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Feds giving CSIS millions to beef up presence in restive city of Toronto

The federal government says that it will be providing Canada’s spy agency with hundreds of millions of dollars over the next eight years, including money to enhance its presence in Toronto in the face of mounting global threats.

In the budget announced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland Tuesday, the government said that the country “continues to be targeted by hostile actors, which threaten our democratic institutions, diaspora communities, and economic prosperity.”

We suffer so much diversity we’re foreigners in our own land.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, CSIS

CSIS asking for authority to disclose foreign-interference threats to universities, provinces and cities

Canada’s spy agency is proposing that it be given the legal authority to disclose intelligence to entities such as universities, provinces and municipalities to help combat foreign interference.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service recently released a consultation paper seeking input on a number of proposed changes to the CSIS Act, one of which would allow it to discuss sensitive intelligence with parties beyond the federal government.

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CSIS whistleblowers faced hurdles seeking justice and telling their stories

VANCOUVER – Canadian Security Intelligence Service employees who say the agency’s British Columbia office is a toxic workplace have faced a series of hurdles in speaking out — including a law against identifying themselves or colleagues.

The Canadian Press has published an investigation into claims by the covert officers, including two who say they were sexually assaulted by the same senior colleague while on duty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCSIS

Foreign interference: CSIS told B.C. premier it can’t share intelligence, documents show

Canada’s intelligence service told B.C. Premier David Eby during a briefing on Chinese foreign interference in March that it could not share secret information, according to notes of the meeting obtained by Global News.

The hour-long March 28 meeting between the premier and the regional director general of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service followed a news report alleging China had meddled in Vancouver’s 2022 mayoral election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, CSIS

Question immigration? CSIS is watching. Question Covid policy? CSIS is watching. Speak out against the sexual mutilation of children? CSIS is watching.

Jamie Sarkonak: Is wokeness driving CSIS’s new approach to counter-terrorism?

Half of the country’s counter-terrorism resources are dedicated to ideological threats, says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). With such a strong focus, it’s worthwhile to ask whether CSIS is a hammer in search of a nail.

… Indeed, COVID misinformation is included as a threat factor to Canada, along with Chinese interference and targeting by ISIL, or DAESH. From a distance, it’s hard to say whether this is actually a rising threat, or whether CSIS is simply expanding the scope of national security to appear more inclusive. It’s a distinction that should be made clear.

Ideological extremism of concern is classified by CSIS into four categories: xenophobia, anti-authority sentiments, anti-identity and anti-gender sentiments, and “other” ideological motivations. The final “other” category would include environmental and typically left-wing motivations like environmentalism, though CSIS has said this does not include actions like Indigenous rail blockades.

No wonder CSIS has a patriotic leaker. It appears that another Canadian institution has been compromised by the Liberal Party.

It’s worth noting that the FBI has been caught out fudging the numbers to amplify the “Right-Wing threat.” To the benefit of the Democratic party of course: Democrats Cook the FBI’s Books on Domestic Terrorism

The UK’s “PREVENT” anti-terrorism program went completely off the rails and classified an appreciation of Shakespeare as an indicator of “Right-Wing Extremism” – Is Shakespeare ‘far-right’ now?

In Germany anti-semitic attacks by Muslims are routinely blamed on the “Far-Right” – Germany is accused of downplaying anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims

In Canada we’ve seen our government media work hand in glove with a hate group supporting “Hate Manufacturer” to demonize any opinion to the right of Antifa as “extremist.”

Am I detecting a trend? Bet that gets my name on a list.

Of course reading this blog will likely land you on a CSIS watch list. Sorry bout that;)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, CSIS

CSIS warned COVID-19 would spark wave of conspiracy theories and extremism, documents reveal

Canada’s spy network warned Western governments to brace themselves for radical and sometimes violent attacks as the pandemic began.

Such warnings were outlined in documents prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and stamped “TOP SECRET,” “Confidential” and “SECRET/ CANADIAN EYES ONLY.”

Heavily redacted copies of the reports from mid-2020 were obtained by the Toronto Star under the Access to Information Act.

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CSIS failed to fully consider human toll when disrupting threats, watchdog says

OTTAWA – A new report from the federal spy watchdog says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service failed to adequately consider the potentially serious adverse effects on people and their families when using its powers to disrupt potential threats.

