We really need to stop debating whether the far right or Islamist extremists are more dangerous: both need to be monitored.
Tag: The Hill Times
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.
We need to combat terrorism on a number of fronts but it is not clear how necessary terrorist entity listings are.
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Hometown terrorists?
The actual place of incubation does not matter. What does is having a bevy of like-minded co-conspirators and access to relevant material, and that can happen anywhere.
Is it possible that some who are not convinced climate change is real could become extremists?
Long time hockey commentator Don Cherry has not shied away from spouting racist and anti-immigrant feelings.
Why the Canadian Wexit movement should be monitored to ensure it does not head down a violent extremist direction.
We are thankfully not inundated with terrorism in Canada. It would be nice, however, to call it what it is when it occurs.
I constantly hear the accusation that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ‘soft on terrorism’. Where are people getting this idea? How many examples do you want?