Counting Terrorism Charges and Prosecutions in Canada Part 2: Trends in Terrorism Charges

The Anti-Terrorism Act 2001 brought Part II.1 of the Criminal Code into being and with it, Canada’s terrorism offences. In the twenty years since that time, 62 individuals have been charged with terrorism offences by our counting. This blog post is not meant to be a comprehensive overview of the field. Instead, we set out merely to remind the reader of what constitutes a terrorism offence in Canada and then review some of the trends that we can see from the prosecuting and charging numbers to date.

Counting Terrorism Charges and Prosecutions in Canada Part 1: What does the data say?

This blog post is a medium for providing a series of tables that provide information on all terrorism cases and charges to date—a public release of information collected over the past five years that, I hope, will be of interest to students, lawyers, national security practitioners and academics. The tables strive to provide further information related to each of these cases, such as the specific offences charged, whether individuals were convicted or not, their sentences, and so on.

The Five Myths of the ISIS Repatriation Debate

The conventional wisdom about repatriating and prosecuting foreign fighters is wrong. Amar Amarasingam and Leah West explain why Canada has a moral duty to prosecute our foreign fighters, and why it is a realistic policy that Canada should pursue.

Proscribing Far Right Terrorism: Canada's new terrorist listing of two far right extremist groups

Last week Canada added five new groups to Canada’s terrorist entities list, but the big news was that two of these groups were far right terrorist groups. Why is this a big deal? Leah West walks through the implications of terrorist entity listing under Canada’s criminal law.

CSIS's Viewpoint: The Long Awaited Public Report

Friday, the government tabled the CSIS Public Report in the House, on the last day of this Parliament. This is the formerly annual report the Service releases which provides a small window into how they see the threat environment. There is also often a small section on how a particular section of the Service operates – this year there is a very small section on the Intelligence Cycle and the “going dark” problem for example. However, for the purpose of this blog, I’m going to mainly stick to the threat environment discussion.

In the newsStephanie CarvinJune 22, 2019CSIS, Cyber, Terrorism, Foreign influence, Espionage, SOEs, toppost

A Canadian Cryptocurrency Caper in the Sri Lanka Attack? Unlikely

In early May, media reports circulated stating that the Sri Lankan terrorist attacks in April 2019 had been “funded by Bitcoin” and that the transaction had been processed through a Canadian company. These reports are highly misleading, so let’s have a look at what actually happened and what it means for the Canadian financial sector and national security writ large.

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