Wesley Wark

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Wesley Wark
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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When We Should, and Shouldn’t, Revoke Citizenship 0
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- 30 septembre 2015
The long federal election campaign has been knocked off course at various stages by the unexpected: revelations from the Duffy trial; the accelerating Syrian refugee crisis; the niqab issue in citizenship ceremonies; and now, courtesy of Monday night’s Munk debate …
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Information Gap About Zehaf-Bibeau Threatens Security 0
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- 5 juin 2015
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, June 4, 2015

The release of several reports into the attack by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau on Parliament Hill last October reveal some missed opportunities to apprehend the shooter before he entered Parliament. The major lessons …
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Counterterrorism: Is it Working?0
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- 28 mai 2015
Published in the Globe and Mail, May 25, 2015

The Islamic State terrorist group now commands the greatest army of foreign mercenaries in modern history. Current estimates of its size range from 20,000 foreign fighters to a Central Intelligence …
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Getting the Balance Right on C-51 0
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- 30 mars 2015
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, March 30, 2015

The Liberal party announced its desired amendments to Bill C-51, the anti-terrorism legislation, last Thursday morning. The Liberals seized at least a temporary, first out of the gate, advantage in what …
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C-51 Has Sparked a Much-Needed Conversation About Security and Rights 0
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- 27 mars 2015
Published in the Globe and Mail, March 25, 2015

The best thing that might come out of Bill C-51, the government’s proposed new anti-terrorism legislation, will not be the bill itself, certainly not if it passes through the House …
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The Anti-Terrorism Legislation Has Likely Been Oversold 0
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- 29 janvier 2015
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, January 28, 2015

The Canadian government has been beating the drum about the need for new counter-terrorism powers since the October, 2014 terror attacks in Quebec and Ottawa. A legislative package is finally scheduled …
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French Intelligence to Blame?0
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- 14 janvier 2015
All terrorist outrages are inevitably followed by soul-searching and blame-seeking. Last week’s terrible events in France have followed the inevitable trajectory. While the French Republic’s security manhunt for the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket killings involved an …
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The Rise and Fall of Arthur Porter 0
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- 30 septembre 2014
Published in the National Post, September 29, 2014

Arthur Porter led a seemingly charmed life, which took him from the impoverished country of his birth, Sierra Leone, to elite Cambridge University, where he earned a medical degree. The young …
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Can Al Qaeda Compete With ISIL?0
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- 10 septembre 2014
By Archana Sundarachari and Wesley Wark

The world’s attention has been riveted for weeks on the military exploits and brutal excesses of a relatively new jihadist entity, the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS or IS). …
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Where’s the Megaphone on the Threat to Canada?0
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- 7 septembre 2014
Published in the Ottawa Citizen on September 6, 2014

The Conservative government has a strange way with public pronouncements on security issues. When it comes to the gravest of international crises, the government is prone to bold, headline-grabbing statements, whether …
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Spy Agency Watchdog Strikes a New Pose 0
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- 24 août 2014
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, August 23, 2014

The old adage in the spy business, when it came to publicity, was “no news is good news.” That ceased to pass democratic muster in Canada only in the mid-1980s and …
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Security Certificates Are Flawed Tools 0
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- 15 mai 2014
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, May 14, 2014

It was not a jailhouse door that slammed in Mohamed Harkat’s face this week, but something ultimately more definitive: a Supreme Court ruling. Harkat has lost a long legal battle that …
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