Good morning. This is Hanna Lee.
Our typically secretive national spy agency recently told CBC News it urgently needs changes to how it can obtain Canadians' electronic information for its investigations. It comes as the Liberals' much-criticized security bill has been thrown into doubt. We'll get into that below.
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With Bill C-2’s fate uncertain, spy agency argues its ability to do its job ‘eroding’
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(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
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If changes aren't made to the Liberals' security bill, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's (CSIS) investigations will suffer, the historically secretive agency told CBC News in a briefing.
Some context: The Liberal government's proposed Bill C-2 was meant to bolster border security but also included changes for CSIS and the RCMP. After months of backlash, it split the bill into two. The border proposals are now in Bill C-12, which Ottawa is looking to move quickly. But what's next for Bill C-2 is unknown.
What CSIS said: Senior CSIS officials are struggling to get court-approved information from electronic service providers, like email services, making it harder to investigate national security cases. One source said they don't believe the bill's critics read it in detail, saying the agency needs access to electronic communication to solve cases. Still, privacy and civil liberties advocates say parts of the original bill are overreaching, particularly in how they give the public safety minister broad powers.
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In scathing report, AG finds CRA call centres are slow to answer and often inaccurate
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(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
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Auditor General Karen Hogan tabled six new performance audits in the House of Commons yesterday, looking at areas including Canadian Armed Forces recruitment and housing. Among the most scathing reports was one that found chronic problems at Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)'s contact centres.
What's happening: Hogan found that agents are repeatedly failing to connect with callers in a timely manner, and when they do, they often provide inaccurate information. Her office placed 167 test calls to the agency from February to May and found that just 17 per cent of the answers given to general questions about individual taxes were accurate.
What else was covered: Ottawa has "significant gaps" in how it responds to the increasing number of dangerous cyberattacks, Hogan revealed. The agencies tasked with protecting federal IT systems don't work together properly during active attacks. She also said the military's aging living quarters have serious problems, including a lack of safe drinking water. Out of 227 high-priority repairs needed across 32 buildings, just five per cent have been completed.
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Misogynistic ideas made popular online are popping up in Canadian classrooms, survey says
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(Dmytro Tyshchenko/Shutterstock)
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Educators say sexist or misogynistic behaviours are showing up in the classroom, and that social media is mostly to blame.
What's happening: Four in five educators have witnessed such behaviours in class, according to a survey from Angus Reid and White Ribbon, a global campaign to end gender-based violence. Hateful rhetoric online is no longer confined to forums like 4chan or Reddit — it's recirculated online by algorithms and popular influencers. And for young people who've grown up with the internet, the digital and in-person worlds have become intertwined.
What one student says: Many fitness content creators promote ideas about what men should look like and they talk about women in demeaning and sexist ways, said Logan Pedwell-Rezaifard, a Grade 12 student in Toronto. “I think it almost always starts as a joke,” he said, when students start making these comments in school. But it's when other students accept the joke that things can "start to be mean."
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(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
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Downtown Toronto erupted in celebration after the Blue Jays defeated the Seattle Mariners 4-3, sending the Jays to the World Series for the first time since 1993. Fans were seen climbing on street signs and cheering. It was a similar sight in the Jays' locker room, pictured here, with players drinking and pouring cans of beer on each other. See more photos here.
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