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OTTAWA -- Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has restored a woman's conviction for attempting to kill her mother by injecting her with insulin.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says a case against two people for alleged drug offences will go to trial in Ontario after it was derailed due to a delay.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the cases of two inmates who challenged the use of rotating lockdowns at a Nova Scotia jail.
OTTAWA -- The vice-chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency says the spy watchdog will face "very difficult choices" about what it examines in coming years due to federal budget cuts.
OTTAWA -- The vice-chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency says the spy watchdog will face "very difficult choices" about what it examines in coming years due to federal budget cuts.
OTTAWA -- The RCMP says it teamed up with other law enforcement agencies to seize 386 kilograms of fentanyl and significant amounts of other illicit drugs over a five-month period.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says an investor can pursue legal action against a mining company on the basis that it did not immediately publicize information about a production setback.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says an investor's legal action against a mining company over its decision not to immediately publicize information about a production setback can proceed.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has sent a murder case back to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in light of potential new evidence.
OTTAWA -- Canada's financial intelligence agency is warning of an increase in cases of sexual extortion of children for profit -- acts that often are linked to organized crime.
More than a dozen women's advocacy groups are denouncing what they call federal government inaction on a gun control measure designed to save lives. In a statement issued today, the organizations chastise the Liberals for failing to bring into force a key provision in firearms legislation passed almost two years ago. The measure would make anyone subject to a special...
OTTAWA -- More than a dozen women's advocacy groups are denouncing what they call federal government inaction on a gun control measure designed to save lives.
OTTAWA -- Interior and security ministers from Canada and the other Group of Seven countries are pledging to work together to aggressively fight transnational organized crime.
OTTAWA -- Magnus Brunner, the European commissioner for internal affairs and migration, says security officials from around the globe are discussing ways to better fight organized crime.
OTTAWA -- Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree plans to meet his Group of Seven counterparts and others in Ottawa today to discuss problems including transnational organized crime.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says a federal prisoner can challenge a refusal to reclassify them to a lower-security facility through a habeas corpus hearing before a judge to determine if a detention is lawful.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a case about applications for access to personal information held by Jehovah's Witnesses congregations.
OTTAWA -- A well-known gun control group is telling Prime Minister Mark Carney it would be "disingenuous and even hypocritical" for Liberal MPs to wear white ribbons to mark the anniversary of the Montreal massacre given the government's lack of action on key firearm measures.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld impaired driving conditions in two cases, saying criminal law amendments enacted in 2018 were intended to streamline prosecutions based on breath test results.
OTTAWA -- Canadian Security Intelligence Service director Dan Rogers warns that spies from China and Russia have a significant interest in Canada's Arctic and those developing its potential.
OTTAWA -- The federal prison ombudsman says weak policies, insufficient training and a lack of specialized treatment are hindering the Correctional Service of Canada's efforts to deliver mental health care.
OTTAWA -- Many Canadian travellers to Europe are being asked to reveal more about themselves as officials begin to usher in new security measures.
Justice Minister Sean Fraser has rejected calls to use the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that said one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography violate the Charter of Rights. Fraser says the path forward involves policy choices and that the government is eyeing new legislation with harsher penalties for online...
OTTAWA -- Justice Minister Sean Fraser has rejected calls to use the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that said one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography violate the Charter of Rights.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was counselled to push back during an April call with Donald Trump if the U.S. president revived his complaints about border security, fentanyl from Canada or low defence spending, a newly released memo shows. Federal officials prepared the internal memo to guide Carney's conversation with Trump following the Liberal party's April 28 election victory. A concise...
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney was counselled to push back during an April call with Donald Trump if the U.S. president revived his complaints about border security, fentanyl from Canada or low defence spending, a newly released memo shows.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says the one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional.
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns that hacktivists have been tampering with online systems that control water, energy and agricultural facilities.
OTTAWA -- The federal anti-money laundering agency says it made more than 100 disclosures of "actionable financial intelligence" in support of probes into illicit opioids between last November and the end of March of this year.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the acquittal of a man who was arrested at the scene of a drug overdose, saying he had immunity under a law intended to reduce the number of substance use deaths.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the acquittal of a man who was arrested at the scene of a drug overdose, a ruling that clarifies application of a law intended to reduce substance use deaths.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada will review the case of a man who received a sentence to be served under house arrest for illegal handgun possession.
OTTAWA -- The federal auditor found "significant gaps" in the government's cybersecurity services, monitoring efforts and responses to active attacks on information systems.
OTTAWA -- The federal auditor found "significant gaps" in the government's cybersecurity services, monitoring efforts and responses to active attacks on information systems.
