June 24, 2011 Earlier this month, Jonathan Kay attended a Parliament Hill conference in Ottawa entitled “Terrorism in Canada: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Strategies,” put on by the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), featuring prominent terrorism experts from both sides of the border. In the Canadian context, David Harris, the former chief of strategic…
News Agencies – May 20, 2011 A high-profile CSIS and RCMP informant who was crucial to the prosecution in the “Toronto 18” terror plot is confident his name will be cleared after Canadian authorities flagged him to U.S. authorities as a potential security threat. Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks link Mubin Shaikh to those…
Ottawa citizen Monia Mazigh has published a book about her struggle to free her husband Maher Arar from a security prison in Syria in 2002. Arar disappeared while on a return flight to Canada in September 2002, was detained by U.S. authorities while in transit in New York and then falsely accused on being an…
