Efforts are underway around the world, including in Canada, to try to get people off the path to violent extremism
Category: Podcast
The Arab Spring was supposed to usher in an era of democracy for MENA and bleed support for Islamist terrorism. It didn’t. A chat with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross as to why not
How far can security services go in monitoring activities in their country and how do governments view threats?
A recent court case in which a young man pleaded guilty to murder in a 2020 attack raises the issue of why we need to have terrorism charges at all
Claims that Islamophobia trumps Islamist terrorism in 2022 do not have a statistical leg to stand on.
When a nation’s spy agency has a morale problem it can have widespread effects on national security: a conversation with a former Canadian intel officer.
When QAnon conspiracy theorists led by the ‘Queen of Canada’ tried to arrest Peterborough, ON police on August 13 things did not end well for them!
Canada does not seem to have a coherent, effective set of ideas on how to deal with China and the threats it poses to our interests.
Journalists often have to put themselves in danger from violent actors, including terrorists; one reporter’s story from Afghanistan.
A recent ISIS plot to attack a university in Ottawa by an Alaskan man got attention in the US but not Canada – why?