In the months following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, Canadian police and intelligence officials fanned out across Ontario and Quebec in search of an alleged homegrown al-Qaeda “sleeper” cell. The Ottawa-based RCMP investigation — Project A-O Canada — would eventually take officers to a small, nondescript apartment complex just a 10-minute drive from Toronto’s soaring downtown office towers. It was here, the Citizen has learned, that the Mounties, secret search warrant in hand, descended in January 2002. Full Story