The conflict in Yemen is complicated: war and terrorism are killing thousands and no one seems to care.
Category: Perspectives
On December 4, 1971 the Ulster Volunteer Force exploded a bomb at a bar called McGurk’s in a Catholic neighbourhood of Belfast, killing 15 and wounding 17.
On this day in 1975, six armed men boarded a train at the Dutch town of Assen and seized the passengers as hostages.
The recent Canadian federal election bucked Western trends by rejecting populism – and that is indeed a good thing!
We usually associate marriage with the phrase “till death do us part”: this couple took the words literally.
Recent attacks by a jihadi group in Mozambique demonstrate that this brand of terrorism is not going away: quite the opposite.
The simple truth is that there are no simple answers on what to do with terrorists: let’s stop pretending there are.
The predecessor to the Al Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia was responsible for several attacks and demonstrated why military invasions are bad ideas.
Even if terrorist attacks are rare in Canada, some Canadian extremists do elect to strike abroad. What should we do with them?
China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims is a horrible abuse of state power, but there is a real terrorist threat to deal with.