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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
CALGARY, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety and Mr. Doug Griffiths, Parliamentary Assistant for the Alberta Department of the Solicitor General and Public Security, will speak and a photo opportunity will follow.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
CALGARY, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) Today, the Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety, announced federal support of over $2 million for two projects aimed at preventing crime in Calgary and the surrounding area.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada on behalf of the Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety, today introduced in the House of Commons legislation to implement the Canada-U.S. Framework Agreement on Integrated Cross-Border Maritime Law Enforcement Operations, also known as "Shiprider". The Keeping...
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Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... agencies and accepted responsibility for their crimes. Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said the current law on transfers is tilted toward the right of criminals to return home. He said recent court rulings have made it difficult to block transfers except in cases where prisoners are deemed a threat to national security. “Right now, the law emphasizes the interests of the criminal,”...
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They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
But when Peter Van Loan says that a change to the law governing the eligability of Canadians held in foreign jails for transfers to Canada, has nothing to do with Omar Khadr, the bullshit detector in my brain goes to defcon 5.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety and Mr. Daniel Petit, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, today announced the introduction of legislative amendments to the International Transfer of Offenders Act, the next step in making the "protection of society" the primary focus of the Canadian corrections system. These amendments...
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Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... 20 to 30 Canadians have joined Shabaab — a development that public safety minister Peter Van Loan has said “alarmed” him. In the U.S., the disappearances have primarily clustered around Minneapolis-St. Paul, but there are credible reports of disappearances in other U.S. cities with large Somali populations as well. The Times of London reports that British security services...