University of Ottawa Professor Wesley Wark, Toronto Star National Security Reporter Michelle Shephard and Citizen Lab’s Christopher Parsons discuss government surveillance in Canada at CJFE’s 2014 Annual General Meeting.

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• • Campaigning to free unjustly detained journalists, such as Al Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy and his colleagues in Egypt.
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• • Our Journalists in Distress Fund, which provides humanitarian assistance to journalists whose lives and well being are threatened because of their profession.

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