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Does Ottawa City Hall need increased security – really?

While we have come to expect heightened security cordons these days we might want to make sure they are all necessary.

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US ‘national security’ concerns are adversely affecting Canadian-American relations

The powers the US has on Canadian soil to ‘protect’ national security’ should make us think twice about going there. At the risk of being the nostalgic old fart in the room I am going to tell a story. When I was young, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, my father and I would […]

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Deaths from terrorism are down, but…

Terrorists killed less than half as many people in 2018 than they did in 2014: some trends are still worrisome however.

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Al-Karak Attack – December 18, 2016

In 2016 on this day, Islamist extremists attacked the Jordanian city of Karak killing ten people, including a Canadian tourist.

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CPAC – Security Experts Discuss The ‘2019 Global Terrorism Index’

Serge Stroobants and Phil Gurski joins CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen to discuss their newest report on tracking terrorist threats, the 2019 Global Terrorism Index.

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‘The Clerkenwell Outrage’ – December 13, 1867

The Clerkenwell explosion, also known as the Clerkenwell Outrage, was a bombing in London on 13 December 1867. The Irish Republican Brotherhood exploded a bomb to try to free one of their members being held at Clerkenwell Prison.

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Too many bomb plots… – December 11 1994, 2010 and 2017

Most terrorists are not very competent and often succeed in killing only themselves.

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How NOT to have a useful dialogue on counter-terrorism

Having polar opposite views or smaller disagreements on any subject matter, including terrorism, is acceptable: ad hominem slander is not.

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The Maxime Bernier shutout is a good sign

The recent Canadian federal election bucked Western trends by rejecting populism – and that is indeed a good thing!

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Today in Terrorism: December 2, 2015 – Attack in San Bernardino, California

We usually associate marriage with the phrase “till death do us part”: this couple took the words literally.