We in Canada are, disturbingly to some, becoming used to this story. A Canadian travels abroad, to a native land or elsewhere, is picked up by local authorities, placed in jail (often in appalling conditions and sometimes allegedly tortured) and eventually released when the foreign government decides there is no case against him. He returns […]
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A few months ago an Austrian town put out a ‘help wanted’ sign – for a hermit. I am not making this up. The town has apparently had a hermit since the 17th century and the last one ‘retired’ in the fall of 2016 (how do you retire from being a hermit? I wonder how […]
A pattern is emerging when it comes to the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the West. People of all faiths and backgrounds denounce the attack, politicians swear that their nations will not be cowed by fear, candles and late-night vigils abound, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris is lit with the colours of the […]
Terrorists are hateful people, of that there is no doubt. What they hate varies based on the underlying ideology of the group to which they belong or through which they derive their inspiration and yet there are similarities at times. Most of them hate society or governments or policies or something else and have concluded […]
In the wake of yet another horrific – but not ‘cowardly’: the terrorists most likely knew they would die in their efforts – attack in London, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said ‘enough is enough‘! She added that there was ‘too much tolerance of extremism’ in her country and that the UK’s counter terrorism […]
Terrorism is a charged term and for good reason. The crime evokes fear and an inability of states to keep their citizens safe from outside (or inside forces). And fear of course is the goal of those who are behind this nature of attack. Even if there is little agreement on how terrorism is defined […]
No Canadian is unfamiliar with the name Karla Homolka. She was the wife, and partner in crime, of Paul Bernardo, currently serving a life sentence for the brutal sex slayings of two young women in southern Ontario in the early 1990s. Ms. Homolka only got a lesser punishment because of a controversial side deal with […]
Terrorism is a dirty, dangerous business. Terrorists are nasty people who engage in nasty acts. To thwart attacks you have to work with sources and groups whose reputations are, shall we say, unsavoury. As former CSIS Deputy Director Jack Hooper once said, however indelicately, “sometimes you have to take the ugly girl to the dance”. […]
Terrorist acts are often heinous in nature. People targeted at a club in Orlando (or Istanbul) dancing the night away. Passengers on a city bus in Tel Aviv. Young political activists on an island in Norway. When we are happily doing whatever it is that we like and we are felled by indiscriminate terror and […]
The President of the US is a very powerful person. The so-called leader of the free world has a lot of influence on all kinds of issues and has a great deal of leeway in deciding what to say and do (within the system of checks and balances of course). The current holder of office, […]