Tag: CSIS

This National Post Columnist Says He Spied for a Foreign Intelligence Agency. Experts Call His Behaviour ‘Unethical’ and ‘Absurd’.

Published August 20, 2024 Analysis

National Post columnist Adam Zivo says he was moonlighting as a foreign intelligence asset at the same time as he worked for the National Post

Wrongdoing, Threats to Security, or Something of that Nature

Published February 13, 2024 Podcast

The CSIS investigation into an Ontario Conservative nomination race

VIDEO: Law expert says Bill C-51 gives Canada’s spy agency power to violate the Constitution

Published March 15, 2015 video

This might leave even James Bond shaken and stirred.

VIDEO: Conservatives think terror law checks & balances are just “needless red tape”

Published February 2, 2015

Sure, critics say Canadians may be watching their country turn into a surveillance state. But here’s one thing they don’t need to worry about: the Harper government promises it won’t create “duplication” and “needless red tape” — specifically democratic checks and balances on Canada’s spy agency. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney sought to put concerns about […]

Chuck Strahl’s defence: I’m no Arthur Porter

Published January 8, 2014

Updated Jan. 10, 2014 Canada’s top spy watchdog is trying to ride out a controversy over lobbying for Enbridge (and at least one other company that’s partnered with a Chinese-controlled firm to develop the tar sands in Alberta). Chuck Strahl, a former Conservative cabinet minister and current chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), popped up […]

Canada’s spywatcher calls the ethics czar A LOT

Published January 7, 2014

This is getting interesting. First, the Vancouver Observer broke the news that former Conservative cabinet minister Chuck Strahl, chair of the Security Information Review Committee (SIRC) since June 2012, is Enbridge’s newest pipeline lobbyist in British Columbia. SIRC is Canada’s spy watchdog overseeing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), so Strahl has access to the […]

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