In this episode, Phil looks at terrorism in Africa: who is who, what they have been up to and what the future prospects are.
Category: Canadian Intelligence Eh!
What is happening in the world of terrorism, as seen through the eyes of a former intelligence analyst.
In this podcast, retired Canadian intelligence analyst Phil Gurski discusses the subject of terrorism: what it is (and isn’t), trends, developments and more. Author of six books on terrorism, Phil is not shy to wade into controversial matters and provide his perspective honed from more than three decades in intelligence.
Imagine if your child ended up leaving home to join a terrorist group and died fighting for ISIS. Christianne Boudreau, joins Borealis to talk about what she went through and how she is trying to help parents.
Phil Gurski talks with Canadian scholar Mia Bloom from Georgia State University about her decades of work looking at women, children and terrorism.
In this podcast, investigative journalist Naama Kates and intelligence analyst Phil Gurski dive deep inside the incel community.
In this podcast, national security analyst Shawn MacWha and intelligence analyst Phil Gurski simulate a nuclear war between Russia and China.
Andrew Griffith, former Director General of Citizenship and Multiculturalism discuss if immigration pose a actual national security threat.
Listen to my debate with Dimitri Lascaris, currently running for leader of the Green Party of Canada, on all things terrorism and national security.
The series gives us hope that in the not too distant future mass violence is behind us. But is it? There is an awful lot of violence in Star Trek – is it terrorism on occasion?
Ward Elcock was the Director of CSIS from 1994 to 2004 and saw the organisation through 9/11 and its aftermath. He joins Borealis to reflect on his years in security intelligence and where we are going next.
My chat with Michael Petrou on Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War – were they ‘foreign fighters’ and did they pose a security threat back home?