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 …

OTTAWA – In a major test of the country’s new secrecy-shrouded special advocate regime, the Federal Court has quashed an “unreasonable” security certificate and condemned Canada’s spy agency for failing to voluntarily disclose secret evidence …

By Omar Alghabra
The matter of “Security Certificate” is garnering news headlines again. Today, the federal court struck down a certificate against a Mississauga resident.
Security Certificate is a deportation instrument that the government can employ to …

By Thomas Walkom
Another of Ottawa’s national security claims has proved bogus. For more than seven years, the federal government and its security bureaucrats insisted that alleged terrorist Hassan Almrei so threatened Canada that he had …

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 …

From The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — A hunger-striker accused of terrorist links has once again been ordered freed from prison under strict conditions.
In a decision released Monday, Federal Court Justice Edmond Blanchard said Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub …

By Bill Curry
Ottawa — The Federal Court is ordering Canada’s spy agency to disclose a second human source in the Mohamed Harket case, an exceptional decision taken after finding the Canadian Security Intelligence Service “filtered” …

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 …

COLIN FREEZE
Globe and Mail
March 17, 2009 at 9:12 PM EDT
TORONTO – An Egyptian man accused of links to al-Qaeda plans to turn himself in to be returned to jail on Wednesday morning, with his wife …

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 …

Michelle Shephard
NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER
For two hours each day, Hassan Almrei sits tethered to an electrical outlet as he charges the clunky GPS bracelet permanently affixed to his right ankle. He can’t let …