BANFF – The federal government is toughening rules to better track home-grown terrorists abroad. Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, Steven Blaney, joined justice ministers from across the country in Banff on Thursday to unveil a bill that will give CSIS agents more power. Officials say recent court challenges and changing technology means it needs better tools to tract potential terrorists, both outside the country and when they return home. Blaney says the CSIS Act, which was created in 1984, is now outdated “While we had authority… potentially and in some cases to intercept communications once they left the country,...
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