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If you were to ask most people around the world about my country I am pretty sure that few would respond “Canada? Oh it is a hotbed of terrorism!” This is not to say that there have not been any terrorist acts over the years – in fact many forget that the single largest act […]
Well this is a strange move by the Trudeau government. It was announced yesterday that Canada’s police, intelligence and border agencies – i.e. the RCMP, CSIS and CBSA respectively – can use “torture-tainted information” in efforts to stop a terrorist act from occurring. The allowance was not unlimited however, as these organisations cannot “disclose information […]
Remember the ‘refugee crisis’ of a few summers ago? We all were riveted by the pictures of hundreds of thousands of desperate Syrians, Iraqis and many others, risking their lives in overland journeys or even more perilous sea voyages, fleeing danger and violence in their homelands to start a new life in Europe. Some countries […]
Yes, there are some very nasty terrorists who are very good at what they do, but there are also many who are only slightly above incompetent.
We in Canada have longstanding ties to the UK. We were, after all, part of the British Empire for a over a century and by Confederation a sizeable part of our population had come from the British Isles. Even well after 1867 immigration was dominated by Irish, Welsh, Scots and English families seeking a new […]
I don’t get it. We make a big deal of terrorism these days, too big in my opinion, but we have collectively decided that terrorism is a serious threat (which it is) and that we need to deal with it. Part of our response is making sure organisations like CSIS and the RCMP have enough […]
And so the debate continues on which terrorist movement(s) poses a bigger threat in the West. Is it really Islamic State and IS-inspired extremists or is this belief a symptom of Islamophobia? Or is it the collection of hate-filled racists and white supremacists as everyone seems to be saying? And what about the rise of […]
A lot of people are very worried about the rise of the far right these days in light of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia on the weekend, at least based on the number of articles and op-ed pieces that I have come across in my news scanning as well as the number of media interviews […]
I do not suffer fools gladly. Maybe that is a personality fault and maybe I should be a nicer person in the face of sheer stupidity. But there are times where someone says something that is so utterly inane that it requires a response. The Munk Centre in Toronto held a very interesting debate in […]
I see that Ernst Zundel died the other day. For many Canadians of a certain age Mr. Zundel was famous, or rather infamous, for being, well, to be blunt, a pain in the ass. He was a Holocaust denier, a neo-Nazi and an all-around rabble-rouser. He often surrounded himself with hard-hatted supporters when he made […]