Their thuggishness may qualify them as a “hate group” (so says the Southern Poverty Law Center) or as “a strain of American right-wing extremism” (so says the Anti-Defamation League). They may hold misogynistic, Islamophobic, antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and white supremacist views. Some may be violent criminals. But do their actions warrant the label of terrorist entity?
Terrorism is a bit like pornography: hard to define, easy to recognize. The government’s list provides a sickening catalogue of indisputably terroristic violence. Since 2015, the Islamic State alone has coordinated six attacks in Paris (killing 120), bombings in Brussels (killing thirty-one), the Manchester Arena suicide bombing (killing twenty-two), and vehicular rammings in the UK and Spain (killing at least twenty-seven). Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in 2014, uses children as suicide bombers, and racked up approximately 850 deaths in 2017. The list includes dozens of these murderous outfits, ma
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One of Canada's key national security oversight committees announced this morning it is launching a review of the federal policing mandate of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police a probe that comes as concerns mount about the force's ability to adequately police emerging threats.
âTheir owners or investors have absolutely no access to any data at these visa application centres and no IT infrastructure access,â he said. âVFS Global does not have any servers in China, where applicant data is stored.â
Brun said applicantsâ data was transferred via a fully encrypted private network tunnel managed by VFS Global. This data is then transferred to respective client government servers. âVFS Global welcomes this scrutiny,â Brun said. âIt is essential that client governments and visa applicants have full confidence in the integrity and security of their governmentâs programs and services.â
The former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Ward Elcock, told the