Bill C-51: Why it is dangerous and what you can do to fight it
By an independent group of concerned Canadians (and residents of Canada) “Canadians should not be willing to accept such an obvious threat to their basic liberties.” – The Globe and Mail On January...
View ArticleWe can’t arrest our way out of terrorism
By Daniel Hiebert, Co-Director, University of British Columbia, The Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS) Ten years ago, I was approached by members of Canada’s...
View ArticleBill C-51 incompatible with Canada’s commitment to constitutional supremacy...
Sukanya Pillay, General Counsel and Executive Director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association Bill C-51 creates new laws and amends existing laws to create new powers and crimes. One of these new laws...
View ArticleConservative’s ISIS ad violates Geneva Convention, opposition says
By Mary Simpson The Conservative Party of Canada’s new ad using ISIS imagery of prisoners of war to attack the Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau’s stance on the terror group violates the Geneva...
View ArticleIn Your Face: Rules, Conventions and Cultural Sensitivity in the Niqab Debate
By H. Grant Timms I try, up the level of my admittedly low tolerance, to keep an eye on the comments sections of some of the news and political sites on the Internet. Recently, the case of Mrs. Zinera...
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Support for Bill C-51 hits all time low
The support for outgoing Conservative government’s controversial anti-terror legislation has fallen to an all time low, a new poll suggests. Only 16 per cent of Canadians want the incoming Liberal...
View ArticleParis attacks part of ISIS strategy to provoke retaliation and force Muslims...
ISIS carried out the terror attacks in Paris yesterday killing more than 129 people to provoke retaliation against Islamic communities in France as part of their broader strategy of forcing Muslims out...
View ArticleIran releases video alleging US behind Paris attacks
The United States and its allies are the real culprits behind the terror attacks in Paris that killed 137 people, a propaganda video released by the office of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...
View ArticleRights group blasts Ottawa for not helping detained ISIL members, families
OTTAWA — The federal government has been accused of violating its international human-rights obligations by refusing to help dozens of Canadian men, women and children detained in squalid camps in...
View ArticleKingston youth pleads guilty to terror charges after January 2019 arrest
OTTAWA — A teenager arrested in an RCMP raid in Kingston, Ont., last year has pleaded guilty to a series of terrorism-related charges for trying to encourage and facilitate a bomb attack. The...
View ArticleKingston youth pleads guilty to terror charges after January 2019 arrest
OTTAWA — A teenager arrested in an RCMP raid in Kingston, Ont., last year has pleaded guilty to a series of terrorism-related charges for trying to encourage and facilitate a bomb attack. The...
View ArticleCanadian military shrinks Middle East footprint as ISIL fight enters new phase
OTTAWA — Canada's war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has quietly entered a new phase, resulting in plans to keep fewer troops in the Middle East even after the COVID-19 pandemic...
View ArticleCanadian military shrinks Middle East footprint as ISIL fight enters new phase
OTTAWA — Canada's war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has quietly entered a new phase, resulting in plans to keep fewer troops in the Middle East even after the COVID-19 pandemic...
View ArticleCanadian intelligence assessments of Saddam’s Iraq got it right, new paper says
OTTAWA — A new research paper says Canadian intelligence assessments on Iraq were generally accurate in the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 — unlike reports produced in Washington and London...
View ArticleRCMP charge man with falsely claiming involvement in terrorism
OTTAWA — The RCMP has arrested and charged an Ontario man with falsely claiming to have committed terrorist acts. The national police force says the criminal charge against Shehroze Chaudhry, 25, stems...
View ArticleMilitary base housing Canadian troops attacked as U.S.-Iraq tensions escalate
OTTAWA — Canadian troops risk being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iraq, even as the six-year-old fight against the Islamic State group morphs into a geopolitical...
View ArticleTrudeau condemns deadly attack at Nice church that killed three
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned a deadly attack in the French city of Nice on Thursday as a "heinous" act of terrorism, saying that the perpetrators "do not get to define Muslims." An...
View ArticleLegault welcomes applause by Macron, suggests Trudeau giving in to terror...
MONTREAL — France's president called Quebec Premier Francois Legault to thank him for his defence of free speech, Legault said Tuesday. The Quebec premier then criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
View ArticleCanada’s mission in Iraq at a crossroads as ISIL declines, new threats emerge
OTTAWA — More than six years after Canada first deployed troops to the Middle East to help fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces personnel remain in the...
View ArticleFederal government weighs listing Proud Boys as terror group
OTTAWA — Authorities are collecting information about the right-wing Proud Boys group as part of a possible terrorist designation, the federal Liberal government said Sunday as it faced calls to ban...
View ArticleIn mandate letter, PM tells Freeland to spend on temporary measures until...
