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Wesley Wark: Post-9/11 fatigue sets in – Wesley Wark, security specialist at the University of Toronto. A next chapter written by law enforcement sounds a lot better to Canadian ears than one written by a CSIS driven into Stasi terrain
November 24, 2009 – 2:53 pm | No Comment
Wesley Wark: Post-9/11 fatigue sets in – Wesley Wark, security specialist at the University of Toronto.  A next chapter written by law enforcement sounds a lot better to Canadian ears than one written by a CSIS driven into Stasi terrain

By Wesley Wark
Canada’s front-line national security agencies have been subjected to enormous and unprecedented stresses and strains in the past eight years. The fault lines are starting to show.
Remember that scene in John le Carré’s …

TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL: Spy chief sings the blues
November 4, 2009 – 3:33 pm | No Comment
TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL: Spy chief sings the blues

TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL
Are Canadians soft on terror? In the eyes of the nation’s spy chief, Richard Fadden, there’s no doubt about it. The recently appointed director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service fairly sang the …

Standing up for who they are – Dave Merheje and Ali Rizvi’s cheekily named comedy show takes aim at stereotypes – By Bruce DeMara
May 22, 2009 – 8:37 am | No Comment
Standing up for who they are – Dave Merheje and Ali Rizvi’s cheekily named comedy show takes aim at stereotypes – By Bruce DeMara

By Bruce DeMara
They may aspire to be comic terrors. But terrorists, no, definitely not.
In fact, Dave Merheje and Ali Rizvi are born-and-raised Canadian lads with a similar issue: they don’t look like your archetypical Canadians …