Canada's Cyber Defences Under Fire

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🔍 Canada’s Cyber Defences Under Fire | Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up
This week on Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up, Neil Bisson — retired CSIS intelligence officer and Director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge Network — examines how espionage, sabotage, and cyber warfare are converging to test the resilience of Western democracies.

🇵🇱 In Poland, authorities arrest eight individuals linked to Russian-directed sabotage — part of a wider hybrid campaign targeting NATO infrastructure and logistics routes supporting Ukraine.

🇷🇴 In Romania, security services foil a coordinated plot against a commercial courier network, exposing how Moscow’s proxy operations are expanding beyond the battlefield.

🇬🇧 In the U.K., three men are arrested under the new National Security Act for assisting Russian intelligence, reinforcing how deeply human espionage networks have penetrated Western societies.

🇳🇱 In the Netherlands, intelligence chiefs reveal they are now sharing less data with Washington — a rare signal of strained trust within the Western alliance.

🇨🇦 Back home, CSIS calls for greater precision in Canada’s new lawful-access powers under Bill C-2, while a federal audit warns of “significant gaps” in Canada’s cyber defences — raising serious questions about how prepared we are to face a full-scale digital assault.

🇦🇺 And in Australia, new proposals to expand ASIO’s interrogation powers have sparked a heated debate about the balance between national security and democratic oversight.

Each story this week underscores one message: the threats of espionage, sabotage, and cyber intrusion are not distant — they’re already here.

🎧 Chapters

0:00 – Intro
1:30 – Poland detains eight people suspected of sabotage
5:40 – Romania foils Russian-backed sabotage attempt
10:20 – UK arrests three men for spying for Russia
14:55 – Dutch intelligence services share less with the U.S.
19:30 – India never provided evidence on Sikh separatists
23:15 – Bill C-2 expands CSIS lawful-access powers
26:50 – CSIS warns new powers need “precision”
30:05 – Canada’s cyber defences under fire
32:50 – ASIO’s expanded interrogation powers
34:00 – Outro

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“Sabotage and Proxy Operations in Modern Intelligence”
👉 https://pdinstitute.uottawa.ca/PDI/Courses/National-Security/Sabotage-and-Proxy-Operations/Course.aspx?CourseCode=S0245

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