AP NewsBreak: Canada to criminalize online terror threats
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an announcement in Richmond Hill, Canada on Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn) (The Associated Press)
Canada will introduce new anti-terror laws that will make it a crime to promote terrorism against Canadians online.
The laws will also allow anyone suspected of being involved in a terror plot to be detained without charge for up to seven days, and empower Canada's spy agency to thwart attacks directly.
A senior government official provided details to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak ahead of Friday's announcement.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}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.