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Is coastal West Africa facing an increased jihadi threat?

Why are coastal West African nations facing a growing jihadi threat and how serious could this become?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Perspectives

How can academe help us to understand terrorism?

How do academics and practitioners in countering terrorism get along and what are the challenges?

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Spying is not for amateurs

A decision to collect intelligence from human sources abroad on security matters needs to be carefully thought out and not done flippantly

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Perspectives

What is it like to write about terrorism for the news cycle?

Writing about terrorism cannot be easy given the inherent danger in going to conflict zones: so why does a Canadian journalist do it?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

What is it like to be a national security advisor?

Busy people need help understanding the torrent of information sent to them, including intelligence. That is where a national security advisor comes in.

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

What is happening in France vis-a-vis terrorism?

Of all the Western nations France seems to suffer the highest level of terrorist attacks. Why is this?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

What are the repercussions of the Hamas attack and Israel’s response?

In the aftermath of the heinous attack by Hamas in Israel what next? A very good question with few answers

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Is ISIS the new ‘role model’ for Islamist terrorism?

The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel is bad enough: what does it mean that some of the attackers unfurled an ISIS flag on Israeli territory?

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Canada’s security service is the most over-regulated one in the Western world

Running an intelligence agency is not an average job one would imagine: what was it like to do so in Canada in the post Cold War/9/11 era?

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Yes there is something called left-wing terrorism – get it right!

Left-wing terrorism is on the rise in many countries but no one seems to want to talk about it – why not?