OTTAWA — Emergency spending to deal with the COVID-19 crisis must not outlast the pain it's meant to salve, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has instructed Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a newly...
View ArticleUS military moves to try Bali bomb suspects at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON — After an unexplained delay, the Pentagon announced plans Thursday to move ahead with a military trial for three men held at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are suspected of...
View ArticleJudge denies CSIS request to collect foreign intelligence
OTTAWA — A court has put the brakes on a Canadian Security Intelligence Service request to collect foreign information, ruling a proposed technique would stray beyond the spy service's legal mandate....
View ArticleAfter Canada’s Proud Boys decision, U.S. lawmakers confront white supremacy...
WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers are coming to grips with what experts warned Thursday is a dangerous and escalating threat of homegrown violent extremism following last month's riots on Capitol Hill....
View ArticleCanada expected to face pressure to reverse withdrawal, send troops to Iraq
OTTAWA — Canada is expected to face pressure this week to reverse a recent drawdown of troops from Iraq as the NATO military alliance prepares to expand its presence in the country. The alliance has...
View ArticleOttawa announces one-year extension to anti-ISIL mission, but offers few details
OTTAWA — Canada is staying in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for another year, though exactly what Canadian troops will be doing there over the next 12 months remains...
View ArticleCanadian special forces supported major Iraqi military assault on ISIL last...
OTTAWA — Some Canadian soldiers supported a major military offensive last month that U.S. and Iraqi officials say killed dozens of fighters loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, according...
View ArticleBiden’s planned U.S. pullout from Afghanistan to use Sept. 11 anniversary as...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden started the clock Wednesday on the long-awaited, long-promised withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, setting the 20th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11,...
View ArticleProud Boys Canada’s demise could stiffen resolve of members, expert warns
OTTAWA — Targeting the Canadian chapter of the Proud Boys with anti-terror legislation has led to the group's apparent demise, but a leading expert says it might have little effect on the broader...
View ArticleCrown seeks life sentence for youth in terrorism case
OTTAWA — The Crown is seeking a life sentence for a teenager who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges including possession of explosive material and counselling someone to detonate a bomb. The...
View Article‘Dark day:’ Police say five pedestrians run down in London, Ont., targeted as...
LONDON, Ont. — A Muslim family of five out for an evening early summer stroll were mowed down by a driver in an "act of mass murder," the mayor of London, Ont., said on Monday. The deadly attack on...
View ArticleThe latest news developments on the fatal attack in London, Ont.
The latest news on the vehicle attack in London, Ont., that killed four members of a Muslim family and seriously injured a nine-year-old boy on Sunday (all times eastern): --- 11 p.m. Public Safety...
View ArticleLondon assault that killed four Muslim family members a ‘terrorist attack’:...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the attack in London, Ont., that killed four members of a Muslim family and left one child in hospital was an act of terrorism. After observing a moment of silence...
View Article‘Act of evil:’ Thousands mourn victims of anti-Muslim attack in London, Ont.
LONDON, Ont. — Thousands of mourners, many wearing purple hijabs, crowded outside a mosque along with several dignitaries Tuesday for an outdoor vigil in honour of four members of a Muslim family...
View ArticlePandemics, climate change among new threats that demand security revamp: PM’s...
OTTAWA — The prime minister's intelligence adviser is calling for an expanded definition of national security in an era of global pandemics, climate change and cyberthreats. In a speech sponsored by...
View ArticleTerrorism in Canada: A timeline of plots, attacks, and allegations
Four members of a Muslim family are dead and one child is in hospital after a hit-and-run in London, Ont. Sunday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called an act of terrorism. Police said...
View Article9/11 terrorist attacks, ensuing war propelled Canada’s military into 21st...
OTTAWA — Andrew Leslie clearly remembers the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The 43-year-old brigadier-general charged with ensuring the army’s ability to talk in battle and disrupt enemy communications was...
View ArticleLearning about 9/11: Attacks part of identity, racism lesson in Canadian...
Most undergraduate students sitting in a class about Canada's military history at the University of Calgary have never known or can't remember a world before Sept. 11, 2001. David Bercuson, an...
View ArticleCharge dropped in Ontario man’s terrorism hoax case: Lawyer
OTTAWA — The lawyer for an Ontario man charged with falsely claiming to have committed terrorist acts as a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant says his client is relieved after the charge...
View ArticleExperts disagree on violent threat posed by incels in Canada
VANCOUVER — Some experts say violent online rhetoric among so-called involuntary celibates is a concern as pandemic rules lift, but others say the threat of violence is overstated among a group of men...
View ArticleCanada’s extends anti-Islamic State mission in Iraq to 2023
OTTAWA — Canada is extending its military mission in Iraq and the Middle East for another year. Defence Minister Anita Anand announced the 12-month extension on Thursday evening, only hours before the...
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