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Friday, January 30, 2015

Canada announces new anti-terror law Friday Jan 30,2015

Canada announced a new anti-terror law that will allow anyone suspected of being involved in a terror plot to be detained without charge for up to seven days.

The law announced Friday Jan 30,2015 will also make it a crime for people to call for a terrorist attack, even if they don’t make a specific threat, and empower Canada’s spy agency to thwart attacks directly in a significant expansion of their powers.

Work on the law began in October after a gunman killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament. The attack in Ottawa came two days after a man, said to be inspired by the Islamic State group, ran over two soldiers in a parking lot in Quebec, killing one and injuring the other before being shot to death.

The new law still has to be passed in Parliament but Harper’s Conservative government has a majority of the seats so passage is all but ensured.

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