serial_crusher: So, where do they spy right now? Just anywhere north of the Panama Canal?

Mostly they keep an eye on various Tim Horton's, sometimes hockey games.

serial_crusher: Resolute: Flab:

Can't find article on the update, but it turned out to be nothing but a commemorative quarter issued for Rememberance days.


Silly Americans (new window)

Wow, thats comedy gold:
The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something manmade that looked like nanotechnology," said once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails.
"looked like" nanotechnology? Like, the dude had a microscope on him?


"It did not appear to be electronic [analog] in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high-power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear but different material, with a wire-like mesh suspended on top."

Laugh all you want, but Canada did develop MAPLE reactors
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Rather than being licensed to kill, Canadian spies will be licensed to be slightly impolite.

mrshowrules: According to a 60 Minutes special a few years ago. US/UK/Canada all spy on each other and share intelligence to circumvent domestic spying laws anyways.

Most of the spying against Canadian cellphones is done as qualification training anyway. It's pretty much just throwaway data.

Canadians are always dreaming up a lotta ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Neil Young!

Benni K Rok: mrshowrules: According to a 60 Minutes special a few years ago. US/UK/Canada all spy on each other and share intelligence to circumvent domestic spying laws anyways.

Most of the spying against Canadian cellphones is done as qualification training anyway. It's pretty much just throwaway data.

/this denial sponsored by richard murdoch

slc11082: Just like with everything associated with defense, America will carry their asses like always.

1/10. You are going to pull something straining that hard.

This is just what Big Syrup wants you to think

Well this explains why the past few years they have been recruiting like crazy on university campuses. I'm really curious about why they've been specifically focusing recruitment on humanities and arts majors on certain campuses. I would've thought that forensic accounting and sciences would be more their thing.

Bennie Crabtree: Well this explains why the past few years they have been recruiting like crazy on university campuses. I'm really curious about why they've been specifically focusing recruitment on humanities and arts majors on certain campuses. I would've thought that forensic accounting and sciences would be more their thing.

My guess would be that if you're planning to send someone into a foreign country, they'd be more likely to be effective in building their targets' trust if they know (or have demonstrated the capacity to learn) about various aspects of that country's culture and how they fit together. Even if their cover ID is some type of businessperson, a background in history, poli sci, languages, sociology, anthropology etc would be useful, and imo they'd be more adaptable than someone whose academic pursuits revolved around numbers rather than people.

Bennie Crabtree: Well this explains why the past few years they have been recruiting like crazy on university campuses. I'm really curious about why they've been specifically focusing recruitment on humanities and arts majors on certain campuses. I would've thought that forensic accounting and sciences would be more their thing.

Understanding cultures is a vital part of Intelligence Services. For that you need analysts versed in the Arts and Humanities. It is not surprising that they are recruiting from that faculty. You are going to need people with degrees in literature, religion, political science. Did you think that CSIS only hired science graduates? Why would they need only them? Lab-jockeys are a dime a dozen. I'l bet you that if you look at the big intelligence agencies you are going to find far more Arts and Humanities graduates than Science. Scientists are not really trained for looking at the "big picture" or "thinking outside the box"; they are just good at whatever their particular specialty is.

The only way that you'll know that they were there will be that your desk is straightened up, your kitchen sink no longer leaks, and the faint hint of maple syrup and bacon in the air.

"Darryl Freehorn, Canadian Secret Service. We have one too."

Cain is lucky that the Jackson trial is overshadowing him now. FOX is going full derp on it.

And wrong thread. I'm dum.

Years ago I went to CSIS in an office tower downtown to apply for a job. When I got there, the floor was vacant. It turns out they moved, but I thought it was some kind of "test".
/was once very, very paranoid.