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Quick Hits

Quick Hits 149 – Is It OK to show cartoons that offend?

What is acceptable when it comes to controversial material?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

Kyle Matthews: Is what China is doing to the Uyghurs ‘genocide’?

Episode 84 – MPs vote to label China’s persecution of Uighurs a genocide

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Quick Hits

Quick Hits 148 – Can anything be a terrorist attack?

It seems that everyone is calling everything terrorism these days. It is almost as if the word is in the eye (brain?) of the beholder. In this Quick Hits podcast episode, Borealis pushes back against this uncareful use. If the ins and outs of terrorism, extremism, national security and public safety are of interest to […]

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

Tony McAleer: What is it like to be a former neo-Nazi?

Episode 83 – Borealis talks with Tony McAleer a former skinhead who is trying to help others not make the same mistake he did.

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Quick Hits

Quick Hits 144 – Why do we have intelligence if it is not acted on?

Former CSIS analyst Phil Gurski looks at how intelligence failures are anything but.

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Perspectives

Borealis was ‘algorithmed’ out by YouTube: is this ok?

Are we ok with companies like YouTube using algorithms to decide what is ok to view and what is not on their platforms?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

William C. Malone: What was it like to be a Canadian police officer in Afghanistan?

Episode 82 – The story of an RCMP officer who spent time in Afghanistan in 2011-12 and wrote a book about it.

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

Alexandre Rodde: The terrorist threat to France

Episode 81 – Interview with French security consultant Alexandre Rodde.

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Richard Brisson: Is there anything cooler than a codebreaker?

Episode 80 – Borealis sits down with former Canadian cryptologist Richard Brisson to talk about this fascinating field.

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

Christopher Parsons: How non-government agencies give us some insight into bad things online

Episode 79 – Borealis sits down with Chris Parsons of Canada’s Citizen Lab to have a chat about the role of private sector among FBIs, CSISs and GCHQs.