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News ABC NewsWoman linked to newly revealed allegation against Kavanaugh: 'Ask Brett'
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News CBCFederal parties being warned of efforts by six foreign countries to influence election: sources
Canada's intelligence services are carefully monitoring the threat of agents of the Chinese and Indian governments working with diaspora communities here to influence the upcoming federal election, according to a number of sources who have been briefed on their activities.Those sources - who spoke to CBC on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record - also said intelligence services are monitoring efforts by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela to influence the election campaign, while an integrated intelligence unit has been giving political parties bi-weekly briefings about foreign actors' activities in Canada.The government and intelligence sources said one of the ways foreign countries go about pushing their agenda in Canada is by attending nomination meetings to help select candidates favourable to their causes.These countries lean on the work of intelligence officials posing as diplomats in embassies and in consulates across the country, primarily in British Columbia and Ontario, said the sources.Top Canadian officials were warned last year that China and India could try to use their links to diaspora communities in Canada to advance their own agendas.The situation hasn't reached a level yet that would compel the critical election incident public protocol group - the government team set up to sound the alarm if it sees evidence of the October federal election being undermined - to go public.Such physical interference is far from new in the world of international espionage, and the sources stressed that Canadian intelligence agencies are closely watching the actions of foreign countries in the time left before the Oct. 21 election.Former CSIS director Ward Elcock, who also served as a deputy minister of national defence, called the tactics employed by China and India "old school" spying."It's not the new school of the Russians using the internet to interfere in the U.S. elections by moving public opinion in this direction or that direction. It's the old way of trying to recruit people, trying to secure influence and make connections," he said."Sometimes they're seeking influence. They would like to affect Canadian policies."All of the nations said to be attempting to influence the election have reasons for trying to boost their clout with a key American ally like Canada. Iran and Saudi Arabia are at daggers-drawn after Tehran was blamed for a weekend attack on Saudi oil facilities. Pakistan is in a tense standoff with India over the disputed region of Kashmir, while Nicolas Maduro is under heavy international pressure to step down as president of Venezuela.Canada has attacked Saudi Arabia's human rights record in the recent past and is part of the group of nations calling for Maduro's resignation.China has policy objective While Beijing's interest in Canada predates its more recent dispute with Ottawa over the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, the current state of tension has heightened Canadian intelligence agencies' concerns about the upcoming election, say sources.For the longest time, sources say, Chinese intelligence efforts in Canada were directed toward securing economic advantages - by pilfering technology, for example - but Meng's arrest added another objective to China's espionage aims, according to security officials.The Chinese government has been vocal about its displeasure with Canada ever since officials arrested Meng in Vancouver in December on an extradition request from the U.S. China has since arrested two Canadian men, accusing them of trying to violate national security.Canadians intelligence officials insist that their countermeasures won't lead to further deterioration in the Canada-China relationship and jeopardize the safety of the two men detained by Beijing: Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat on leave with an NGO, and businessman Michael Spavor.Outside of efforts to sway candidate nominations and elected MPs, sources speaking to CBC News said Chinese intelligence officers are also urging Chinese-Canadians to volunteer and join parties to help elect pro-China MPs.They've encouraged members of diaspora communities to write China-friendly letters to the editor and start pro-Tibet and pro-Taiwan student associations on campuses, alongside the student groups which oppose the Hong Kong democracy protests, said the sources.The Khalistan questionThe Canada-India relationship is also delicate.For decades, Indian governments have harboured a belief that Canada is soft on the movement for an independent Khalistan, a separate homeland for Sikhs.The topic was discussed when prime ministers Justin Trudeau and Narendra Modi met last year during Trudeau's trip to India in early 2018. That trip became mired in controversy when news broke that Jaspal Atwal - convicted of trying to assassinate an Indian cabinet minister in B.C. in 1986 - was invited to dine with Trudeau at a formal event hosted by the Canadian High Commissioner in Delhi.Earlier this year, Canada agreed to remove a reference to Sikh extremism from a report on terrorism after receiving pushback. The 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada had listed Sikh extremism as one of the top five extremist threats in Canada, but the text was changed to read, "extremists who support violent means to establish an independent state within India."India's former ambassador to Canada Vishnu Prakash flatly denies the claim that his country is trying to influence the federal election. "We do not have the ability nor the desire to influence the elections in any country," he said."I'm afraid the Canadian agencies are bashful about naming China alone and want to balance it by naming India, which is most unfortunate."Jessica Davis, president of Insight Threat Intelligence and a former CSIS analyst, said efforts to influence an electorate through human agents have had mixed results."Sometimes it can be very effective and states can put a lot of money behind a particular candidate and potentially get the outcome that they want," she said. "But in other instances the electorate does what its wants to do and it's very difficult to influence that."The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has said publicly that "as [in] any country with a large multicultural population, diaspora groups within Canada are subject to clandestine and deceptive manipulation by certain foreign powers.""Foreign interference in Canadian society - as a residual aspect of global or regional political and social conflicts, or divergent strategic and economic objectives - constitutes a threat to the security of Canada," says the CSIS website.Foreign espionage back in the newsA spokesperson for CSIS wouldn't comment on operations and ongoing investigations but said the agency "collects information about foreign interference as well as hostile state activities and provides advice and intelligence assessments to the Government about these events.""I would like to reassure Canadians that CSIS actively investigates and responds to all threats of foreign interference to Canada's democratic institutions - in whatever way that manifests itself - and supports the government of Canada's collective effort to respond accordingly," said John Townsend in an email to CBC.Questions about foreign espionage were pushed into the headlines late last week when news broke that a top RCMP intelligence official had been charged under Canada's national secrets law.Cameron Jay Ortis, 47, has been charged under three sections of the Security of Information Act. Most relate to preparing to share either safeguarded or operational information with a foreign entity or terrorist group in the past year.Authorities still haven't said who Ortis is alleged to have been talking to, and why.He was known for his expertise in East Asian affairs, critical infrastructure and the use of "bots" online. According to his LinkedIn profile, Ortis speaks Mandarin.A government source who was briefed on the Ortis case said Canadian officials are worried because he was known as "the China expert."
