Two recent stories about Chinese and Russian activities in Canada raise real questions about how concerned our government is about national security. Have a listen!
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Independence movements sometimes spawn violent fringes: is Scotland headed in that direction?
We need to combat terrorism on a number of fronts but it is not clear how necessary terrorist entity listings are.
While we have come to expect heightened security cordons these days we might want to make sure they are all necessary.
The powers the US has on Canadian soil to ‘protect’ national security’ should make us think twice about going there. At the risk of being the nostalgic old fart in the room I am going to tell a story. When I was young, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, my father and I would […]
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Deaths from terrorism are down, but…
Terrorists killed less than half as many people in 2018 than they did in 2014: some trends are still worrisome however.
How a grade 4 lesson that included material critical of Alberta’s oil industry prompted a Facebook debate among parents that devolved into threats and prompted the school to call in the RCMP and cancel a holiday dance.
Serge Stroobants and Phil Gurski joins CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen to discuss their newest report on tracking terrorist threats, the 2019 Global Terrorism Index.
Many pundits remarked that we saw neither hide nor hair of anything related to national security or foreign policy in the platforms of any of the main parties during the election campaign.
How far do we expect or allow national security agencies to go in stopping violent extremism?