Transport Canada is investigating a report of an alleged security breach at a small airport in northern Newfoundland. An employee at the St. Anthony airport reported an incident last week in which an unidentified vehicle drove on to the main apron of the airport without going through security, said Maurice Landry, a communications officer with the federal department.
"An individual then boarded a Provincial Airlines commercial flight to St. John's with what appeared to be unscreened baggage," Landry told CBC News. "According to report that we have, it appears that the individual boarded the aircraft without any opposition."
The report was made by an employee of NAV Canada, the agency that operates Canada's civil air navigation service. The employee works in the airport's air traffic control tower. Landry said if the report proves to be true, the incident breaks security regulations governing air travel, which dictate that all passengers and baggage be screened before being allowed on a commercial flight.
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Ottawa police destroy suspicious packages
Tue Jul 3, 2007
OTTAWA - Police said on Tuesday they destroyed two suspicious packages found overnight outside the Department of Defense in Ottawa.
The packages were detected late Monday and police closed off the area for several hours before declaring it safe at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, the Ottawa Police Service said in a statement. The incident is now under investigation. No further details were immediately available.
The Conservative government has come under increasing criticism for Canada's military presence in Afghanistan, where it has lost 60 soldiers since troops were deployed in 2002.
Security at foreign embassies beefed up amid Pakistan mosque crisis
7/3/2007
ISLAMABAD -- Security around the diplomatic enclave has been beefed up and foreigners alerted of possible terrorist acts in the aftermath of mosque crisis that so far has claimed over eight lives and wounded some 70 people, said police on Tuesday.
Security around foreign embassies and the diplomatic enclaves has been raised and foreign citizens alerted, police sources told KUNA.
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OTTAWA - At least 76 radioactive devices - several of which could be used in a terrorist attack - have gone missing in Canada over the last five years, newly compiled figures show.
They're stolen from cars, disappear from construction sites, fall off trucks and generally go astray at an alarming pace. The Canadian Press has compiled a database showing the rate at which these widely used devices vanish, often for days, sometimes without a trace. It chronicles dozens of thefts and mishaps involving hazardous equipment employed daily in tasks ranging from oil-well measurements to pioneering medical research. Thirty-five of these were nabbed by thieves. Three others were found in a roadside ditch, a garbage landfill and a farmer's field. And at last count dozens were still missing.
The eye-opening data emerge as anti-terrorism experts warn it's a matter of when - not if - readily available material will be used to craft a crude radioactive explosion, or dirty bomb, that could sow panic and cost billions of dollars to clean up.
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