Not since the terrorist attacks of September 2001 have ordinary people been as concerned about the risk of a terrorist attack inside the United States. Since Islamic State militants began seizing swaths of Iraq and Syria and beheading Western hostages, nearly half of Americans now believe their country is less safe today than before the 9/11 attacks, according to a recent NBC poll. That's almost double the number from just one year ago. Citing the poten... More
archive: The Canada-U.S. border in the news
Tuesday 7 January 2014 10.13 GMT Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday he was confident that TransCanada Corp’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline would be eventually approved by US authorities. US President Barack Obama is set this year to decide the fate of the northern leg of the proposed project, which would carry crude from the Alberta oil sands in Canada to the US Gulf Coast. Obama is under... More
7th January 2014
By: Thomas Walkom National Affairs, Published on Fri Nov 29 2013 A Canadian is prevented from entering the U.S after border officials gain access to her confidential medical history. Meanwhile, in Ottawa, the Commons is in an uproar over revelations that U.S. spies set up shop here in 2010 — with Canadian government assistance — to snoop on international leaders attendin... More
7th January 2014
By Ian MACLEOD, Ottawa Citizen November 22, 2013 OTTAWA — Canada represents the greatest threat from terrorists trying to enter the United States, a top U.S. border agent told congressional lawmakers this week. "As far as I am aware, all recent threat assessments have pointed to the northern border as the most likely point of entry into our country for terrorists,"... More
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press November 19, 2013 OTTAWA – Smugglers were caught trying to slip dramatically more people into Canada in 2011 over the previous year at largely unguarded points along the border with the United States, says a newly declassified report. Authorities apprehended 487 people as smugglers attempted to sneak them into Canada at remote locales, up from 308 in 2010, says the binational repo... More