Wednesday, October 21, 2026
At All Times
On 19 October 1998 Canada declared that the prohibition on blinding weapons is to be observed at all times. Four Canadian instruments govern the deliberate defeat of human sight. They protect an enemy combatant, an export customer, and a pilot. Not a person holding a camera.
Ten things
- Foley, “Army study found shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fear” , 6 October 2026, on the $16.7M ICE contract and the Fort Leavenworth study obtained by American Oversight.
- On 19 October 1998 Canada declared that the prohibition on blinding weapons is to be observed at all times. Four Canadian instruments govern the deliberate defeat of human sight. They protect an enemy combatant, an export customer, and a pilot. Not a person holding a camera.
- The Minister shall not issue a permit … if, after considering available mitigating measures, he or she determines that there is a substantial risk that the export or the brokering of the goods … would result in any of the negative consequences referred to in subsection 7.3(1).
- Subject to section 601.21, no person shall project or cause to be projected a directed bright light source into navigable airspace in such a manner as to create a hazard to aviation safety or cause damage to an aircraft or injury to persons on board the aircraft.
- In June 2010, days before the G20 summit, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association went to the Ontario Superior Court to stop Toronto police and the OPP using Long Range Acoustic Devices on the crowds.
- The piercing alert function was restricted to the OPP's own protocol — a standoff of 75 metres rather than 22, in bursts of two to four seconds , no more often than every 30 seconds .
- The Network, Finding 11 — Unfilmed reads across nine Canadian police technology ledgers: 100 capability states for what police can record about a member of the public, and not one for what a member of the public may record about the police.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement had signed a $16.7 million contract for 6,000 pairs of electric-shock gloves made by Compliant Technologies LLC of Kentucky, and that the agency had the U.S.
- A battery-powered glove that discharges an electrical charge into a person is, on the face of that text, a prohibited weapon in Canada — and has been since the regulation came into force on 1 December 1998.
- Part 3 of that schedule is, read plainly, Canada's list of ways to incapacitate a person: gas, Mace, any liquid, spray or powder that injures or immobilizes, nunchaku, shuriken, weighted chains, a ring with a blade in it, brass knuckles, and the electrical discharge device.
Five questions
Which term completes this sourced statement? “Foley, “Army study found shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fear” , 6 October 2026, on the $16.7M ICE contract and the Fort _____ study obtained by American Oversight.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “The _____ shall not issue a permit … if, after considering available mitigating measures, he or she determines that there is a substantial risk that the export or the brokering of the goods … would result in any of the negative consequences referred to in subsection 7.3(1).”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “In June 2010, days before the G20 summit, the Canadian Civil Liberties _____ went to the Ontario Superior Court to stop Toronto police and the OPP using Long Range Acoustic Devices on the crowds.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “The Network, Finding 11 — _____ reads across nine Canadian police technology ledgers: 100 capability states for what police can record about a member of the public, and not one for what a member of the public may record about the police.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “A battery-powered glove that discharges an electrical charge into a person is, on the face of that text, a prohibited weapon in Canada — and has been since the regulation came into force on 1 _____ 1998.”