Woke and cancel culture are gaining ground on many fronts and may in fact be having a serious effect on our ability to ensure national security and public safety.
Category: Quick Hits
The US has long listed Cuba as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’. Why? Is there any usefulness of such a designation?
Canadian authorities elected to extradite an ISIS recruiter in Edmonton to the US where he is given a stiff sentence: why wasn’t he tried here?
Too many nations use the spectre of ‘colonialism’ to cover up their ineptitude in many spheres, including countering jihadi terrorism
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.
A recent ISIS plot to attack a university in Ottawa by an Alaskan man got attention in the US but not Canada – why?
The belief that we should never talk to terrorists under any circumstances gets dicey when we are talking about saving people from starvation.
A recent US court decision to sentence a Canadian ISIS jihadi to life behind bars highlights the differences in terrorism cases on either side of the 49th parallel.
There are many social ills we need to deal with urgently, including terrorism. It’s too bad some of us cannot seem to call it what it is