The Changing Face of National Security, Cyber Threats – Part 2: Cybersecurity
When I last wrote about cybersecurity, I mostly focused how much damage could be done by attacks, and the WannaCry attack that caused chaos worldwide in May. However, several massive attacks have been uncovered since then: For example, Reuters recently revealed that critical infrastructure across Europe has been under constant [...]
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Mobility Rights, Part 1 – Introduction
From this week onwards, my blog will be moving on to cover a different right from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: the mobility rights within Section 6! The basic purpose of the mobility rights is simple- they allow Canadians to go wherever they wish without government interference. However, [...]
A Place to Call Home: The Plight of the Myanmar Rohingya – Part 10
When I look at the current plight of the Myanmar’s Rohingya people, I think of the name given to them by news outlets worldwide- the world’s most persecuted people. However, this name has become more appropriate than ever before over the last year: Ever since a small group of insurgents [...]
The Changing Face of National Security, Cyber Threats – Part 1
If critical infrastructure is Canada’s newest vulnerability to watch in the 21st century, then cyberattacks are Canada’s biggest threat to watch. The term cyberattack covers a large number of different threats related to computers. It describes anything from spyware which passively watches anything an infected computer does, to ransomware, which [...]
Women in the CAF – Sexual Misconduct and Operation Honour
While writing blogs on different aspects of national defence, I usually start with statistics to provide context about each topic. However, statistics cannot even begin to describe the horror of the sexual violence that plagues our military. Instead, I will quote Lise Gauthier, a woman who frequently dealt with sexual [...]
The Changing Face of National Security: Critical Infrastructure
With the 21st century, our way of viewing national security has changed. Discussions on national security are shifting to address a new vulnerability for Canada: our dependence on certain assets in our everyday lives! For example, we expect continuous use of electricity for our appliances and buildings, we need telecommunications [...]