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Decades-old file on Tommy Douglas not old enough for safe release: CSIS

11 March 2010

Canadian Press, 10 March 2010: If Louis Riel had been hanged in 1885 because of an informer among his Metis rebels, Canada’s spy agency might still be blocking release of that history-changing revelation 125 years later. That hypothetical scenario was put to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service last week as part of a legal [...]

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Former Canadian Research Council scientist denies spying for Iran

9 March 2010

National Post, 8 March 2010: A former National Research Council scientist has been battling the Canadian government over allegations he participated in Iran’s controversial weapons program. Mohammad Jahazi held a high-level post at the NRC’s Institute for Aerospace Research but left Canada in 2008 after Ottawa rejected him as an immigrant for security reasons.
Federal Immigration [...]

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Homegrown terrorist freed after pleading guilty

1 March 2010

Toronto Star, 26 Feb 10: Jahmaal James pleaded guilty on Friday to having gone to Pakistan to obtain paramilitary training for the benefit of the so-called Toronto 18 and was set free after being sentenced to time served. The 26-year-old was to have been released from jail hours after admitting in a Brampton court he [...]

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Canadian terrorist handed toughest sentence

17 February 2010

Globe and Mail, 17 Feb 10: A jihadist from a small town in Quebec who plotted to set off bombs abroad has received the toughest sentence for a convicted Canadian terrorist. Saïd Namouh, 37, who took part in the plot over the internet from his basement apartment in Maskinongé, Que., was handed the maximum sentence [...]

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Canadian CSIS blocking release of spying file on Tommy Douglas

11 February 2010

Globe and Mail, 10 Feb 10: Canada’s spy agency is pulling out all the stops to block the release of decades-old intelligence on socialist icon Tommy Douglas. In an affidavit filed in Federal Court, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service argues that full disclosure of the file on Douglas could endanger the lives of confidential informants [...]

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Johnny X was global spy who became a Canuck

8 February 2010

Canadian Press, 7 Feb 10: Johnny X is Canada’s spy who came in from the cold. An enigmatic secret agent, he spent a lifetime covertly battling Nazis and Communists on several continents while living under a death sentence.
Johnny X, one of his many shadowy aliases, appears only sporadically in the historical record of 20th-century espionage. [...]

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Ottawa rejects former KGB agent’s deportation appeal

29 January 2010

National Post, 28 Jan 10: The Harper government’s new public safety minister has rejected a fresh appeal to stay in Canada from a former KGB agent who has been holed up in a Vancouver church for the last seven months. Vic Toews, who took over the portfolio last week from Peter Van Loan, said Thursday [...]

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CSIS agent defends Harkat ’sleeper’ call

25 January 2010

CANOE, 23 Jan 10: A senior CSIS agent denied a suggestion Friday that the spy agency was “coming up short” with its claims that Mohamed Harkat is an al-Qaida sleeper agent. In his fifth day of cross-examination at the Ottawa man’s security certificate hearing in Federal Court, the CSIS agent — identified only as “John” [...]

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Canada’s man in Tehran was a CIA spy

25 January 2010

Globe and Mail, 23 Jan 10: Ken Taylor, the Canadian diplomat celebrated 30 years ago for hiding U.S. embassy personnel during the Iranian revolution, actively spied for the Americans and helped them plan an armed incursion into the country. Mr. Taylor, ambassador in Iran from 1977 to 1980, became “the de facto CIA station chief” [...]

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Accused terrorist wanted Toronto Al Qaeda branch

14 January 2010

Tornoto Star, 14 Jan 10: Accused terrorist Shareef Abdelhaleem wanted to pack a truck with two tonnes of explosives and detonate it outside the Toronto Stock Exchange to cause “blood, glass and debris (for) several blocks,” court was told Wednesday. The comments surfaced during testimony by undercover police agent Shaher Elsohemy, recalling a May [...]

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Informant won alleged plotters’ trust with expertise

12 January 2010

Globe and Mail, 12 Jan 10: Shaher Elsohemy was moonlighting as an Air Canada flight attendant when one day in 2005 U.S. authorities – in a still unexplained decision – turned him away at the border, leading him into a conversation with Canada’s spy agency that would have dramatic consequences.
When the grounded Egyptian-Canadian prevailed upon [...]

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Toronto man denies plot to bomb Toronto Stock Exchange and cash in

12 January 2010

AFP, 11 Jan 10: A Toronto man Monday pleaded not guilty to plotting to bomb Canada’s main stock exchange in 2006, as prosecutors said he aimed to profit from wreaking economic havoc to fund other terror attacks. Shareef Abdelhaleem, 34, is accused of conspiring to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canada’s spy agency [...]

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Give former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov the gift of freedom: MPs

21 December 2009

Vancouver Sun, 21 Dec 09: Two B.C. members of Parliament invoked the spirit of Christmas Sunday as they called for the government to back down and allow former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov to stay in Canada.
“Christmas is the season of giving and forgiveness, the season of generosity,” said Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh at a news [...]

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Former KGB agent in Vancouver wants federal government to reconsider deportation

21 December 2009

Canadian Press, 18 Dec 09: A former KGB agent who has been hiding in a Vancouver church for the past six months to avoid deportation says the federal government should reconsider his case in light of thousands of pages of newly released documents.
Mikhail Lennikov, who has lived in Canada with his wife and child for [...]

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Did five Torontonians join jihad in Somalia?

14 December 2009

Toronto Star, 12 Dec 09: They hung out at a Somali restaurant in “Little Mogadishu” in the northwest corner of the city, played basketball together, and worshipped at a North York mosque.
The five friends, in their early to mid-20s, grew up and attended schools in Toronto. They spoke English and Somali. At least two [...]

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Canadian at centre of FBI terror probe has Kanata connection

19 November 2009

Globe and Mail, 18 Nov 09: The Canadian man under investigation for possible links to last year’s Mumbai bombings spends Islamic holidays at a suburban Ottawa house backing onto the Kanata Lakes Golf and Country Club.
Although Tahawwur Hussain Rana lives in Chicago, the Kanata home he co-owns has been a gathering place for his far-flung [...]

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Officials worried group in Canada went to join Islamic radicals in Somalia

17 November 2009

National Post, 16 Nov 09: Counterterrorism officials are investigating a group of youths who allegedly left Canada for East Africa two weeks ago, amid concerns they may have gone to join the Somali militant group Al-Shabab.
Two sources familiar with the case said investigators had been canvassing Toronto’s large Somali-Canadian community for information about as many [...]

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