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Season 3 Episode 20 – It’s Canada and we have the ‘Eh’ team of terrorism! What happens when three ex-spies talk about national security? You get in-depth, insider views of what’s happening including why two morons shoot up an empty diplomatic presence at o-dark-hundred, why Canada is level-headed when it comes to threat and an […]
Season 3 Episode 19 – Peace, what is it good for? In this week’s bar chat (ok, the bar is virtual but the beer is real and Al is enjoying a “Juicy Ass” – please don’t pursue why!) the lads look at various aspects of the war (“Don’t mention the war” – classic John Cleese […]
Episode 318 – What do Iranian Canadians think about the current situation in their homeland? Wow, what a couple of days! Israeli and US airstrikes are continuing in Iran and the country’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamene’i, is dead. Iran is engaged in counterstrikes in the region and many are worried about where this will all […]
Episode 317 – Why is the Sahel region of Africa so vulnerable to terrorism? Not many people, I wager, follow events in Africa, let alone the Sahel, the band that spreads from Mauritania in the west to Sudan in the east. And yet this region is rapidly becoming terrorism central globally as groups aligned with […]
Episode 316 – Is Sikh terrorism a thing of the past and are Canadian Sikhs now subject to Indian state violence? At one point in the not too distant past Sikh Canadians were tarred with the terrorism brush. After all, the bombing of an Air India flight in 1985 in which 329 people – mostly […]
Season 3 Episode 18 – Help, I’m being repressed! This week the boys weigh in on a new report on transnational repression (TNR) in Canada, co-authored by one of us (hint: not Neil and not Al), why it is so hard to use intelligence in court cases, and ask whether the Hells Angels owned a […]
Season 3 Episode 17 – Extracurricular activities with a side of explosives In yet another chat in a virtual bar, the boys look into why a couple of Western University students were arrested on possible national security charges, why Canadians make great targets for Cuban spies, and why hiding behind a snowman is a great […]
Episode 313 – Why can we not define hate speech more succinctly? As Taylor Swift – and no I am NOT a ‘Swiftie’ – once sang “Haters gotta hate”. Hate crimes certainly appear to be on the rise in many parts of the Western world and has a lot of people worried. Unfortunately, the definition […]
Season 3 Episode 16 – Will the ‘Boeggy’ man scare off foreign spies? The boys in the virtual bar celebrate Friday with a variety of real beers and have reason to cheer! Canada’s Public Safety Minister Gary “the recuser” Anandasangaree finally announces a head of the soon-to-be-created Foreign Influence Transparency Registry! It may have been […]
Spies Like Us Season 3 Episode 15 – What was it like to be a spy? After a short hiatus, the boys are back…and they have a guest! Andrew Kirsch is a former CSIS intelligence officer, an author and willing to talk to us! This is so cool, more people to listen to! Kirsch Group […]