CSE's Year of the Fire Hose: Canada's signals intelligence agency is deluged with cash luxexumbra.blogspot.com/2026/02/year...

To spy, or not to spy: Canadian government consideration of a foreign intelligence agency, 1945–2007 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Canada's new foreign interference watchdog says his mandate could include monitoring any attempt by foreign interests to interfere in a possible Alberta referendum on separating from Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

When my father served in the armed forces (1939-1945) the entire organization was antifa, and the conservatives of those days didn't have a problem with that.

Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces, @alexboutilier.bsky.social reports globalnews.ca/news/1168850... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

Today is going to be a very interesting sitting of the Senate. (I mean. It's always interesting. I promise. But today is going to be especially so.) #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #Canada #SenCa

The FY 26-27 budget of Canada's SIGINT agency, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), is projected to be $2 billion (www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...). CSE's budget first hit $1 billion just three years ago in FY 23-24. In FY 00-01 it was $129 M ($232 M in today's money).

One of the shoes I’ve been waiting to drop is that Trump has weaponized every other part of the federal government, but we’ve as yet heard fairly little about abuse of the IC’s vast surveillance capabilities. I doubt this is because they’re too scrupulous to do that sort of thing.

The Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy’s #Intelligence and #Security Digital Seminar Series is in full swing! 💥 Our stellar lineup continues 10 March with Professor Richard J. Aldrich 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 For detals on our forthcoming speakers and to register: www.hhs.se/en/research/...

For the last two years I’ve been finding & sharing artworks relating to intelligence. Today I bring you “Budanov and the Magical Frog” (2024) by Ukrainian artist Yevgenia Gapchinska. It depicts Kyrylo Budanov then head of Ukrainian military intelligence #ArtofSpying #SlavaUkraini

More lawless slaughter at sea—this time three people reportedly killed in the Caribbean. Don’t let the administration’s specious terrorism talk fool you. The term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.

The latest Canadian Cyber in Context News Rewire is out, where I compile cyber news relevant to Canada. www.cyberincontext.ca/p/canadian-c...

🚨🎙️This might be the most important episode of Secure Line we've ever done. We speak to Dr. Emily Corner about grievance-fuelled violence, school shootings, and Tumbler Ridge. Please listen, and share with friends and family. youtu.be/SXTg0ZPOBPY?...

Another 3 people murdered with the USA military. This is mass, serial murder to make propagandistic snuff pron ; violation of international humanitarian law; & a crime against humanity b/c “legitimate command authorities” doing repeated murder of civilians w/USA state & military forces.

Just so we're clear, the Minister is announcing here that FINTRAC will do its job. There are no new positions, funding, or resources for this work. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In a Story Corps segment broadcast on @npr.org’s Morning Edition earlier today, former USAF Lt. Col. Randall Lanning vividly recalled the time in 1974 his Launch Control Center unexpectedly received a valid Emergency Action Message to prepare to launch the 10 Minuteman II ICBMs under its control.

I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical. It's a long one: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

My forthcoming book with @srdj.bsky.social has a cover and will be out this winter with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

🚨🎙️Season 3 Episode 2 is out now! Secure Line talks state-sponsored assassinations and organized crime. Have a listen on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Uy...

The Trump administration’s lawless killing spree continues with three more maritime strikes—two in the Pacific and one in the Caribbean. 11 more people reportedly killed. No amount of terrorism talk renders this slaughter lawful.

CSIS/ITAC saying what researchers have been saying for years: "anti-feminist ideology can function as an enabling factor along pathways to violent extremism" globalnews.ca/news/1166168...

NEW @citizenlab.ca report: Cellebrite Used on Kenyan Activist and Politician Boniface Mwangi citizenlab.ca/research/cel...

Please read our latest on how Israel's Cellebrite is being used to break into the phone of a prominent pro-democracy activist. This time, in Kenya. Guess who else has access to this tool? (with Carlos Mureithi) cc @rondeibert.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

NEW: Australia's Department of Defence Cyber Warfare division has quietly signed the agency's biggest ever contract with controversial tech company Palantir. www.crikey.com.au/20...

