Terrorism Archive
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Critics fear the government’s national security bill puts Canadians in the crosshairs
Posted on 14.01.2018 | No CommentsBill C-59 has been touted as the Liberal government's improved version of the Harper government's national security legislation, Bill C-51 -
Terrorism to take centre stage when Trudeau meets with NATO, G7 counterparts
Posted on 23.05.2017 | No CommentsThe deadly bombing in Manchester has thrust the familiar scourge of terrorism back onto the world stage as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to leave for Europe for meetings with NATO and G7 counterparts. -
Influential, experienced and erratic: Trump picks retired general to be national security adviser
Posted on 18.11.2016 | No CommentsMichael Flynn helped dismantle insurgent networks in Afghanistan and Iraq but then surprised - and sometimes dismayed - colleagues by joining Trump’s political insurgency -
RCMP tracked 89 indigenous activists considered ‘threats’ for participating in protests
Posted on 13.11.2016 | No Comments'Innocent advocates were investigated and catalogued based on little more than a perceived potential threat that their expression might pose to the state' -
Spies in new glass houses: Ottawa’s electronic espionage agency budget blows past CSIS, tops $600 million
Posted on 10.11.2016 | No CommentsThe Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, is to receive $605.6 million, according to supplementary estimates tabled in Parliament. That’s $22 million more than originally planned -
Father of New York bombing suspect says he told police in 2014 he suspected son may be a terrorist
Posted on 21.09.2016 | No CommentsMohammad Rahami said the FBI told him his son was clean: 'But they check almost two months, they say, ‘He’s OK, he’s clean, he’s not a terrorist.’ I say OK.' -
Donald Trump Made Case Against Terrorism
Posted on 19.09.2016 | No CommentsThis weekend’s spate of radical Islamic terrorism-driven bombings and a stabbing spree underscore one presidential candidate’s perpetual warning that America is under attack. He has consistently issued a call to arms against radical islamic terrori... -
Minnesota mall stabbing called ‘potential act of terrorism,’ first ever known to be by Somali on U.S. soil
Posted on 19.09.2016 | No CommentsThe motive of Saturday's attack is still unclear, but FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Rick Thornton has said it is being investigated as a 'potential act of terrorism' -
With the caliphate in peril, Western officials bracing for ISIL’s ‘hardened killers’ to take mayhem to Europe
Posted on 17.09.2016 | No CommentsEven top Islamic State leaders acknowledge the inevitable collapse of their declared caliphate, and they appear to be shifting to a new strategy that threatens Europe on multiple fronts -
President Obama’s 9/11 memorial remarks include a veiled criticism of Donald Trump
Posted on 11.09.2016 | No CommentsObama described an America made up of 'people drawn from every corner of the world...We know that our diversity, our patchwork heritage is not a weakness' -
Tory public safety critic warns Liberals not to mess with spy agency’s new power to disrupt threats
Posted on 03.09.2016 | No Comments'In this environment of radicalized people, this is exactly why the disruption power is so important,' Conservative MP Erin O'toole said -
Convicted terror twin Ashton Larmond devised plan to sneak out of Canada, join ISIS
Posted on 31.08.2016 | No CommentsOne of the twin brothers from Ottawa who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges last week had hatched a plan sneak out of Canada and travel overland to join ISIS in Syria, court documents reveal.
