‘Tarnishing our reputation': Winnipeg police address charges against two officers
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Globe and Mail
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- Globe and Mail
CSIS warns threats from Iran in Canada could increase this year, and it is using criminals to target critics
Canada's spy agency is warning that threats from Iran's theocratic regime could increase this year and Tehran will continue to use members of criminal gangs to target its critics in Canada. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service told The Globe this week it is investigating death threats in Canada orchestrated by the republic of Iran. And depending on developments in the Middle East, such threats could escalate here, CSIS cautioned. The spy agency issued its warning after it emerged that two Canadian journalists working for a London-based Persian news outlet have faced threats from Iran. One was told repeatedly they would be abducted, placed in a bag and smuggled out of the country if they did not stop reporting. Lawyers acting for the news outlet, Iran International, have asked experts at the United Nations to intervene with the regime urgently after death and abduction threats to its journalists and their families escalated in the past six weeks. Ottawa strengthens vetting after officials failed to pass on new human-rights chief's alias to RCMP, CSIS CSIS warns 'extremist actors' rhetoric around Israel-Hamas war could lead to violence The escalation coincided with the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear sites and Israel's offensive, which killed dozens of Iranian senior security officials and nuclear scientists. In a statement, CSIS warned that the level of threat posed in Canada by people acting on the Iranian regime's behalf could be influenced by the situation in the Middle East. 'CSIS continues to investigate threats to life emanating from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Given the need to protect our sources, tradecraft, and methods however, we cannot confirm or deny specific investigative details,' said CSIS spokesperson Magali Hébert in a statement. 'CSIS assesses that Iran will continue to use proxies, such as individuals involved with transnational organized crime networks, when it targets perceived enemies living in foreign countries, including Canada.' 'Iranian threat-related activities directed at Canada and its allies are likely to continue in 2025, and may increase depending on developments in the Middle East and the Iranian regime's own threat perceptions,' it added. An alleged plot by agents of Iran to assassinate former justice minister Irwin Cotler was foiled, the RCMP told him last year. The lawyer and founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, who has supported dissidents targeted by Tehran, remains on Iran's hit list and has 24-hour police protection. Lawyers acting for Iran International earlier this week asked five experts at the UN to intervene with the Iranian regime over threats to its journalists and their families, including two in Canada. It appealed to the UN experts to take action to protect the safety of journalists in seven countries: Canada, Britain, the U.S., Sweden, Germany, Turkey and Belgium. The appeal was lodged with five UN special rapporteurs, including Professor Ben Saul, UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, and Irene Khan, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression. Carlos Nagore Diaz, a spokesman for Ms. Khan, said in an e-mail that 'several UN Special Rapporteurs are considering taking urgent action on the renewed credible threats to life,' but any communications with the Iranian regime are currently confidential. 'The Special Rapporteur has consistently raised concerns about threats to reporters working for Iran international and will continue to do so,' he said. Last year, a group of UN rapporteurs, including Ms. Khan and Mr. Saul, wrote to leaders of Iran's regime expressing concerns about threats to journalists working for Persian language outlets abroad including Iran International. Founded in 2017, it has become the most-watched Persian language TV channel in and outside Iran on satellite and online platforms. Headquartered in London, with bureaus in 14 countries, its reporting is often critical of Tehran's theocratic regime. The rapporteurs' May 2024 letter alleged that the Islamic Republic of Iran was directly, and through proxies, menacing journalists working for Iran International as well as their family members in Iran. 'We note that acts and threats of violence, and other measures of intimidation and harassment by the Iranian authorities or its proxies against persons in the United Kingdom and other states, may amount to violations of the sovereignty of those states,' the letter said. It detailed how in March last year Iran International journalist Pouria Zeraati was stabbed in the legs by two assailants outside his home in Wimbledon, London. Two Romanian nationals were subsequently charged with the attack. In its reply to the UN experts' letter, Iran's permanent representation to the UN, rejected 'allegations made about the threats or kidnapping plans' against journalists working for news outlets such as Iran International, whom it referred to as 'agents.' 'To the Islamic Republic of Iran, this anti-Iranian Network and its operatives are terrorists, they will be dealt with according to the relevant laws and will be tried in a fair court, as the case against some agents of this network is being processed,' the letter said. Adam Baillie, spokesman for Iran International, said 'the idea of there being such a thing as a fair trial in Iran under the current regime is an absurdity.' 'The allegations about us being terrorists are ridiculous. We are journalists doing our job and we should be doing it from within Iran itself,' he said. 'Furthermore you should not underestimate the level of threat, both in scale and nature, to journalists working for our channel, including in Canada.' Last week, Canada joined a group of countries including Britain, the U.S., France, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, to publicly condemn a growing number of threats from Iranian intelligence services on their soil. The joint statement, issued by the British foreign office, said Iranian intelligence operatives were increasingly collaborating with international criminal organizations to target journalists, dissidents and others.