Bianca Andreescu says she never thought she'd get key to city of Mississauga, street name
US Open champion and Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu said Sunday that she never thought she would get a key to the city of Mississauga or a street named after her and said the whole experience was "crazy."
![](https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dwGjS5nSZ0cGQMw22OTdTA--~B/Zmk9c3RyaW07aD0xNjA7cHlvZmY9MDtxPTgwO3c9MzQwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cbc.ca/45c073b587a09e39b24fd09b7aeeeba0 "CBC - It's been a tough four years for Carolyn Strom.In 2016, the Prince Albert, Sask., nurse was found guilty of professional misconduct by the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association after a 2015 post she made on Facebook, criticizing the health care her grandfather received.She was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and $25,000 to cover the cost of the tribunal."It's been a roller-coaster," said Strom. "It's been really stressful. I didn't ever imagine that it would go on this long."On Tuesday morning, Strom will be at the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in Regina to fight the association's decision as well as a provincial Court of Queen's Bench decision that ruled against her last year. The professional charges stemmed from a February 2015 Facebook post in which Strom criticized the care her grandfather received while in palliative care at St. Joseph's Integrated Health Centre in the town of Macklin, about 225 kilometres west of Saskatoon."It is evident that not everyone is 'up to speed' on how to approach end of life care ... or how to help maintain an aging senior's dignity (among other things!)," read part of the Facebook post."To those who made Grandpa's last year's less than desirable, please do better next time!" Some of the nurses in the hospital felt Strom's post was a personal attack and complained. The SRNA ruled the post brought the nursing profession into disrepute and violated its social media policy.Strom refused to drop the case and held to it as a matter of principle. She was ordered to write an essay explaining what she did wrong, and refused to do so.She believes her case has had a chilling effect on other nurses speaking out across the province."My fear is that things aren't getting reported. Things aren't changing," she said. "People are afraid to to address concerns, and that's not helping anybody, especially the people with family members that are in hospital."'Don't speak out'The case generated public outrage, with many advocates speaking out on Strom's behalf."If what she said is deemed by the regulator to be somehow crossing a line, then I think we're all in pretty deep trouble," said Steven Lewis, a Saskatoon-based health-care policy analyst."They're essentially sending the message, 'Don't speak out on anything.'"Several groups, including the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitution Foundation, have received intervenor status in the case, testifying on Strom's behalf.Lewis noted that Strom's comment did not single out any particular person, and was talking about the care her grandfather received in a facility hundreds of kilometres away, not her individual workplace."If the message is that you can't criticize anything about the health-care system then, among other things, the public is deprived of an independent voice from within the profession," he said. "If we're seeing, as a blanket principle, that no person who works in health care should be able to say anything publicly in a general way about the quality of care, then I think society is in pretty big trouble."Public stainHowever, the nurses association believes it's important that Strom be held to account.In its court submission, the association said Strom should have taken any complaint through official channels and should never have talked about the situation in public."Even though she did not name names, a reasonable person who read the [Facebook] post could easily come to the conclusion that the majority of the small number of nurses who work at this institution are incompetent, lack compassion and don't care about their patients," read the submission."It is impossible for a person who works there to distance themselves from this stain."The court document also said Strom never brought her concerns up to staff at the health centre, and staff could only remember a handful of times she had ever attended the facility."Do Canadians not care about professional reputations?" it read. "Is it not reprehensible to anyone to carelessly use your professional status to harm reputations without getting all the facts or following the proper channels?"However, Strom's lawyer, Marcus Davies, said the legal challenge has far-reaching applications beyond his client's case, especially for anyone in a profession under professional regulations."There are sort of professional implications here for all of us, whether you're a lawyer, doctor or a chartered accountant," he said. "It's sort of an infringement on our rights by delegation." Davies said the Court of Queen's Bench judge erred when he wrote that a professional body's decision should trump the court."We feel that in this case, a panel of nurses does not have the expertise in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that the court has," he said. "The court should have exercised its discretion to test that."The right balanceKeir Vallance, a law professor at the University of Saskatchewan, said courts have generally shown deference when it comes to rulings from professional bodies.However, he also said the nurses association's decision could be seen as heavy-handed in this instance."The interesting question is whether the regulator found the right balance between their power to regulate their members' speech versus the right of nurses to speak their minds."He said there's a good reason associations want to monitor what members say."You don't want, as an example, nurses spreading health disinformation or undermining confidence in the health-care system without some good reason," he said."The real question here is, did this particular regulator in this particular instance go too far? Did they go beyond what the public interest requires?"")
