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A fine balance: Encouraging imagination, evaluating evidence
In the wake of 9/11, critics bemoaned the intelligence community’s failure of imagination. Greg Fyffe, executive director of the International...
Evolving the RCMP’s counterterrorism responsibility
It is almost a cliché to observe that law enforcement has had to change how it does business to ensure...
Adequate imagination? Anticipating future threats
In the past decade or so, and certainly since 9/11, most western intelligence services have shifted their attentions and resources...
Marshalling forces: Al-Qaeda revival requires local focus
Five years ago, 19 terrorists hijacked four airplanes and changed the course of history. Any doubts that the threat to...
Re-thinking intelligence analyst training
Canada has not had commissions of inquiry or reviews of analytic capability – nothing of the scale of our allies...
Masters of a new domain
“The structure of modern terrorist organizations in many ways is compatible with the structure of the internet…the means of communication...
Protecting Alberta’s critical energy infrastructure
With Osama bin Laden’s 2004 call for attacks on Arab oil and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent reminder to the...
Expanded responsibility: Private security post 9/11
Since 9/11, keeping stride with the urgent needs and rising expectations of public and private sector clients has required the...
A private solution to a humanitarian catastrophe
The three-year old Darfur crisis in western Sudan shows few signs of abating. NGOs estimate that approximately 400,000 have died...
Connecting data points: The National Risk Assessment Centre
“It is a massive amount of data to sift through,” Calvin Christiansen acknowledges after surveying a room of targeters, analysts...