Thought for the Day

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RCMP spies infiltrated Canada's women's movement in the early 1970s, monitoring meetings and rallies to keep an eye on feminists, including the popular Maritime singer-songwriter Rita MacNeil, new research into declassified documents shows.

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Historians Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna found the information as they sifted through hundreds of pages of declassified files detailing the RCMP Security Service's interest in women's groups that became active in the late 1960s.

It has long been known that the now-defunct Security Service spied on a vast array of groups — from trade unionists to student associations — during the Cold War with the aim of gauging the potential threat from left-wing subversives, possibly linked to hostile foreign powers.

— Rita MacNeil included in RCMP's spy campaign on women's movement in 1970s

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