I had the opportunity to rise during Senate Question Period this week, to ask about the Canadian government's continued commitment to using X for official communications - and about their failure to use sites such as Bluesky and Mastodon. What do you think? #cdnpoli #Canada #Grok #X #Bluesky

June 1965, a newspaper headline read "LBJ's man in Vietnam Really a Top Canadian", Op. Bacon may have been burned. Beyond the operation’s confidentiality breach, there was considerable concern that Bacon was “exacerbating DRVN antagonism to the USA and annoyance with Canada”.

The full image is now up. Pituffik Space Base / Thule Air Base, Greenland as captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite on August 17, 1976. spacefromspace.com/declassified...

This report came out before you were elected, @mark-carney.bsky.social, but now it's your responsibility. What is your plan to address this? #cdnpoli

In October 2024, the "Canadian Intelligence History at the Crossroads: Historical Reflections on the Occasion of CSIS' 40th Anniversary" conference was held in Ottawa. The conference was supported in part by generous donations from CSIS and CSE. 1/5

On Feb 19 join the Citizen Lab's Kate Robertson to discuss the role of technology and the current state of play in border externalization. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🗞Today's Insight Monitor is out! It's all the Terrorist Financing news from around the world last month. Having trouble staying caught up with all the news? We've got you covered! Have a read: newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/global-ter...

Trump and Putin are killing what remains of the nuclear guardrails that have help prevent the use of nuclear weapons for over fifty years. Why? What was the New Start treaty they just killed and what comes next? It’s nothing good. source=Z2lkOi8vc3VwZXJjYXN0LXdlYi9TdWJzY3JpcHRpb24vMTE2NDM0NA

What about "academic counter-intelligence" agencies? Asking for a friend :)

Poll shows academics and intelligence agencies are the most trusted Canadian institutions.

My new article is up. It is about Ukraine's attack on a space tracking station and the history of that large facility during the Cold War: thespacereview.com/article/5155/1

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

As America weaponizes its post-9/11 security state to terrorize migrants and target dissidents, her (former) allies need to unplug from it ASAP. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Wyden has been on the Senate intel committee for many years. The letter signifies that he's been briefed on a major CIA covert action -- as is legally required -- and the briefing was alarming. He wouldn't do this unless he believed a great deal is at stake. www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...

Ottawa to reduce warrantless powers for law enforcement in border-security bill. "Records obtained thru access to info ... show that CSIS worked with the federal Public Safety Department on drafting sections of Bill C-2 ..." By Marie Woolf theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

With the recent declassification of the US Jumpseat eavesdropping satellite, which are on a high altitude elliptical orbit, here is some content to give more context. First, a primer on what you can listen to with this kind of satellite: satelliteobservation.net/2017/06/04/s...

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—the last arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, which limits strategic nuclear weapons—expires this Thursday. To understand the implications of a world without New START, the Bulletin invited leading experts to share their views.

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5151/1

📢 New blog by Paul Meyer - Will Carney’s “Third Path” Suffer the Fate of the “Third Option”? Should this take the form of a NATO minus one, a UN minus permanent members of the Security Council, a revamped World Trade Organization (WTO)?... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2026/02/03/w...

Le lt Moses Hazen et des miliciens arrivent à Ste-Anne-des-PaysBas (auj. Fredericton). Ils brûlent les 150 maisons, chapelles, granges &grain. Les Acadiens s’étaient enfuient mais sur le chemin de retour, ils voient une maison, ils tuent et scalpent 6 hommes. Les miliiens avaient l’ordre de «tuer

Pressure works. Contact your MP and ask Parliament to investigate the extent to which Canadian companies are working with and actively helping ICE. Info below.

Here's a photo of the Hughes Aircraft management team at the Aerospace Data Facility at Buckley Air National Guard Base (now Space Force Base) in Colorado. The ADF operated the JUMPSEAT satellites and still operates their successors. Photo probably taken in 1976 or shortly afterwards.

The US National Reconnaisance Office has declasslifed the JUMPSEAT program, which had signals intelligence satellites in Molniya orbit starting in 1971.