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 […]
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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 […]
Here we go again. I have lost track of how many articles I have read over the last few days all written in an accusatory tone that when you distill it comes down to a very simple claim: British intelligence should have known that Salman Abedi was a terrorist and should have stopped him before […]
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”. […]
There are few places on Earth more pitiable than Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa that is about the size of South Africa. It ranks in the bottom ten with respect to poverty, has one of the world’s largest birth rates (6 children per mother), and has a serious terrorist problem to boot. It […]
My late mother had a lot of great advice for me, much of which I followed and much of which has helped me immensely in life. One maxim that she shared with me has been ignored however. That would be the time she said it is a good idea never to engage in conversation on […]
I had the pleasure last week of hearing former Canadian Senator Hugh Segal give a talk at an event sponsored by the Canadian International Council on his book ‘Two Freedoms: Canada’s global future‘. He spoke of the famous ‘freedoms’ first put forward by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941: freedom of worship, freedom of […]
You all know what a Rorschach ink blot test is. Invented back in 1917 by a Swiss psychiatrist working on his own in an asylum, the test has been used for decades and has also been the butt of jokes for almost as long. In the movie What About Bob, hypochondriac Bill Murray relates the […]
It is really hard to come up with a definition of terrorism that all agree on. Every country seems to have its own version and while there are of course similarities there are also differences and some of these may have legal ramifications. Then there is the non-legal definition: i.e. what the average person thinks […]