The powers the US has on Canadian soil to ‘protect’ national security’ should make us think twice about going there. At the risk of being the nostalgic old fart in the room I am going to tell a story. When I was young, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, my father and I would […]
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Deaths from terrorism are down, but…
Terrorists killed less than half as many people in 2018 than they did in 2014: some trends are still worrisome however.
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Al-Karak Attack – December 18, 2016
In 2016 on this day, Islamist extremists attacked the Jordanian city of Karak killing ten people, including a Canadian tourist.
How a grade 4 lesson that included material critical of Alberta’s oil industry prompted a Facebook debate among parents that devolved into threats and prompted the school to call in the RCMP and cancel a holiday dance.
Counter terrorism takes all kinds of forms. Sometimes the only recourse is to use lethal force.
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Hometown terrorists?
The actual place of incubation does not matter. What does is having a bevy of like-minded co-conspirators and access to relevant material, and that can happen anywhere.
On this day in 2015, four female suicide bombers were killed at a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state after one of them detonated her explosives.
The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis occurred when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café.
On December 14, 1973, the ‘Charles Martel Group’ carried out a bomb attack against the Algerian Consulate in Marseilles, killing four and wounding 23.
It is important to keep threats in perspective and not give in to irrational fear – terrorism included.