… Eight years ago, Parliament passed legislation allowing CSIS to go beyond its traditional role of gathering information about espionage and terrorism to actively derailing suspected schemes.

For instance, the disruption powers could permit CSIS to thwart travel plans, cancel bank transactions or covertly interfere with radical websites.

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Independent agency probing CSIS after claim that operative smuggled ̷t̷e̷e̷n̷a̷g̷e̷ ̷g̷i̷r̷l̷s̷ ̷ ISIS Sluts into Syria

They knew exactly what they signing up for – a Muslim murder cult.

An independent government agency is reviewing how Canada’s spy agency handles human sources after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in August to follow up on claims that an ISIS member who was also working as a CSIS operative smuggled three British teenagers into Syria in 2015.

The three teens — Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16 — left east London for Syria in 2015. Sultana and Abase are believed to be dead. Begum is at a detention camp in northeastern Syria.

Shamima Begum joined IS with eyes open, UK lawyer says

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

CSIS weighed whether rail blockades supporting Wet’suwet’en could be classed as terrorism

Canada’s civilian spy service assessed whether First Nations land rights activists who disrupt trains should be classed as a “terrorist threat” to national security alongside the likes of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, according to declassified documents.

But the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) eventually decided the label wouldn’t stick after probing the issue in secret, internal studies whose findings were shared with government officials in an unclassified March 2021 counterterror briefing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, CSIS, Terrorism - Domestic

Emergencies Act Inquiry to hear CSIS evidence on ‘Freedom Convoy’ in secret

OTTAWA—A judge leading the federal inquiry into the Liberal government’s use of a special emergency law to end the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests has agreed to hear evidence from Canada’s spy agency at a secret hearing.

In a ruling made public late Wednesday, Justice Paul Rouleau said the federal government asked for a secret hearing — behind closed doors and without other parties present — in order for his commission counsel to examine employees of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service on evidence related to the convoy protest that the agency claims is classified.

It all centres around evidence not yet tabled at the inquiry. And it is unclear what is the subject of the CSIS intelligence that the spy agency wants to protect.

What do they have to hide?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, CSIS

CSIS persuaded Turkey to hide recruitment of operative who trafficked teens to Islamic State

 

The most senior intelligence officer in charge of covert operations at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service went to Ankara in March, 2015, to persuade Turkish authorities to stay silent about the agency’s recruitment of a Syrian human smuggler who trafficked three British teenage girls to Islamic State militants, according to three sources.

The sources said the officer, Jeffrey Yaworski, who was at the time CSIS’s deputy director of operations, was carrying out a discreet but high-level campaign to prevent the spy agency from being publicly blamed for using the smuggler as an operative. The Globe is not identifying the sources because they were not authorized to discuss national security matters.

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

CSIS’s cover-up of Islamic State trafficking backfired, says author

The author of a new book alleging a contractor for Canada’s top spy agency once trafficked three British teens to Islamic State militants said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service delayed alerting U.K. authorities until it became clear the matter would be made public.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CSIS, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Terror suspects like Shamima Begum will be treated like VICTIMS if they exploit modern slavery laws, watchdog warns amid claims Met Police covered for ‘Canadian spy’ who smuggled ISIS bride into Syria

Terror suspects like Shamima Begum could be treated like victims if they exploit modern slavery laws, the terrorism watchdog warned last night.

Explosive claims in a new book that the so-called Jihadi Bride was smuggled into Syria by a spy working for Canada – before Justin Trudeau’s nation then conspired with the UK to cover up its role – emerged this week.

It sparked calls for an inquiry into claims the Met and the government knew the alleged people smuggler was responsible for helping Begum and her two fellow schoolgirls join ISIS while also working as a double agent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CSIS, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Trudeau defends CSIS after over claims agency informant smuggled girls into Syria

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood behind the country’s top civilian intelligence agency on Wednesday in response to an allegation that one of its contractors helped traffic three British teenage girls to Islamic State extremists seven years ago.

A new book by U.K.-based writer Richard Kerbaj — The Secret History of the Five Eyes — is set to be published on Thursday. It claims that an informant for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) smuggled Shamima Begum, 15 at the time, and her school friends Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase — 16 and 15 at the time — into northern Syria, and that the informant told his Canadian handlers.

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