By Noor Javed
They sat through more than 12 hours of lectures. They learned how the Mounties got their name, the perils of cyberspace and the extent of Canada’s underground drug trade.
But for the dozen or …

TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL
Are Canadians soft on terror? In the eyes of the nation’s spy chief, Richard Fadden, there’s no doubt about it. The recently appointed director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service fairly sang the …

By Thomas Walkom
The case of the so-called Toronto 18 is widely seen as a major test of Canada’s anti-terror laws. Yet the most serious conviction to date – of 23-year-old Saad Khalid – could have …

By Thomas Walkom
The first member of the so-called Toronto 18 terror plot was sentenced last week. It seems he wasn’t much of a terrorist after all. The judge sentenced him to what was, in effect, …

By Isabel Teotonio
A youth convicted of belonging to a homegrown terror cell plotting to detonate truck bombs will be sentenced as an adult, a Brampton court was told yesterday.
At issue now is how much credit …

Lawyer Faisal Kutty speaks on Civil Liberties in Canada.
November 25, 2008
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Isabel Teotonio
Staff Reporter
Paid police mole Mubin Shaikh did not entrap a youth into an alleged homegrown terror cell, a judge ruled this afternoon in a Brampton court.
Justice John Sproat did not read out his 53-page …

Lawyer Faisal Kutty speaks on Civil Liberties in Canada.
November 25, 2008 – PART II of II
Click here to view Part I.

In the summer of 2006 – Canadian law enforcement rounded up 18 young Muslims, and arrested them on terrorism charges…
Were they a legitimate threat?
Or were the Canadian people fooled?

By Faisal Kutty
THE JUNE 2 ARRESTS in Toronto of 17 men and youths on terrorism charges has ignited a series of …