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Is there really any point to terrorist listings?

We need to combat terrorism on a number of fronts but it is not clear how necessary terrorist entity listings are.

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Terrorism in Canada: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Back on popular demand, this course examines the terrorist threat to Canada (and how it is being managed) with a series of short lectures and case studies.

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American Airlines ‘shoebomber’ – December 22, 2001

Do you hate taking off your shoes to get through airport security? You can thank Richard Reid for that.

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Human rights groups discuss the 2019 Global Terrorism Index

The seventh annual Global Terrorism Index covers key global trends and patterns in terrorism.

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Pan Am Flight 103 bombing – December 21, 1988

On December 21, 1998 Pan Am flight 103 came down on Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and 11 residents on the ground.

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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.