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Canada’s spy watchdog Arthur Porter resigns following National Post revelations
By Kathryn Blaze Carlson and Brian Hutchinson Arthur Porter, the chair of Canada’s spy review board, resigned on Thursday amid revelations of his business dealings with a notorious international...
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The long reach of Ari Ben-Menashe
By Brian Hutchinson and Graeme Hamilton One of Ari Ben-Menashe’s arms deals landed him in a U.S. jail for nearly a year. He was, he claims, an Israeli spy who was directly involved in the Iran-Contra...
View ArticleMcGill University Health Centre forms special committee to oversee departure...
MONTREAL — The board of the McGill University Health Centre issued a statement Monday reiterating its support for embattled executive director Arthur Porter after an emergency meeting Sunday, but...
View ArticleBanks allowed to refuse lobbyist’s business: court
MONTREAL • Ari Ben-Menashe, the lobbyist whose dealings prompted Canada’s top spy watchdog to resign last week, is about to lose his banking privileges in Canada after a judge refused to intervene...
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Senior lawyer quits Heenan Blaikie after Post reports ties to controversial...
By Graeme Hamilton and Brian Hutchinson MONTREAL • A senior partner at one of Canada’s most prestigious law firms has resigned, less than a month into an internal review that began when he told the...
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Ottawa abolishes spy overseer’s office
The government did away with an office mandated to oversee the activities of Canada’s spies Thursday, a move critics say opens the door to abuses of power by the secretive Canadian Security...
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Brian Hutchinson: Former spy watchdog Arthur Porter wanted for alleged...
Arthur Porter was a one-man charm offensive. Always polite, ever-smiling. Bow tie and dimples. A quick laugh, but there seemed a nervous edge to it. “I’m in very sensitive positions,” he told me, in...
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Porter lobbied Cote d’Ivoire to become an honorary consul for corrupt African...
Arthur Porter now sits in a Panamanian jail, waiting for extradition to Canada where he faces criminal charges including conspiracy, money laundering and fraud. It’s a stunning reversal of fortune for...
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‘He bamboozled everyone’: Banker linked to Arthur Porter sees himself as...
The private banker who helped alleged fraudster Arthur Porter pursue offshore business activities and brought him into the Swiss-controlled bank where illegal kickbacks from a massive Quebec...
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Letter warning Stephen Harper against appointing Arthur Porter to oversee spy...
A letter warning in stark language against the appointment of Arthur Porter to oversee Canada’s spy agency in 2008 appears to have gone unheeded or unnoticed by the prime minister’s office at the time....
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Wesley Wark: The rise and fall of Arthur Porter
Arthur Porter led a seemingly charmed life, which took him from the impoverished country of his birth, Sierra Leone, to elite Cambridge University, where he earned a medical degree. The young Arthur...
View ArticleJohn Ivison: Tories intent on politicizing what should be a non-partisan...
The most significant expansion in the surveillance powers of the Canadian state in recent years has crept in on cat’s paws. The opposition parties, who found themselves offside from public opinion when...
View ArticleNational Post View: Stronger oversight, safer Canada
Since the Tories brought out their proposed anti-terrorism bill, C-51, critics have taken the government to task for what is perceived to be lax oversight of Canada’s spy agencies: the Canadian...
View ArticleColin Kenny: What real intelligence oversight would look like
If the Prime Minister thought public pressure to institute a more robust review system for national security would slowly die down, he has miscalculated. Last week, a number of former prime ministers...
View ArticleFull Pundit: Quebec’s values debate goes national
WEEKEND ROUNDUP This is going to get worse before it gets better If you really need it explained to you why a woman wearing a hijab in a courtroom isn’t the same thing as a man wearing sunglasses, and...
View ArticleFull Pundit: ‘Are you there, God? It’s me, the Old Duff’
WEEKEND ROUNDUP Mike Duffy, victim Conrad Black, writing in the National Post, suggests the dreary, greasy details of the Duffy affair are a reminder that while Stephen Harper and his government have...
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Near-doubling of Canada spy watchdog suggests shift to super agency to handle...
The near-doubling of funding for Canada’s chief security intelligence watchdog could signal a gradual move to a single super-agency to oversee the country’s expanding national security apparatus, say...
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John Ivison: Canadians not so eager to weaken our country’s anti-terrorism...
OTTAWA — In the general election campaign, the Liberals were vocal about repealing the “problematic elements” of the Conservative government’s anti-terror legislation. In the wake of the carnage in...
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Liberal plan for new national security watchdog gets thumbs up from experts,...
OTTAWA — Leading security and intelligence experts generally applaud the novel Liberal legislation to stand up a committee of parliamentarians to examine and publicly report on the efficacy and...
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Spy watchdog that triggered scathing rebuke of illegal CSIS activities facing...
OTTAWA — The federal watchdog that triggered this week’s scathing judicial rebuke of Canada’s spy service for illegal activities faces significant job cuts because of a chronic lack of sustained...
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