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🚨 New Secure Line Episode 🚨 Is terrorism in Canada getting worse, or are we just getting better at catching it? Our latest episode dives into the numbers. @leahwest-nsl.bsky.social and I sit down with @stewglobal.bsky.social to talk all about terrorism in Canada! open.spotify.com/episode/4Fxy...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

I went to a tariff war and a hockey game broke out

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

I was so pumped to interview Ms. Tessier! Was a great talk. Hope you’ll check out the latest episode of Secure Line!

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It’s a Podmergency! After a whirlwind week we breakdown the law, the policy and the Nat sec implications of the drama that was the tariff showdown. youtu.be/QHXhE84BYzs?...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Episode 2 is out! I had to sit this one out for conflict purposes but I LOVED listening to the discussion. Give it a listen, like and follow!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

He is on a warpath against USAID, and the cruelty it will unleash is going to be immense. USAID provides emergency aid after natural disasters, tries to improve child health and nutrition, promotes good governance, funds literacy programs and programs that empower women, works on food security, etc.

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

For an informed explanation of the law check out this explainer by @cforcese.bsky.social craigforcese.substack.com/p/internatio...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI, the first episode of Secure Line dropped this week! Check it out and subscribe on Spotify, Apple and YouTube!

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Episode 1 of Secure Line is coming out soon! Here's a little teaser: Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube, or Apple iTunes: open.spotify.com/show/3p2sEFI...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Our first episode of Secure Line is live! This week we are joined by @justinling.ca and @thomasjuneau.bsky.social to discuss what Trump 2.0 means for Canadian national security. Check us out on Spotify, Apple or YouTube and subscribe if you dig it. open.spotify.com/episode/0Q31...

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

And so it begins. Have been struck these past months, mostly in the precedents set by a failure to restrain breaches of territorial integrity in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Israel & Yemen that the norm of territorial integrity as the basis of our contemporary legal order is fading. But … game on Panama.

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To those leaving the US public service today, especially my friends in the US NSIC, thank you for your service and dedication to making the US and the world a safer place.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

When the GOATs get together, you listen.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Excited to share the trailer for “Secure Line” a new podcast cohosted by @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social @jessmarindavis.bsky.social and me! First episode drops soon wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/show/3p2sEFI...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Schrödinger's Prorogation: Is Parliament prorogued if it has not been formally notified?

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

There's no such thing as an Interim or Temporary Prime Minister. The correct term is Pub Quiz Prime Minister.

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Canada-US Territorial Dispute in the Beaufort Sea craigforcese.substack.com/p/canada-us-...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

My kid has a Thomas the Tank Engine book with this plot….

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Yesterday, @garymarcus.bsky.social joined Matteo Carraba, @benjaminwittes.bsky.social and me to chat about the limits of generative AI and about neuro-symbolic AI, a potential path forward to get AI to actually fulfill its promises. Listen to our convo here: citetour.substack.com/p/ai-is-on-t...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The Governor General's power and authority is limited at the best of times. It's important to keep that in mind. She can encourage the PM to demonstrate he has confidence, but that assumes that he's willing to meet with her.

submitted 72 days ago • 8 comments

I can't decide if a) we live in a time of unprecedented information unreliability b) info was always this unreliable, but we're bombarded by so much of it now that it's easier to see c) info was always this unreliable, but the stakes were lower because most people had less range of action

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

I've said this before, but the fact that legal academia (especially at top schools) has significantly turned away from concern with doctrine—in helping judges figure out how to resolve hard cases—creates an opportunity for those lawprofs who want to have actual influence on how law develops.

submitted 90 days ago • 21 comments

Who wants to be next? www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

submitted 94 days ago • 37 comments

Interesting piece on the Baltic cable cuts (I agree the law of piracy could have some application, but disagree that it is as limited as the author suggests). lieber.westpoint.edu/baltic-sea-c...

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Happy 40th anniversary of Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America) - Questions of jurisdiction and/or admissibility - to everyone who celebrates.

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Hey new folks! Currently staff on the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference so commentary limited atm. Will be back with some exciting content alongside @jessmarindavis.bsky.social and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social in 2025.

submitted 100 days ago • 4 comments

This is a useful thread of states' reactions to the ICC's decision to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant along with one Hamas leader (the other two have been confirmed dead).

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Earlier this week the Intelligence Commissioner (IC) appeared in Bill C-26, along with federal Privacy Commissioner. The bill is intended to enhance the #cybersecurity requirements that #criticalinfrastructure providers must adopt. The IC’s remarks are now public: www.canada.ca/en/intellige...

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Can confirm.

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On a train full of Swifties headed to Toronto for what I anticipate to be the greatest night of my life.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander bbc.com/news/article...

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In my last op-ed of the year, @leahwest-nsl.bsky.social , @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social and I have a clear call to action: get GAC executives in front of a parliamentary committee to explain how they've addressed the serious concerns raised in the NSIRA report about the GSRP program.

submitted 436 days ago • 0 comments

New by Wendy Gillis, with comment from @leahwest-nsl.bsky.social and myself. The making of a white-nationalist murderer. Why Nathaniel Veltman is a ‘wake-up call’ for Canada www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

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Wrote a short post on Australia’s new Independent Intelligence Review, making the argument that it would have been better to appoint one former insider and one outsider, rather than two former insiders: andrewzammit.org/2023/09/25/o... It also outlines Australia’s history of these reviews.

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Pups are excited about back to school!

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Big shift in Germany’s approach to Huawei, following US semiconductor embargoes. “Irrespective of the costs to operators such as Deutsche Telekom, any components that were found to exhibit security issues would need to be disconnected” per Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior.

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“The internal memos that describe the idea were obtained recently through an access to information request filed more than 3½ years ago.”

submitted 558 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating view into a process very few of us get to see. Putting on my risk hat, some of the proposed terms would make it very difficult for TikTok to properly assess and manage some of its risks, or have confidence in their compliance posture. I don't envy the team tasked with those jobs.

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“The false narratives about Mr. Chong violated WeChat’s user code of conduct; however, RRM Canada found no indication that the platform applied its own content moderation standards.”

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