21, 2012 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

AT DINNER one evening in the 1990s, while I was living down the road from Kingston Penitentiary, the English Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s ‘panopticon’ came up.

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Following the Money: Why Are the Feds Spying on Cindy Blackstock?

November 19, 2011 Wayne K. Spear 3 Comments

A PASSIVE listener of CBC radio as I am (it is on when my partner is home, and off when she isn’t), I first heard of the Government’s surveillance of native youth advocate Cindy Blackstock via the program The Current.