Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has outlined instructions for Canada's spy service on how to share information with foreign agencies even when there is a "substantial risk" it will lead to torture, a newly released document shows.

Three Arab-Canadian men who are suing the federal government for being complicit in their detention and torture in Syria and Egypt have lost a bid at the Supreme Court to gain greater access to some of the government's alleged evidence against them.

Dustin Paxton's victim was beaten, starved and mutilated, and there's an effort underway to have people like Paxton be charged with a more serious offence : torture.