Snip: Although about 2,300 airport workers are screened on a random basis every day, according to the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, that represents about two per cent of the 110,000 airport workers in Canada, says the report.
Canada: a great year for terrorists and foreign criminals
Snip: The new year isn't even three months old yet but 2007 is turning into a boon for terrorists and violent foreign criminals who, at least temporarily, call Canada home. The Chinese have their Year of the Pig; we have the Year of the Terrorist. Several events occurred recently that do no make things look promising for Canadians who are concerned with law and order and the security of their country.
Canadian port security said too lax
Snip: Canada is not doing enough to screen cargo containers for potential terror threats or to weed out organized crime activity at its sea and freshwater ports, according to a report on Thursday.
Cruise ship passengers and their luggage should also undergo the same screening used at airports, and vehicles should be searched before they are allowed on large ferries, the Canadian Senate's national security and defense committee said.
Calgary flight scare: 30 bags flew without owners
Snip: Internal documents obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Transport Canada is investigating the incident — a direct violation of major international security rules Canada adopted after the 1985 Air India bombings, which killed 329 people.
The only reason dozens of checked bags were allowed to be loaded onto the plane without their owners appears to be bedlam at Calgary Airport during a work-to-rule campaign by airport security screeners.
US truckers welcome new security act
Snip: OIIDA also noted that "once a Mexico-domiciled truck passes through the U.S. border with a permissible NAFTA shipment, there is currently no plan in place to monitor what that driver does once inside the United States."
"The establishment of this legislation is the only way the DOT's program should be allowed to go forward," Spencer said. "Otherwise, we should all think about staying off the highways."
"...Bags flew without owners"
Amazing in this day and age.
"KELLY: NYPD SPIES DESERVE PRAISE"
By PHILIP MESSING
March 31, 2007
Ditto.
Good grief MamaD. I hate to fly but those articles you posted are none too comforting. Won't we ever learn???