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How believable are claims of success against terrorism?

Governments make truly impressive claims in their counterterrorism campaigns, but can these numbers be trusted?

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How long can terrorist threats last?

Terrorists seem to have long memories: they can target people that piss them off for an extended period of time

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Why in heaven’s name should Canada repatriate those who left us to join ISIS?

A court ruling that tries to force the Canadian government to repatriate those who joined ISIS of their own free will is daft

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Is Al Shabaab really on the way out?

Are government claims that terrorist groups are on the verge of defeat credible or is this just wishful thinking?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Perspectives

What ever happened to Sikh terrorism?

Sikh extremists in Canada carried out the largest act of aviation terrorism prior to 9/11 in 1985: do they still pose a threat?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Pakistan and (counter) terrorism? It’s complicated

Pakistan is faced with a serious Islamist terrorist threat and accusations that it supports other terrorists: what gives?

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Canadian courts need to change how they consider terrorism

Canadian courts have an unfortunate tendency to not take terrorism seriously and treat it appropriately. How can we change this?

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We do not benefit from the whitewashing of terrorism

Looking back at a terrorist plot 15 years later only to force it through the filter of ‘racism’ is just plain wrong and unhelpful.

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When it come to Islamophobia who is actually behind it?

Canada appoints an Islamophobia ‘czar’, convinced that it is all too ‘prevalent’. But who are the real Islamophobes? Spoiler alert: not who you may think.

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How to prevent real terrorism threats in Canada

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, so they say. Does this describe the UK’s Prevent counter terrorism programme?