Threat to national security

• Suspect a Threat to National Security, Csis Tells Court

To Russian audiences, the SVR makes no secret of its continued high-level espionage and frequently boasts of its theft of financial and industrial secrets to aid the failing Russian economy," the document states. "We'll ask for at least a one-week delay to allow us to meet our client and to take a closer look at the documents," lawyer Stephane Handfield said in an interview.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 13, 2009

• Bernier's Ex No Threat: Tories

The Harper government says Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier's recent romantic liaison is no threat to national security, despite a news report that said his ex-girlfriend's links to the criminal underworld were more recent than previously thought. Bernier's former relationship became political fodder once again Friday after Montreal's La Presse newspaper reported that Julie Couillard lived with a man with ties to the Hells Angels three years ago. The Liberals defended their line of questioning. "Frankly, I'm stunned that the minister and government continue to take the position that this has nothing to do with the public interest," Liberal MP Bob Rae said.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 27, 2009

• Harkat (Re), 2010 FC 1242 (2010)

...[1] Parliament has designed a security certificate regime that provides a named person su..., if disclosed, would harm Canada’s national security or the safety of any person. While nation...In light of a new threat assessment issued by the Ministers, an important n...

• Cour Fédérale

• Ufos No Threat, Hotline Closing, Says U.K. Military

I think it's a stupid thing to do because this could create a threat to national security," said Roy Lake, founder of the London UFO Studies group. "We take this quite seriously. We know that sometimes things can be explained as natural phenomena, but there could be that one thing that's not. I think the government knows damn well what's going on up there, and they're covering it up. "None of the thousands of UFO sightings reported over the years have ever provided substantiated proof of the existence of extraterrestrials," a Ministry of Defence spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government policy. "There is no defence value in investigating UFO reports."

• Winnipeg Free Press
• December 08, 2009

• The Arctic linked to the emerging dominant ideas in Canada's foreign and defence policy.

Abstract: From an international security studies perspective, this article offers a discourrse analysis of Canada's threat perceptions and security rhetoric in the Arctic be... dominant place of security concerns in national perceptions and policies. Rather than being percei...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2011, March 2011

• Climate Crisis Really Does Threaten Global Peace

Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on Earth as we know it to be," Gordon Sullivan, former U.S. army chief of staff, told a congressional panel last month. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee agrees. In awarding the prize Friday to climate campaigner Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it said the stresses of a changing environment may heighten the "danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009

• R. v. Ahmad , 2011 SCC 6 ; [2011] 1 S.C.R. 110, R. v. Ahmad, 2011 SCC 6, 2011 SCC 6 (2011)

... pertaining to international relations, national defence or national security - Whether Parliament'... of information that could pose a threat to international relations, national defence or na...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• Lost Your Passport? That Will Cost You

Other ideas include requiring people to immediately report missing documents, better tracking of lost identification, and expiry dates that render ID invalid after five years or even less. Large numbers of federal documents are reported lost or stolen each year," says the paper. "Some of these documents are inevitably used fraudulently. "The potential for fraudulent use of lost/stolen documents presents a threat to Canada's national security, its economy and to the reputation and economic status of victimized individuals," says the paper.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 10, 2009

• Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) v. Ramadan Agraira, 2011 FCA 103 (2011)

...[1] Mr. Agraira is a foreign national who was found to be inadmissible to Canada on secu... interviewed by an agent of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) during the summer of 2... include: whether the applicant posed a threat to Canada’s security; whether the applicant posed...

• Federal Court of Appeal

• Bail Continues for Suspected Terrorist Harkat

He has been in custody ever since his arrest, even though he hasn't been charged with an offence. On May 23, a federal court judge approved Harkat's bail, citing "unexplained delays" in the case. Yesterday, [Robert Decary] told a packed courtroom that there's "absolutely no evidence" to suggest Harkat's release represents a threat or danger to national security. Harkat's defence team of Matthew Webber and Paul Copeland will have a busy month ahead, first arguing the constitutionality of Harkat's security certificate before the Supreme Court next week.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 10, 2009