On this day in 2016, Mohamed Barry went into the Nazareth Restaurant & Deli and proceeded to stab four people with a machete.
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Can we talk with terrorists?
Sometimes we have to do things we really would rather not: negotiating with terrorists may be one of them.
Many see counter terrorism as a CSIS or RCMP role, but average Canadians also have a part to play.
On this day in 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette walked into a mosque in Quebec City on a Sunday evening and shot dead six worshipers, wounding several more.
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QUICK HITS 15 – The Base
The arrest of Canadian Patrik Mathews, a member of The Base, in conjunction with a terrorist plot demonstrates that there are almost always signs of violent radicalisation. We should not ignore them.
Freedom of speech is very important but it is equally important to not give oxygen to lies. This piece appeared in The Hill Times on January 20, 2020 WE LIVE IN an amazingly fortunate country, don’t we? Sure, there are outstanding issues and problems we must address but when we look at things from 37,000 […]
Everyone is presumed innocent until found guilty, even alleged terrorists or those caught up in a terrorist investigation, but do we have to pay for other nations’ mistakes?
There are all kinds of hate groups out there that advocate violence: how much of a threat do they really pose?
There are a lot of tools in the anti-terrorism kit but we need to evaluate them all and perhaps get rid of some. This piece appeared in The Hill Times on January 02, 2020. You have to pity Adam Ahmad, the 10-year old boy who finds himself on Canada’s ‘no-fly list’. This counter terrorism tool, more informally […]
CSIS rarely says a lot openly about what it knows: when it does it should be listened to.