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Modi’s Indian government is creating the conditions for more terrorism

The fear that an armed conflict between India and Pakistan could escalate to an exchange of nukes keep many national security officials awake at nights.

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January 12, 2015 | Terrorist attack in Xinjiang, PRC

On this day in 2015, local police shot dead what they labelled as 6 “mobsters” who had attempted to detonate explosives in Xinjiang.

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Maybe Canadians should listen to CSIS when it talks about China

CSIS rarely says a lot openly about what it knows: when it does it should be listened to.

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Threats of violence over climate change disagreement continue…

How a grade 4 lesson that included material critical of Alberta’s oil industry prompted a Facebook debate among parents that devolved into threats and prompted the school to call in the RCMP and cancel a holiday dance.

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When real terrorism leads to retaliatory genocide

Every state has a right and a duty to protect its citizens from terrorism: that right does not extend to genocide. What is a government to do when it comes to acts of political or ideological violence on its soil? The answer is not complicated. Every state has the authority, and I would add the […]

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National Security Priorities for the Canadian Government, from ISIS Fighters to Guns

Many pundits remarked that we saw neither hide nor hair of anything related to national security or foreign policy in the platforms of any of the main parties during the election campaign.

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Today in Terrorism: November 29, 2014 – Attack in Xinjiang Province, PRC

China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims is a horrible abuse of state power, but there is a real terrorist threat to deal with.

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National security priorities for the Liberal minority government

Here’s what needs to be done by the Liberal minority government on the national security/public safety front.

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Today in Terrorism: 30 October 2008, Assam, India

Bangladeshi Islamist terrorist group suspected in 13 near simultaneous bombs that kill 66 in Assam. I often wonder why countries or governments make what are known as ‘own goals’ or unforced errors. These are decisions or policies taken for what appear on the surface to be good reasons, at least by some, but which end […]

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Today in Terrorism: September 26, 2014

In all the debates about what is more important today from a terrorism angle, i.e. where we should put the greatest concentration of resources to counter it, I find there is one glaring omission. As we go back and forth on whether to put all our eggs in the jihadi basket or the far right […]