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Wednesday, November 04, 2026

Cyber Effects Unit sighted in the wild

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Recent sightings confirm that the name of the unit that conducts offensive cyber operations for the Canadian Armed Forces, including joint C...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The Earl Hope collection

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Earlier this month I became the custodian of last resort of a small collection of Japanese dictionaries that once belonged to one of Canada’...
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Monday, September 14, 2026

Scott Jones to be next CSE Chief

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Scott Jones has been appointed Chief of the Communications Security Establishment, effective 22 October 2026. Jones, who was the President ...
Saturday, July 04, 2026

Pods for the people!

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CSE is looking to enlarge its headquarters complex.  When CSE's purpose-built facility, the Edward Drake Building, was completed 12 year...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

What the overseer saw: 2025 edition

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The Intelligence Commissioner’s 2025 annual report was released on 1 May 2026. In this post I'll look at some of the key issues raised ...
Friday, April 03, 2026

A summary of the UKUSA DOE in 1979

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A recently declassified Canadian document written in 1979 provides a nice summary of the geographic breakdown of the collection and processi...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Year of the Fire Hose

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As with military spending, the Carney government has turned its budget fire hose on the Communications Security Establishment and is drenchi...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

A look at CSE's Annual Report 2024-2025

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 CSE released its Annual Report 2024-2025 on 27 June 2025.  The document is 56 pages long, so I won’t try to summarize it here, but it’s wo...