MONTREAL – Adil Charkaoui, the Moroccan-born Montrealer detained for almost two years under a security certificate without charge or trial, is suing the federal government for $24.5 million.
Charkaoui spent years under strict …

If you don’t have the opportunity to read the Federal Court ruling (which is really worth reading), you might be interested by this summary analysis prepared by Matthew Behrens.
The link to the actual …

By JIM BRONSKILL and SUE BAILEY

OTTAWA — The federal government has launched a sweeping review of a crumbling anti-terrorist law, acknowledging the system needs fixing, The Canadian Press has learned.
“We are working on it …

By Ron Atkey
There could not have been a starker contrast between the visions of our security intelligence agency and our national police force, described by Wesley Wark in The Globe and Mail last week (Post-9/11 …

From The Canadian Press
MONTREAL – Adil Charkaoui spent more than six years under suspicion of being a terrorist operative, spent 21 months in jail, had his movements tracked with an electronic bracelet, and missed the …

By Craig Forcese
The security certificate system as a tool of anti-terrorism is dead. Last week, the government abandoned its case against Adil Charkaoui, supposedly as a lesser evil to disclosing information it says would jeopardize …

Ottawa’s controversial security-certificate program to rid Canada of alleged spies came with a multimillion-dollar price tag

By Colin Freeze
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

Ottawa has spent $60-million over the past two years in its failed …

March 01, 2009
By Justin Podur
On February 20, the Federal Court of Canada dropped most of the conditions it had placed on one of the prisoners of its “security certificate” regime, Adil Charkaoui. While much of …