Canada just lost a vote to gain a seat on the UN Security Council. How do Canada’s intelligence agencies meet the country’s foreign intel priorities?
Category: Podcast
Lots of terrorist cases never go to trial or, when they do, terrorists are acquitted.
In this episode, Phil looks at terrorism in Africa: who is who, what they have been up to and what the future prospects are.
Music means a lot for people. It can inspire us, make us sad and happy. But sometimes it can be tied to political and religious extremism!
In the 1950s, some religious leaders were behind a campaign to ban shorts in public. Today that would be seen as an extreme move. What is it about religious extremism that in the worst case scenario turns violent? A regular weekly look-back at some offbeat or interesting stories that have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen […]
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.
The French military claims it has killed Abdelmalek Droukdel, the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist affiliate AQIM in North Africa. How important is the death of a terrorist group’s leader?
President Trump has threatened to list Antifa as a terrorist organisation. Some say he can’t do that. What if we dropped terrorism as a criminal offence?
Phil Gurski talks with Canadian scholar Mia Bloom from Georgia State University about her decades of work looking at women, children and terrorism.
Have you ever thought of a career in security intelligence? Have a listen to what 32-year veteran Phil Gurski offers in terms of advice on how to reach your goals!