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When marijuana use becomes legal in Canada on October 17, employers will have to ensure their workplaces are safe from preventable incidents. The Professional Security Knowledge Network, which offers online training for the security and investigation sector, has prepared a course to help employers meet their responsibilities.

A month after arriving in Mali, Canadian forces members will carry out medical evacuations 24 hours a day, beginning Wednesday. The Trudeau government promised 250  personnel, three transport helicopters, and five escort helicopters to the mission, and is considering sending about 20 civilian police officers as well.

A new Electronic Devices Privacy Handbook released by the BC Civil Liberties Association and the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) will help travellers understand their data privacy rights at border crossings, offers best practices for securing digital devices, and what to do if you've been searched.

The Canadian government is clearly unwilling or unable to stop the flow of asylum seekers entering Canada illegally from the United States. This video report follows the steps taken when asylum seekers cross the border into Canada.

The Trump administration's point man on trade called Canada a national security threat to the United States in the face of questions over steep tariffs on Canadian steel, and the American president doubled down on the decision in a campaign-style speech.

The U.S. Special Operations Command asked for a technologically superior electric autonomous land vehicle, and SOFTWERX and Nikola Powersports are answering that call with an innovative UTV called the Reckless.

When marijuana becomes legal in Canada on October 17, at least 14 RCMP marijuana sniffing dogs across the country will be out of work. The redundant animals must be replaced by new dogs whose training does not include marijuana, at a cost of $5000 each.

Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the Trudeau government will consider the increasing calls for a ban on handguns, an idea endorsed by Toronto council after a mass shooting that shook Canada’s largest city this week.

Until 2012, 75 per cent of illegal firearms in Canada came from the United States but by 2017, about half came from domestic sources, according to Toronto police. Legal gun owners make big profit by reselling their weapons illegally.

A man was arrested Monday on Parliament Hill during the Changing of the Guard ceremony. No one was injured and officials said early reports he was armed with a knife were incorrect. A small knife had been discovered near the scene of the incident.

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has identified the 29-year-old man being investigated in connection with a deadly mass shooting on 22 July in Toronto as Faisal Hussain. Toronto police say the suspect shot 15 people and exchanged gunfire with police before dying of a gunshot wound.

Canada’s participation in ballistic missile defence has recently returned to the forefront. A recent survey of leading experts on defence policy and ballistic missile defence shows expert consensus on the value of cooperating with the United States on BMD to protect North America.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service does not have the legal authority to spy outside of Canada unless national security is at stake, a Federal Court judge has ruled.

A newly declassified report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says about a quarter of Canadians engaged in terrorist activity have already committed crimes.

BC Wildfire Service is busy responding to a total of five fires outside West Kelowna. The Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Centre has issued an evacuation order for properties north of the fire. Residents on evacuation order should leave their properties immediately.

Bill Blair was named as Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction in a cabinet shuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday.

Canadian Rangers rescued a fisherman from the Hudson Bay community of Peawanuck after his boat engine failed in worsening weather. The seven hour rescue involved four Rangers and two freighter canoes.

The Chinese government is working to create a techno-authoritarian state powered by artificial intelligence and facial recognition to track and monitor its 1.4 billion citizens.

Last fall, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) said more time was needed to train officers to spot drug-impaired drivers.   Now the CACP says it probably won't reach the goal of training 2,000 officers when marijuana becomes legal this year.

The Trudeau government plans to send up to 20 police officers to Mali, adding to the commitment of eight helicopters and 250 armed forces members for the next 12 months.

British investigators were urgently trying to establish on Thursday how a couple came into contact with the same type of Soviet-era chemical weapon used in an attack against a former Russian spy and his daughter.

Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper have been identified as the three people found dead after they went missing at Shannon Falls on Tuesday. A young woman was trying to swim near the top of the 335-metre waterfall where she slipped and fell. Her boyfriend and another friend went in after her.

There are reports heavily armed American officers have boarded Canadian fishing boats near Machias Seal Island between New Brunswick and Maine, apparently looking for illegal immigrants. Canada considers the area sovereign territory but the United States disputes that claim.

The Israel Defense Force launched a campaign to warn its soldiers about Hamas hackers who have been trying to install spyware on their phones via a World Cup app and two online dating sites. About 100 soldiers were duped into doing downloading the spyware, the IDF said, though it insisted no damage had been done to Israeli security.

A former Judge Advocate General says the government should be more open about its policy about targeting Canadians serving in military units abroad. Blaise Cathcart was speaking about reports that airstrikes in Syria and Iraq had aimed at Canadians fighting for terrorist groups.

As thousands of police officers search across France for a convict who escaped prison in a commando-style helicopter raid Sunday, investigators are piecing together how the precisely coordinated, astonishingly brazen caper came together — probably through months of high-tech spy work and secret plans.

After 10 days trapped in a flooded cave complex in northern Thailand, and after an enormous search effort that had transfixed Thailand, the missing 12 boys and their soccer coach had finally been found in Tham Luang Cave.

A Geneva-based group, Global Detention Project, says Canada has a culture of secrecy around its immigration detention system and its practice of detaining vulnerable groups. Public pressure has forced the government to public pressure has prompted Ottawa to decrease the number of long-term detainees and reduce the use of maximum-security jails.

About 100 soldiers and an RAF Chinook helicopter have been deployed to help battle a vast moorland wildfire that has raged for days in Greater Manchester.

Six people were arrested and large quantities of drugs seized in a major drug bust in three Ottawa locations. Among the drugs seized were 100,000 pills containing methamphetamine and 13 kilograms of cannabis, as well as cocaine, MDA, oxycodone and crack.

Lynn Lake has called for a voluntary evacuation affecting residents with chronic health conditions or breathing problems after a wildfire caused by a lightning strike moved to within 15 kilometres of the town.

Unlike the United Kingdom, which revokes the citizenship of people who go abroad to work with terrorist organizations, Canada facilitates the return of jihadists. There are reports that police expect large numbers of fighters to return to Canada in the months ahead.

Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert over the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, expelling them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under a blistering sun.

U.S. border agents report the arrest of a member of the violent Central American '18th Street Gang' after illegally entering the country from Canada. Both the Mexican gang member and his Peruvian companion had previously been arrested in the United States.