CTV News
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- CTV News
Jewish man assaulted in Montreal's Villeray borough; police investigating
Montreal police are searching for a suspect after a 32-year-old Jewish man was punched repeatedly Friday afternoon, an attack captured in a video poste on X.
Globe and Mail
an hour ago
- Globe and Mail
Brace yourself for the rest of Trump 2
The night that Donald Trump won the election for the first time I was in New York. I had parked myself in a bar where young Republicans were gathering to watch the results come in. My assignment was to talk to them after Mr. Trump had lost and write something about the future of the Republican Party after his failure. A look at the post-Trump GOP, in other words. As the evening wore on and state after state went Trump, it became clear that I was never going to do that story. Instead I ended up writing about the reaction of a jittery world to the fact that a real estate mogul and former reality-TV star was poised to become the 45th president of the world's most powerful nation. It seemed incredible that such a person could obtain such power. It seemed doubly incredible when, eight years later, Americans handed him the keys to the White House again. They could be forgiven for electing him once. The American political system had become stagnant and money-driven. Many Americans wanted someone to go in and break some furniture. Mr. Trump seemed just the man. Trump administration could use military action against some drug cartels, Rubio says All the rage: How the UFC became America's most important (and misunderstood) political powerhouse But twice? After everything they had seen in Trump 1? Yes, incredible. Yet it happened, and the world is only beginning to count the cost. We have seen half a year of Trump 2 now (though it seems much longer) and it has been uglier than even his bitterest rivals warned. The U.S. foreign aid program slashed, putting the health and very survival of countless needy people in jeopardy. America's finest universities attacked because they refused to kiss the ring. Immigrants scooped up and dispatched to dank overseas jails. Efforts to fight climate change trashed. The head of the central bank slurred for the crime of trying to control inflation. We are only just into August and already this month the rogue President has fired the respected head of a respected statistics agency for issuing a jobs report he didn't like and imposed punishing new tariffs on some of his country's closest friends, raising the average U.S. tariff rate to the highest level since the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the rogue Health Secretary he appointed has cancelled half a billion dollars worth of contracts and grants for developing the kind of vaccines that helped beat back COVID-19. Far worse is to come. Some countries have managed to strike tariff deals with Mr. Trump. Others, like Canada, are trying. Whatever the result, he is overturning a system of trade and exchange that has fuelled the growth of economies around the world for decades, helping to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty. The United States built that system and profited immensely from it. Now he wants to destroy it, taking an axe to the goose that laid the golden egg. Meanwhile, just for the hell of it, he is undermining his country's fiscal standing to such an extent that it threatens the stability of the American dollar and puts the whole world's financial system at risk. His Big Beautiful Bill will add trillions to the U.S. debt. Then there is the little matter of the future of democracy. America's standing as the citadel of freedom is eroding every day that this man is in office. He refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 election and was found to have helped foment a violent rebellion. He is going after judges that question him and journalists that scrutinize him and civil servants that simply annoy him (like that job-stats official). He is wielding the already-immense executive power of the presidency with the abandon of a tinpot dictator. He is using the office of the presidency to enrich himself. I hate to paint such a dark picture. I am a lifelong admirer of the United States, which for its failings has done far more good than ill. Its sheer dynamism still astonishes, even in the Trump era. Despite all the damage he has done, much is going right in the world. As I wrote earlier this year, global prosperity, health and education have advanced by huge leaps in the past few decades – a fact we often forget amid all the turmoil. There is no reason they should not continue to advance. We know the formula: science, trade, democracy, sound finances. Unfortunately, Donald Trump is an enemy of all of them. I still think the U.S. will right itself somehow, but no one should underestimate the havoc he can cause in the meantime. I didn't see what was coming when I sat in that New York bar in 2016. Perhaps none of us did. Now we know. We should brace ourselves and, in every way possible, resist.
