A court ruling said CSIS failed to disclose its reliance on information that was likely collected illegally in support of warrants to probe extremism.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service employees see the spadework needed to obtain a judicial warrant as ``a necessary evil'' that detracts from more valuable activities, says an independent review that calls for a cultural shift inside the spy agency.

A Canadian Sikh organization said there was reason to be skeptical of the allegations.

``The author of the CSIS report also was aware that the arrest of Ms. Meng would be a high-profile political event, saying 'the arrest is likely to send shockwaves around the world,' '' the defence document says.

The classification of gender-based violence as violent extremism is part of the new terminology that CSIS said it would now use.

CSIS expresses particular concern about defining personal information in the law in an overly broad way, potentially making the intelligence service's job more difficult.

Canada’s research on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is a 'valuable target' for foreign hackers, say intelligence agencies

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the initiative -- made possible by sweeping security legislation passed last year -- will enable the agency to crunch large volumes of information and detect previously unseen patterns.

David Lametti signed the document — a first in Canada’s history — to prevent the disclosure of information related to a CSIS surveillance operation on the Chinese embassy in Ottawa.

He says that if he is deported to Israel he will be outed as a spy and eventually killed for his work.