Topic: Canada

Canada announced Wednesday it would move quickly to prosecute a Toronto man accused of planning to fly to Africa to join an Al-Qaeda affiliate battling for control of Somalia.The Public Prosecution Service of Canada said it had filed a direct indictment against ...

Canada's public works minister announced Friday a $1 billion upgrade of 550 light armored vehicles used to transport Canadian troops on battlefields in Afghanistan and elsewhere.General Dynamics Land Systems has been contracted to improve the protection of the Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada will soon bring back controversial anti-terrorism measures, defending them in a television interview that airs Wednesday as "necessary" to thwart possible attacks.The measures allowed for the detention of suspects without charges for up to 72 hours ...

Canada designated the Pakistani Taliban, a militant group behind a wave of bombings in Pakistan and a foiled plot to set off a New York City blast, as a terrorist organization on Tuesday.Putting the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on the terrorism blacklist is "an ...

Advocates for a Canadian-Sudanese man once stranded in Khartoum for six years over his suspected links to Al-Qaeda on Thursday will ask the United Nations to remove his name from its terror watch list.Abousfian Abdelrazik, 49, found himself on the UN no-fly ...

Canada's telecommunications networks are vulnerable to homegrown terrorists, concluded the Special Senate Committee on Anti-terrorism.Along with other critical infrastructure, Canada's telecommunications networks are vulnerable to homegrown terrorists and radical Islamist ideologues. That was the conclusion of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-terrorism ...

A Tamil asylum seeker accused of extremist links for living in a former rebel-controlled area of Sri Lanka is not a threat to Canada, a tribunal ruled Monday."The man's work for the LTTE -- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam designated as a ...

A "Toronto 18" member whom prosecutors say was motivated by greed, not ideology, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for his role in a plot to bomb Canada's main stock exchange in 2006.The Ontario Superior Court sentenced Shareef Abdelhaleem, 35, ...

Canada's prime minister on Monday condemned a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport that killed 35 people and wounded dozens.The government of Canada "strongly condemns" the bomb attack, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement."The use of violence against innocent people ...

A former Ottawa pizza delivery man will appeal a ruling declaring him a security threat linked to Al-Qaeda, his lawyer and family said Friday.The ruling is "a load of bull," Mohamed Harkat's wife Sophie told a press conference, vowing to "never, ever ...