OTTAWA -- The federal auditor general says there are "significant gaps" in the government's cybersecurity services, monitoring efforts and responses to active attacks on information systems.
OTTAWA -- Canadian ocean research is among the scientific fields that could be vulnerable to foreign espionage, theft or misuse because people overlook its value to adversaries, says a report commissioned by the federal government.
OTTAWA -- The federal Liberals say they plan to direct banks to put new policies and procedures in place to detect and prevent fraud as part of a national strategy to fight scammers.
The federal Liberals say they plan to direct banks to have new policies and procedures in place to detect and prevent fraud. The proposed legislative amendments would require that banks obtain the express consent of account holders before enabling transfers and payment capabilities that fraudsters use to steal money. The changes -- part of a pre-budget announcement today -- would...
OTTAWA -- The federal Liberals say they plan to direct banks to put new policies and procedures in place to detect and prevent fraud as part of a national strategy to fight scammers.
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says it's committed to "ongoing review and improvement" of its use of new technologies following a critical spy watchdog report.
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Security Intelligence Service lacked "adequate policies and procedures" to manage a confidential technology for collecting information, says a newly released spy watchdog report.
A newly released spy watchdog report says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service lacked adequate policies and procedures to manage a secret technology for collecting information. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency says CSIS mischaracterized a novel technical capability as an extension of existing know-how. The report says this led to CSIS not consulting Public Safety Canada in a timely...
The Liberal government's efforts to revise Canada's national security strategy hit a snag when it became clear earlier this year that many of the assumptions underlying the work were "no longer valid," a newly released memo reveals. John Hannaford, the Privy Council clerk at the time, told Prime Minister Mark Carney in the memo that "changes to Canada's strategic environment"...
OTTAWA -- The Liberal government's efforts to revise Canada's national security strategy hit a snag when it became clear earlier this year that many of the assumptions underlying the work were "no longer valid," a newly released memo reveals.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked each of his cabinet ministers and secretaries of state to identify three to five "key objectives" that will help the Liberal government achieve its core missions. In a July 8 letter, Carney gave the ministers and secretaries less than three weeks to map out these priorities for action over the next year, preferably using...
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked each of his cabinet ministers and secretaries of state to identify three to five "key objectives" that will help the Liberal government achieve its core missions.
OTTAWA -- Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says he is open to amending proposed border security legislation that would make it easier for police to obtain access to information about Canadians.
The Liberal government has introduced a second border security bill that contains several measures from a bill tabled in June -- provisions it hopes Parliament will pass soon. The government will still pursue passage of the first bill, which proposes giving authorities controversial new powers to search mail and access personal information. The move means the federal border security proposals...
OTTAWA -- The Liberal government has split its border security bill in two in the hope of seeing some measures pass swiftly while giving Canadians more time to evaluate other, more contentious ones.
OTTAWA -- Five premiers say Ottawa's recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
OTTAWA -- The federal Liberals are signalling plans to revamp their border security bill in response to widespread concerns about its impacts on civil liberties and privacy.
OTTAWA -- While Canada is not a superpower in the traditional sense of the word, it's "certainly a democratic superpower," Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Monday at a ceremony to open the Supreme Court's judicial year.
OTTAWA -- Chief Justice Richard Wagner says that while Canada is not a superpower in the traditional sense of the word, it is certainly a democratic superpower.
OTTAWA -- A new report from a federal security task force says foreign interference activities during the last general election were "small scale" and often difficult to attribute to an actor from abroad.
A national spy watchdog has found "a lack of rigour" in the way the Canada Revenue Agency selects charities for audits over terrorism concerns, saying the process introduces risks of bias and discrimination. In a newly released report, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency says the Review and Analysis Division of the CRA's charities directorate lacks an evidence-based method...
OTTAWA -- A national spy watchdog has found "a lack of rigour" in the way the Canada Revenue Agency selects charities for audits over terrorism concerns, saying the process introduces risks of bias and discrimination.
OTTAWA -- A national spy watchdog has found "a lack of rigour" in the way the Canada Revenue Agency selects charities for audits over terrorism concerns, saying the process introduces risks of bias and discrimination.
OTTAWA -- The lawyer for a man accused of accessing Prime Minister Mark Carney's banking data says he is still awaiting some information from the Crown in the case.
Justin Trudeau had clear guidance on what to say early last November in the event he should pick up the phone to congratulate Kamala Harris on becoming the first woman president of the United States. Advisers suggested he remind Harris of their most recent meeting at a conference in Pennsylvania the previous May. "When we met in Philadelphia, you said...