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May 1, 1995 | Assassination of Sri Lankan President

On this day in 1995, The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) assassinated Sri Lankaa President Premadasa during a May Day event and killed 17 others.

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April 30, 2005 | Suicide bombings in Cairo

A man and two women detonated suicide bombs near a bus station in Cairo, Egypt, wounding ten people in total.

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Terrorism, incarceration and recidivism: What do we know?

Perceived recidivism rates for incarcerated terrorists do not seem to be as high as most people believe but the situation is much more complicated than that.

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April 29, 1995 | Shootdown of military plane in Sri Lanka

The LTTE used an SA-7 to shoot down two Sri Lankan Air Force planes in Jaffna in April 1995, killing all 95 people on board.

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April 28, 2001 | Armed attack in Macedonia

Albanian terrorists massacred eight Macedonian forces in the north of the country in April 2001 in an effort to fold ethnic Albanian areas into Albania.

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Halting disinformation in a time of pandemic: the need to tread very carefully

The federal government is considering making it an offence to knowingly spread misinformation that could harm people in this time of COVID-19.

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April 27 2019 | California Synagogue shootings

On this day in 2019, a 20-year old white supremacist shot and killed a woman and wounded 3 others in a California synagogue.

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April 26, 2016 | Drownings by ISIS

On this day in 2016, ISIS animals put seven men in a cage and lowered it into the water where they all died by drowning.

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Nova Scotia shooting – In defence of the RCMP

While we have the right to criticise our agencies, we also have to recognise the complexity of what they do – this applies to the RCMP in Nova Scotia last weekend.

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April 25, 2016 | Execution of Canadian Hostages in Philippines

On this day in 2016, Abu Sayyaf terrorists beheaded one Canadian and another later from a group of hostages they had seized in the southern Philippines.