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Canada must get serious on national security…STAT!

Episode 260 – In the teeth of a crisis it is time for Canada to step up It is only six weeks since the new administration in the US and already Canada has been threatened with annexation (as the ’51st state’), expulsion from the 5 eyes intelligence alliance, and a ‘redrawing’ of the international border […]

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

How election monitoring can help national security

Episode 260 – Election observers as protectors of democracy Elections are the bedrock of democracy. Having free, fair, unfettered opportunities to choose one’s leaders is a privilege that not enough people on earth enjoy. There are, however, countries which claim to hold elections which are neither free nor fair. To try to monitor these occasions, […]

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

Does TikTok really pose a ‘national security’ threat?

Episode 254– Would the banning of TikTok enhance Western security? That TikTok is a very popular social media platform is not debatable. There are more than 1 BILLION users worldwide and 170 million in the US alone. However, the fact that TikTok is owned by a Chinese company is raising questions. What happens to your […]

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Perspectives

Protecting National Security Takes More Than Just Adding a Group to the Terrorist List

This piece first appeared in The Epoch Times Canada on December 3, 2024 In the post 9/11 period, a new tool was made available for the Canadian government in the ill-named “war on terrorism.” It is not as if we had not experienced terrorism before that fateful day (the FLQ crisis in 1970 and the […]

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Spies Like Us

National security rhymes with orange

Spies Like Us looks at what the Trump election means for Canada’s national security sphere and why is Mississauga ‘celebrating’ the death of the Hamas leader?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

National security depends critically on international intelligence sharing

Countries which get more intelligence than they give cannot afford to abandon sharing with international partners

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Three decades in national security: what was it like?

Working in national security is a very cool business. It is worth listening to the experiences of someone who did this for 30 years in Canada

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Canada is immigrant friendly, but does it consider the national security angle?

Immigration is important to Canada and has always been. But does the federal government pay enough attention to national security when considering immigrants?

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Perspectives

Again, the Liberals show they don’t really understand national security

Yes, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps needed to be listed as a terrorist entity — years ago. What took the Liberals so long?

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Perspectives

Foreign interference inquiry testimony yet more proof Ottawa doesn’t take national security seriously

The more we learn about the volume of intelligence ignored on PRC election interference in Canada, the more worried we should be