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An unsolicited bid — potentially worth up to $1 billion — to provide icebreakers and multi-purpose ships for the coast guard was submitted to the Trudeau government late last month, The Canadian Press has learned.

The head of the Transportation Safety Board has suggested Canada’s rail safety regulations need to be tightened after revelations that a 10-second safety procedure could have prevented the Lac-Mégantic disaster, in which a runaway oil train derailed and exploded in the Quebec town, killing 47 people in 2013.

Britain could become increasingly vulnerable to attack from an array of novel threats including “swarm attacks”, genetic weapons, cyber-attacks and new pathogens as hostile powers and extremist groups obtain more lethal weapons, a study by a UK Ministry of Defence think tank warns.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked his public safety minister to review all government operations to see if Canada is well protected against a possible cyberattack. The review comes on the heels of the cyberattack on Ukraine's power grid last December.

Public Safety officials say they’re still trying to figure out the scope of a review into protecting critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. Speaking before a Senate committee on national defence Monday, Monik Beauregard said that the department is under a tight timeline to review its efforts and get a report to cabinet.

"The time of waving the refugees through is over,” said a source close to Germany's Interior Minister. Leaked information indicates Germany is drawing up plans to reinstate its national controls in an attempt to persuade other EU leaders to do more to solve the migrant crisis. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official visit to the White House this week should result in a new border pact that will remove a series of barriers hindering the flow of travellers and trade while improving security, says Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

Intercepted recruiting attempt shows how ISIL recruiters have been prowling social media, trying to goad citizens of Western countries into committing acts of terrorism close to home.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Ottawa promising to rein in Canada’s spies. But the bosses at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service want the Liberals to know that “robust” rules already govern their expanding operations – including their controversial, and newly legalized, disruption campaigns.

A federal project to build a flagship data centre at a Canadian Forces base has been dealt a blow after civilian planners suddenly realized there was a top-secret military communications post getting in the way.

There was a spike in murders in rural Alberta last year. Mounties say there were 65 homicides within its 112 Alberta detachment jurisdictions in 2015, compared to 36 the year before. They say it is also much higher than the 10-year average of 40 murders.

There are calls for an independent body to investigate allegations of bullying and harassment inside Canada's national police force in the wake of CBC News reports about misconduct at the RCMP-run Canadian Police College.

Conservative senators are vowing to fight legislation that would restore the citizenship of dual nationals convicted of terrorism, by stalling its passage.

The Barrett .50 caliber rifle is now the official state rifle of Tennessee. Originally designed for military use, its rounds can “penetrate light armor, down helicopters, destroy commercial aircraft, and blast through rail cars,” according to a report from the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety group.

Donald Trump wants a wall on the border — just not the northern one. He dismissed the idea of a wall with Canada during Thursday's televised debate.

Brampton city council has declared that Uber presents a "public safety concern" and is asking the ride-sharing service to halt operations pending a review of bylaws in the city northwest of Toronto.

Canada’s spy agencies have tracked 180 Canadians who are engaged with terrorist organizations abroad, while another 60 have returned home.

Two American anti-trafficking groups are expanding into Canada this year, intent on using technology to better analyze and detect a crime that is notoriously under-reported but that the RCMP calls “widespread.”

The unlawful sharing by Canada’s electronic spy agency of metadata involving Canadians’ communications went on for years before the practice was suspended in 2014, parliamentarians learned Monday.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said Sunday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's move to expedite the process for Syrian refugees seeking asylum has him worried terrorists may be embedded among the refugees who then seek to enter the United States.

The federal government wants to improve the accuracy of its no-fly list and curb “false positives” by adding addresses, birth dates and social-insurance numbers to the security data it shares with airlines.

The U.S. no-fly list, not Canada’s secret air-security list, might be what has been ensnaring Canadian youngsters, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is telling several families experiencing travel headaches.

A Transport Canada database reveals that 33 laser strikes were reported by aircraft in the National Capital Region during the past year — part of an alarming trend that places pilots and their passengers at risk.

Canada's Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Minister of Justice and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, met with their counterparts from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States during the Five Country Ministerial Meeting and Quintet of Attorneys General.

China has installed surface-to-air missiles on an island in the South China Sea, an escalation that further militarizes a region where significant tensions have already emerged between China and its neighbours.

The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, has offered condolences on behalf of the Government of Canada following the death of police officer Thierry Leroux in the community of Lac-Simon, on Saturday February 13, 2016.

The U.S. Coast Guard has often been characterized as perennially underfunded, but thanks to Congress, the service received a major boost to its acquisition accounts for fiscal year 2016.

Quebec's political leaders were expressing their condolences to the family of a police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty Saturday.

The Ontario government will unveil a strategy in June to combat human trafficking, and while it will not focus solely on indigenous women, the province acknowledges that the exploitation “overwhelmingly” affects indigenous women.

Renfrew County is upset over how the city of Ottawa seems to be downloading ambulance emergency calls onto their rural neighbours.

One of Toronto’s highest-profile police leaders – a reformer who spent most of his career trying to improve relations between police and citizens – is leaving the force.

A year before the election, Trudeau gained national attention when he mocked Canada's participation in airstrikes against ISIS. Once elected, the challenge became how to achieve a "pull out" without causing serious damage to international relationships, and to maintain some semblance of credibility domestically.

Two former employees of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of National Defence are facing charges in Halifax following a drug investigation with ties to Colombian and Mexican drug cartels.

The men and women who protected Parliament Hill against the violent incursion of gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau on Oct. 22, 2014 were honoured by the Governor General at Rideau Hall yesterday.