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Cameron Ortis was convicted of passing secret material in a case that shocked the Canadian intelligence communityThe former head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intelligence unit has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, months after he was found guilty of leaking state secrets.Justice Robert Maranger delivered what he said was a “a fit and just” sentence on Wednesday after a jury convicted...

Program – under scrutiny after imprisonment of Canadians in China – said to lack safeguards to protect officers overseasA controversial intelligence-gathering program run by Canada’s foreign affairs ministry operates in a “distinctly grey zone”, puts its officers at risk and breaches global diplomatic conventions, says a damning watchdog report.Canada’s global security reporting program (GSRP), a critical part of the foreign ministry’s security and intelligence...