This past Tuesday, an architect of an extraordinary Toronto 18 terrorism plot to detonate truck bombs in the city’s downtown core was granted day parole.
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In the wake of a brutal killing and beheading of a French teacher in October for his ‘crime’ of showing the Muhammad cartoons, a report has come out saying French security and intelligence services failed to “appreciate the gravity of the defamatory campaign on social media against the teacher”. In other words, the French blew it. […]
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In this episode, Borealis talks to Terry Chowanec, former head of National Security at Cadillac Fairview.
Austria apparently received but failed to act on intelligence from Germany and Slovakia. Was the attack a failure?
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What about environmental terrorism?
In this episode, Phil discusses B.C. pipeline opponents facing U.S. terrorist charge over train track interference.
Even if we cannot agree on what ‘terrorism’ is, we should be able to agree on what it isn’t. In this episode, Borealis looks at some recent abuses of the word terrorism and calls on all countries to reject this usage.
Will that continue into 2021?
So, what is it like to cover terrorism for one of the world’s leading dailies? In this episode, Borealis has a chat with New York Times reporter Eric Schmitt.
We need, or so many say, to shift out resources away from the jihadis we have been focused on for 20 years. Should we? What do the data say?