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Jan 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. A Chinese student has been denied a visa to study in Canada due to concerns his research could be used to enhance Beijing’s military programs. canlii.ca/t/k21232. The CSIS report on the student raised concerns that his area of study, microfluidics, 'has important military applications, particularly for the production of chemical and biological warfare agents, which can be made on a scale that is easier to conceal.'
Dec 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Terrorism Offenders: the Parole Board of Canada just released the public, santized version of its written decision granting parole to a terrorist sentenced to life for plotting the murder of hundreds of Canadians in 2006. 2. As the decision acknowledges, nobody seemed to want him to be released, not the Correctional Service Canada, not the halfway house he wanted to go to. Even Abdelhaleem said he didn't think he deserved it.
Dec 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. Yesterday, the Iranian regime hanged a journalist for the ridiculous charge of "corruption on earth." cnn.com/2020/12/12/mid…2. Here is the Liberal Party's MP for Richmond Hill, sponsoring a petition in Parliament to re-establish diplomatic relations with this same regime. petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/De…
Sep 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. "I'm the biggest thorn to the kuffar living here." More deleted posts from the Facebook page of Shehroze Chaudhry, Canadian arrested Friday for allegedly faking his involvement in ISIS. 2. Some hate.
Sep 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. BREAKING: The RCMP has arrested a Burlington, Ont. man for allegedly faking his past as an ISIS executioner. globalnews.ca/news/7350363/r…2. Two sources said Chaudhry was Abu Huzayfah, the subject of the @nytimes podcast Caliphate. His FB profile has also used the name Abu Huzayfa.
1. On Aug. 12, the Pakistani Taliban's website was taken down, following a @globalnews investigation. globalnews.ca/news/7255699/w…2. That same day, using the same URL but a different suffix, it registered a new website. According to whois.is, the new server is @EpikDotCom.
Aug 31, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. Since the arrest last September of Cameron Ortis, @globalnews has been investigating allegations that his staff at the RCMP's National Intelligence Coordination Centre had long complained about his behaviour. globalnews.ca/news/7305881/r…2. Sources had been telling @globalnews that RCMP brass ignored repeated concerns raised by intelligence analysts working under Ortis, who faces a slew of charges for allegedly stealing classified police information.
Aug 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. RCMP arrested a woman north of Toronto this afternoon for attempting to join ISIS. globalnews.ca/news/7299184/w…2. “In Canada, there’s only been a handful of women who have been charged with terrorism offences,’’ said @JessMarinDavis, author of Women in Modern Terrorism.
Jul 31, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. A lot of disturbing detail about the activities of the Kingston terrorism youth was disclosed today, and photos. globalnews.ca/news/7241599/k…2. Notes found on his cell phone: "Notes about jihad and how to get to paradise... how to kill people... get captives and used them as a shield...verses in the Quran that speak of Jihad...fighting guide for Jihadists...making explosives."
Jul 29, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. From yesterday's WE testimony. 2. What WE Charity Foundation told the CRA when it applied for charity status.
Jul 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. “All those ways are good to kill Christians.” Details of a Kingston 16-year-old's preoccupation with ISIS, bombs and terrorism. globalnews.ca/news/7121770/k…2. He pleaded guilty to 4 terrorism offences and a breach.
Jul 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. An imprisoned Toronto ISIS supporter has threatened to attack again if released. globalnews.ca/news/7220901/t…2. Parole records allege Rehab Dughmosh has proven a handful for Canadian prison officials.
Jul 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Update on yesterday's @globalnews story about a national security arrest in Calgary. globalnews.ca/news/7205956/a…2. Borhot is an alleged ISIS returnee, who came back to Canada in 2014, but has only now been charged with terrorism offences, including a kidnapping.
Jul 22, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. When the prime minister announced his controversial $912-million summer student volunteer program, he said WE Charity had been contracted to administer it. 2. But government and charity officials told Global News the contract was actually with WE Charity Foundation.
Jul 8, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
1. When 2 business partners from Ontario and BC tried to board planes in Vancouver, they learned they were on the no-fly list. Today, @globalnews reveals the disturbing contents of the secret intelligence files that got them listed. globalnews.ca/news/7147226/s…2. One is a Brampton rental car company owner CSIS alleges planned a terrorist attack in #India at the behest of Pakistan's ISI intelligence service.
Jun 28, 2020 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
1. “The true believer is everywhere on the march…and whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature.” 2. "When hopes are dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them."
Jun 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. A Liberian shot to death in London, Ont. on Sunday had been investigated by Canadian officials for war crimes, documents obtained by @globalnews show. globalnews.ca/news/7098825/p…2. The shooting happened in a home owned by a woman with the surname Horrace. Federal Court files show a Liberian named Bill Chambers Horrace was the subject of war crimes allegations. Police confirmed the victim's middle name is Chambers.
Jun 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Toronto Police 2019 hate crimes report: 139 incidents, up from 137 in 2018. 2.
Jun 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. During the federal election campaign, the Liberals promised “significant financial penalties” for social media companies that didn't remove terrorist/extremist content within 24 hours. 2. Eight months later, websites that cater to incels remain a swamp of violent misogyny.
May 26, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Military personnel deployed at Ontario nursing homes have found "horrible" conditions, neglect, abuse, cockroaches, according to internal reports obtained by @GlobalNational@MercedesGlobalglobalnews.ca/news/6986338/m…2. The Ontario government has launched an investigation into the military's findings, and referred one death to the coroner, @globalnews has learned.