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Canada’s spy agency didn’t report potentially unlawful activity to feds: watchdog

Canada’s spy agency didn’t report potentially unlawful activity to feds: watchdog

Canada’s domestic intelligence agency has failed to report their employees’ potentially unlawful activity and Charter violations, a newly-released watchdog report warns.

Of the 22 instances in which the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) admitted “non-compliance” with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 2023-24, none were formally reported to the federal public safety minister.

I doubt it’s safe to share anything with the Liberal party given they’ve been compromised six ways from Sunday.

China, Islamists, Brookfield etc. Canada is a sieve.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CSIS

CSIS director says Alberta referendum vulnerable to foreign interference

CSIS director says Alberta referendum vulnerable to foreign interference

The head of Canada’s intelligence agency says Alberta’s potential secession vote is susceptible to disinformation and foreign interference from players like Russia.

In an interview with CBC’s The House, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) director Dan Rogers said it’s his agency’s job to “understand and investigate” foreign interference.

“And a referendum like the one in Alberta, that may have a divisive effect on society, is rife for amplification or for the sort of disinformation or foreign interference that we’ve seen from players like Russia in the past,” he told host Catherine Cullen.

I get the impression this guy will say anything Carney wants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CSIS

Canadian intelligence intervened in seven violent threats motivated by Gaza war in 2025

Canadian intelligence intervened in seven violent threats motivated by Gaza war in 2025

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service investigated at least seven priority cases of radicals preparing to commit violence that were at least in part motivated by the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to the CSIS annual public report published on Friday, amid rising concern about religiously motivated violence in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, CSIS, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Canada’s spy watchdog has become too antagonistic, experts warn

Canada’s spy watchdog has become too antagonistic, experts warn

The federal watchdog responsible for keeping Canada’s spy services in check has grown so aggressive in its tactics that the agency is undermining the scrutiny role it was meant to strengthen, two national-security experts warn.

A study by Carleton University professor Stephanie Carvin and University of Ottawa professor Thomas Juneau, says the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency – established in 2019 to independently review Canada’s intelligence agencies − has adopted what the authors describe as a “lemon-sucker” posture. This is seen as an attitude that presumes the worst of the organizations it reviews and prioritizes conflict over constructive accountability.

Probably on Beijing’s order.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCSIS

Fear of reprisals, isolation, anxiety: Report documents mental health concerns at CSIS

Fear of reprisals, isolation, anxiety: Report documents mental health concerns at CSIS

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) employees who came forward as part of an external study investigating mental health at the spy agency described a sometimes isolating and bleak environment “laden with stigma.”

One participant told researchers the “service has a fear of mental illness.”

Those comments are included in a first-of-its-kind research project commissioned by CSIS and published earlier this month in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Researchers spoke to employees who were willing to come forward, with their identities protected, to talk about the unique working environment at the spy agency.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, CSIS

Internal memo flags the promise and pitfalls of expanding CSIS’s foreign spy role

Internal memo flags the promise and pitfalls of expanding CSIS’s foreign spy role

OTTAWA – An internal Canadian Security Intelligence Service memo says allowing the spy agency to collect foreign intelligence overseas would capitalize on its “existing footprint and expertise,” but might also invite a host of problems.

The memo says giving CSIS the capabilities of a foreign human intelligence service — like the American CIA or Britain’s MI6 — could create governance, accountability and privacy concerns about what constitutes a threat, and about the prospect of targeting Canadians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCSIS

Trudeau flunkies halted active CSIS operation in 2022 putting team at risk, watchdog says

A federal watchdog agency says an active overseas clandestine spy service operation was abruptly halted by a top adviser to former prime minister Justin Trudeau, a decision it says needlessly put CSIS officers in danger.

In a report released Thursday, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, or NSIRA, said it had investigated a 2022 Canadian Security Intelligence Service operation that was suspended before later being authorized to proceed.

I’m guessing Beijing or some other ne’er do well nation got in touch with Junior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CSIS

CSIS says it will disclose ‘some information’ about foreign interference to Pierre Poilievre

Canada’s spy agency says it will disclose “some information” about foreign interference to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has resisted getting the national security clearance he needs to review classified documents about the issue because it would muzzle him.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) told CBC News on Saturday that it’s determined “the disclosure of some information to the leader of the Official Opposition through a threat reduction measure is appropriate.”

Classified information is typically shared only with people who have an appropriate security clearance and a relevant need to know, CSIS said in a statement.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCSIS, Election Interference

You too can be a CSIS informant …

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", CSIS

CSIS hiring for diversity within ‘all levels’ of agency

A recent job posting from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) explicitly states the agency is hiring summer co-op students based on diversity.

CSIS told the Western Standard the DEI policy is in place because the intelligence agency believes it appropriately represents Canada’s population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", "Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "Diversity - Code for anti-White racism", Canada, CSIS, WTF?

Friction among regional spies, shadowy CSIS HQ unit a challenge for new intelligence boss

… The reports found officers inside one CSIS regional office would investigate and collect information about alleged PRC interference and share it with a secret special unit at CSIS headquarters “dedicated” to investigating Chinese foreign interference.

There, in theory, members of the special CSIS HQ unit would analyze it and share it across government agencies. Instead, the intelligence often did not get to the people who needed to know. Sometimes, it never even left the service’s own offices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCSIS