God Save the King ... from nosy reporters like me. Obtained under the Access to Blank Pages Act. #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

CSE Chief Caroline Xavier interviewed by Wesley Wark thewalrus.ca/canada-fight...

First of all, GBA+ in intelligence isn't really a thing, which Phil would know if he'd ever actually engaged with the topic. (It's primarily a policy analysis tool.)

As we knew all along, these were murders. “The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources.”

These people can fuck right off. Find out who they are and then name and shame. There shouldn't be room in this country for this bullshit. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

It should be noted that, in addition to the US and Great Britain, the Australians and the Dutch also worked on JN-25. doi.org/10.1080/0161...

"The essential question is no longer what federal agencies are authorized to do, but what they are capable of doing. Capability now outstrips authority by orders of magnitude... The true danger lies in what the modern American state can do right now." open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

'The current Labour government does make considerable use of the NSC, but has made some structural changes which have created more distance between policymakers and the intelligence agencies' writes @drceliap-v.bsky.social in latest RUSI Commentary.

How did Canadian officials balance the conflicting responsibilities of a neutral International Control Commission (ICC) representative, and a supportive ally as US intervention intensified in Viet Nam during the complicated years of 1962–1966? This Canadian policy series previews key moments.

Sloppy reporting by @theguardian.com, which should have made clear that foreign vessels are free to enter the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone, which is different from the 12 nautical mile territorial sea.

The Yantar's activities are threatening and its use of lasers inexcusable. But it is irresponsible in a claim like this not to clarify whether the ship ever entered actual territorial waters as opposed to the UK's Exclusive Economic Zone (where foreign vessels have a right to travel).

Empire and satellite tracking collide. This is a commemorative stamp of the U.S. Air Force satellite tracking station on Mahe Island in the Seychelles, a British territory until 1976. The defunct station is pictured on the right.

New article published in Intelligence and National Security (open access) by Peter de Werd titled "The value of engaged critique: civic intelligence oversight and the freedom of information in the Netherlands" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scoop: CISA plans to embark on a hiring spree and change some workforce policies in an effort to rebuild its depleted ranks ahead of a possible conflict with China, according to a memo from its acting director that I obtained. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-hi...

UK downplays reports it has stopped sharing intelligence with US regarding narco-traffickers

A counterproductive and unlawful U.S. policy: Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal: Canada Colombia EU France Mexico Netherlands? UK We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.

🚨SCOOP 🚨The Pentagon is spending millions on a secretive startup that’s making hacking AI to help carry out operations on hundreds of targets at once. In-q-tel, the VC org founded by the CIA, is a backer of the startup, called Twenty. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

It’s hard to even know where to begin with this. Professor Falk is in his 90s and one of the world’s most prominent international legal scholars. It beggars belief that he could even remotely be considered a threat to Canada.

If you suspect Golden Dome to be crazy, exorbitantly expensive, unrealistic, and deeply destabilizing, you’re right. And it looks like a sure way to create a space race that will threaten civilian (and military) use of space even more. breakingdefense.com/2025/11/gold...

" the boost that the current government has promised to the defence sector is not based on any solid strategic plan. Defence spending is meant to increase to five percent of GDP, but nobody seems to know what this money will be spent on and to what purpose."

The Access to Information Act is a complete shambles and suffocating Canadian history, exhibit 3007. It is wild – and tragic – that a briefing on the general contours of Canada's foreign policy regarding Europe from 1951 are still closed.

I know not everyone is a fan of Substack, so if you want to access our Insight Monitor, you can do that directly through our website. Free articles are in our news section, and paywalled articles are in our members area: www.insightthreatintel.com/members

Book Review: The Business of Secrets The Business of Secrets: Adventures in Selling Encryption Around the World by Fred Kinch (May 24, 2004) From the vantage point of today, it's surreal reading about the commercial cryptography business in the 1970s. Nobody knew anything. The manufacturers didn't…

Cyber resilience starts local. Hear Shelly Bruce on grassroots cybersecurity at Policy Village, BSides Ottawa. #CyberSecurity #Grassroots

Australia's intelligence chief warned that Chinese hackers are trying to break into its networks, sometimes successfully, to "pre-position" for sabotage ahead of an anticipated invasion of Taiwan.

