Brenda McPhail

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Recent work

• Civil rights precedents established during the COVID-19 crisis may be the ones we will have to live with when the emergency is pastOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 24, 2020
• Opinion | Companies that collect data must be held to accountOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 29, 2018
• More debate needed on national security reform billOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 23, 2017
• Opinion | More debate needed on national security reform billOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 23, 2017
• McPhail: There are still profound problems with federal anti-terror legislationOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Sep 14, 2017
• McPhail: problems linger with anti-terror billOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Sep 13, 2017
• Encryption actually protects law-abiding Canadians | Toronto StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 9, 2016
• Encryption actually protects law-abiding CanadiansOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 9, 2016