Ex-Mountie pleads not guilty to acting on behalf of China as foreign influence trial begins

A man found not criminally responsible on three counts of attempted murder for a March 2016 knife attack at a Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre in Toronto has been granted a three-week travel pass for Saudi Arabia and Somalia, despite the fact that he “continues to pose a significant threat to public safety.” Ayanle Hassan Ali, who is Muslim, plans to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca with his father and meet a potential bride his dad found for him in Somalia. He wants to travel abroad “to facilitate a meeting with a woman as his father has been working on arranging a possible marriage...