Potential Privy Council Office intelligence cuts ‘counterintuitive & risky,’ say national security experts. According to experts, Mark Carney should be expanding his access to relevant analysis rather than shrinking from the standards set by Canada's "partners." hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.

Issue 75 of @photoeditorial.bsky.social is now available and it's beautiful. I'm chuffed to have two articles in this issue, one on the border-related projects of Ruth Kaplan and Isabelle Hayeur, as well as one on the public Photo Walk developed by the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa.

This conference is going to be superb. We hope to see you there. www.bletchleypark.org.uk/nihc/

📢New blog by Ernie Regehr - Arctic Military Preparedness Needs More “Jaw Jaw” Of course, all eight Arctic states insist that beefing up military preparedness is intended to avoid, not fight, an Arctic war... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/11/11/a...

Also Canada? "Canada intends to continue its partnership with the Coast Guard, called Operation Caribbean [sic; CARIBBE]. But the country has made clear to the US that it does not want its intelligence being used to help target boats for deadly strikes, the sources told CNN." 1/2

Canadian cyber operations continuing to grow. CSE cyber operations spending in 2024-25 was $59.88 million, five times the $11.93 million spent in 2023-24. www.tbs-sct.canada.ca/ems-sgd/edb-...

Hegseth is now responsible for 75 murders in 19 attacks.

Canadian cyber operations continuing to grow. CSE cyber operations spending in 2024-25 was $59.88 million, five times the $11.93 million spent in 2023-24. www.tbs-sct.canada.ca/ems-sgd/edb-...

By popular demand (read: maybe three people asked me) — some thoughts on Kathryn Bigelow's new film, "A House of Dynamite." TOTAL SPOILER ZONE, you have been warned! doomsdaymachines.net/p/bolt-out-o...

“Canadian authorities later obtained their own intercept corroborating the involvement of Indian officials, among them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah.” would be nice if PMMC could enter phylum chordata & start having a backbone globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

It's been a big week of news for the Australian intelligence community! 🕵 Full links below, but we've seen addresses from three agency heads in the space of one week - ASIO's Mike Burgess, ACIC's Heather Cook, and AGO's Kathryn McMullan. Get your eyes and ears around it 🧵

Our latest edition, Vol 40, No. 5 is out now! This edition is a Special Issue on Strategic Surprise and Early Warning. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fint20/c...

A fun look at efforts to make sense of unusual intercepts in the early days of Canada's signals intelligence effort in WWII. declassified.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/sho... Looking forward to the author's future writing.

Russian propaganda, infiltration and Quislings in the High North. www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...

For the second time in two years, Cato has sued the DOJ and FBI for records on their use—and abuse—of FISA Section 702 surveillance. The public deserves to know whether this program protects Americans or targets them.

So many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/policy-submi... (1/x)

The seemingly outsized cuts to Global Affairs Canada in Budget 2025 are hard to square with the government’s repeated call to expand and deepen Canada's international partnerships. Reinvesting in the military is welcome – but defence is just one tool of our international policy.

@ddimolfetta.bsky.social looks at the consequences of layoffs and furloughs on the NSA's hacking and espionage missions, which may be faltering as people leave or sit at home: www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

My FOIA request regarding the Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) has resulted in the release of 5 documents related to wheel-motion studies on this machine. Britain and the USA used the CCM during the Second World War, and NATO used it in the 1950s. Continued...

“It’s astonishing how the industry is able to experiment on human populations with such far-reaching technology and largely unrestrained.” Citizen Lab director @rondeibert.bsky.social discusses the ethical risks of AI in an interview with the @financialpost.com. financialpost.com/technology/c...