On this day in 2006, Canadian police arrested 18 people in what was a plot to detonate three fertiliser bombs around Toronto.
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Privacy and our spy agencies
Spies act in the shadows for obvious reasons: does this mean they are constrained by privacy issues?
Everyone is free to express their opinion on terrorism but only a former (or current) counter terrorism practitioner can weigh in on investigations.
It is simply too early to label incel violence ‘terrorism’ and we have other legal tools to deal with this hateful, misogynist phenomenon.
It is still a debatable issue whether ‘incels’ are terrorists or just occasionally violent people, as is what is the best way to detect and stop them.
Andrew Griffith, former Director General of Citizenship and Multiculturalism discuss if immigration pose a actual national security threat.
Terrorists like to have large audiences for their acts – what if we keep ‘social distancing’?
How can Western democratic states use surveillance technology to monitor who has COVID-19 and still respect privacy laws?
The federal government is considering making it an offence to knowingly spread misinformation that could harm people in this time of COVID-19.
While we have the right to criticise our agencies, we also have to recognise the complexity of what they do – this applies to the RCMP in Nova Scotia last weekend.