Tag: National Security

Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Is it time to revisit the mental illness/terrorism nexus?

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date February 9, 2022
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Episode 126 – Research has shown that most terrorists are as ‘normal’ as you or me. But are they?

Tags An Intelligent Look at Terrorism, bombing, Mental Illness, National Security, Phil Gurski, Podcast

Canadian Intelligence Eh!

What should Canada do with Saudi Arabia?

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date February 2, 2022
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Episode 125 – Three years ago a Saudi ‘Tiger Team’ tried to assassinate a high-ranking former intel official now living in Canada. What should Canada do now? Borealis is rejoined by former CSIS agent Al Treddenick to discuss this.

Tags An Intelligent Look at Terrorism, National Security, Podcast, Saudi Arabia, terrorism

Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Policing a capital city during a major demonstration

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date February 1, 2022
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Episode 124 – As Ottawa is still dealing with an anti-vaccine mandate trucking convoy, Borealis talks to former Ottawa Chief of Police Charles Bordeleau.

Tags COVID-19, National Security, Ottawa, Podcast

Perspectives

Terrorism is a matter of public safety, not national security

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date January 7, 2022
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Federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for justice and public safety meeting in BC in 2020 (Photo: Province of British Columbia on flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

There are national security and public safety threats: terrorism is most usually one of the latter, not the former.

Tags counter-terrorism, National Security, Perspectives, Public Safety, terrorism

Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Shane Healey – Killing to prevent terrorism: Counter terrorism at the ‘kinetic’ coalface

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date January 5, 2022
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Episode 120 – Counter terrorism at the ‘kinetic’ coalface

Tags Afghanistan, an end to the war on terrorism, An Intelligent Look at Terrorism, Canada, Iraq, National Security, Phil Gurski, Toronto 18

Quick Hits

ISIS terrorists should be tried and punished over there, not over here

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date January 2, 2022
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Quick Hits 184 – A curious phenomenon has arisen of late: Westerners advocating that Canada and other nations bring back ISIS terrorists.

Tags Canada, foreign fighters, National Security, Quick Hits

Perspectives

What if right-wing terrorism is not as bad as many think it is?

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date December 31, 2021
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Members of the alt-right movement in the United States at the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia (Photo: By Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Many see terrorism from the so-called ‘far right’ as the single greatest threat to our societies. Is this feeling accurate? What if those who think so are wrong?