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How realistic it for Canada to expect to the victim of a terrorist attack? If we are target what should do to protect ourselves? This debate begins with a featured essay by Richard Hetu.
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Canada Under Attack: Story of a Foreseen Terrorby Richard Hétu
Toronto Star - La Presse, July 4, 2006
Since September 11, 2001, reliable sources have been repeating the warning: Canada, like any other industrialized Western country, is not sheltered from a wide-scale terrorist attack. And yet, for nearly 20 years we have been protected, day after day, by the grace of God, CSIS or luck. Unfortunately, this state of affairs came to an end this afternoon in the Montreal metro.
What a contrast between the images of the planes smashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre and the ones from July 5, 2020! By the end of the evening, the web had started broadcasting the attack, caught on “smart video” by the public transit system. Absolutely nothing explosive, just the cold determination to kill in large numbers, in my hometown. Read more...
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Background Information
The Star's Graham Fraser compares the responses of Spain and Britain to attacks by homegrown terrorists and ponders along which lines Canada's response to the thwarted plot might develop.
The CBCs In Depth reports on changes in US border policy
A detailed CBC account of the foiled Toronto bomb plot.
The Walrus examines how Toronto's white community seems to have thrown up its hands in the face of the recent spate of black-on-black gang violence in the city.







