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Extreme Crime in Canada: Nobody Fits the Profile Anymore
A shooting in a Montreal Jewish grocery store. A high-speed pursuit ending in gunfire in Calgary. An MP targeted in Saskatchewan. What links them isn't ideology, it's the moment after, when the internet fills the silence with certainty. Matt Gurney, writer and analyst at The Line, has spent a career covering political violence and says the old frameworks are breaking down.
For decades, counterterrorism operated around three coherent buckets: Islamist groups, far-right movements, and left-wing cells. Each had a recognizable profile. Gurney argues that profile no longer holds for a growing…
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