In Ottawa this week, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Dan Rogers, stepped into the spotlight to announce that yes — the chilly North is not immune to warmongering regime-smackdowns after all. CSIS claimed it had intercepted and disrupted potentially lethal threats emanating from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other Iranian proxies against individuals in Canada. Who knew? Apparently Iran still does assassination-by-proxy, and Canada still spies.
Rogers revealed that the agency “had to reprioritize operations” to counter Iranian intelligence services targeting critics on Canadian soil. He also noted that Russian front-companies were trying to mine Canadian tech secrets, and Chinese agents were lurking around Arctic minerals.
“In more than one case, this involved detecting, investigating, and disrupting potentially lethal threats against individuals in Canada,” he said.
What’s deliciously ironic here: while Western media often focus on Hollywood villains and woke culture trivia, Canada’s spy agency is quietly doing the heavy lifting of real geopolitics. While the DNC debates whether to wear shoes at the office, the Canadians are reminding us that danger still exists, and remote work won’t stop a bad guy.
It’s a story that underlines a broader truth: global threats don’t pause for Zoom fatigue or diversity weeks. They don’t care if you’ve reordered your standing-desk or renamed your meeting rooms. That pesky thing called reality still bites—in this case, Tehran decided it didn’t care about maple syrup-and-ski-trails niceties anymore.
Faith and freedom-loving folks might notice that while activists campaign to rename bridges and dismantle statues, real-life agents are being disrupted by spies, not pink-pom-poms and trigger warnings. The contrast is stark: the woke culture wars rage in coffee houses, while the shadow war persists in intelligence corridors.
Punchline: Next time you hear someone tell you the only threat anymore is “hate speech,” remind them: somewhere behind a maple tree in Ottawa, a spy is quietly applauding his Canadian-moose mug after he just prevented another regime’s “we’re-just-friends” murder invite. Stay alert. And maybe keep the Zoom background on “castle ramparts.”
