Former CSIS intelligence analyst Phil Gurski cautions against jumping to conclusions about intelligence requirements and priorities.
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What is acceptable when it comes to controversial material?
Episode 84 – MPs vote to label China’s persecution of Uighurs a genocide
It seems that everyone is calling everything terrorism these days. It is almost as if the word is in the eye (brain?) of the beholder. In this Quick Hits podcast episode, Borealis pushes back against this uncareful use. If the ins and outs of terrorism, extremism, national security and public safety are of interest to […]
RWE in Germany is bad, but how does it stack up against other forms of terrorism?
Alek Minassian found guilty of 1st-degree murder in 2018 Toronto van attack.
Episode 83 – Borealis talks with Tony McAleer a former skinhead who is trying to help others not make the same mistake he did.
Pushing back against the increased hyperbole over the terrorist reality.
Former CSIS analyst Phil Gurski looks at how intelligence failures are anything but.
Episode 82 – The story of an RCMP officer who spent time in Afghanistan in 2011-12 and wrote a book about it.