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Recent Attacks in Canada Highlight Need for More Openness on National Security

While frustrating, we have to allow time for investigations to establish motive for attacks before jumping to conclusions: why don’t politicians get this?

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Perspectives This week in terrorism

The Week in Terrorism: February 26-March 3, 2024

A slow week in terrorism with only six attacks and few mass casualty ones. Again, not a single far right attack anywhere, a trend that is continuing.

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Is there a problem with policing in Canada?

Policing in the West has taken quite a few hits of late. Does it need rethinking? Maybe we should hear what a former police commissioner has to say

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How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People

What do we do with a UN refugee agency that appears to be in cahoots with a jihadi organisation?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

What is Hizb-ut-Tahrir and why did the UK list it as a terrorist organisation?

You would think that a government would list terrorist groups for specific reasons (prosecution among them). Is it as easy as all that?

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Perspectives This week in terrorism

The Week in Terrorism: February 19-25, 2024

More than 70 people killed in terrorist attacks this week, the vast majority at the hands of jihadis: again not one single right wing attack anywhere

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Afghanistan under the Taliban (again!): what are our concerns?

Afghanistan is now again under the medieval reign of the Taliban: what does this mean for the country and the region?

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Emergencies Act Fallout: Rule of Law Must Mean Something in Canada

Governments in liberal, secular democracies cannot run roughshod over fundamental rights and the law, even where national security is involved.

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The world is ignoring the threat of Hindu extremism

Hindu extremism is a growing problem in India: do we have to have to worry about attacks outside South Asia?

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This week in terrorism

The Week in Terrorism: February 12-18, 2024

Jihadis dominated the global terrorist scene once again, although a cult-like group in DRC did carry out two attacks. RWE? Zero.